Bully Pulpit: Best Seller Sell-outs

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2015

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Take a gander with Carl, Aimee, and Todd as they browse today's Christian Best-Sellers list. Discerning worthwhile reads from sentimental fluff, they look for theological substance but the pickin's are slim. With the casual aside, this is a courageous conversation to address a serious question: Why do so many Christian women read garbage? And if the allure of weak theology is so great, should pastors go on book patrol? Being our token female (and honorary man), Aimee has plenty to say. Of course, Carl has another question for our Fair Lady that really gets her goat...If you have found this Bully Pulpit helpful you will enjoy Understanding God's Will by Derek Thomas, a free audio download from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. You can find your free gift on Reformed Resources.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Mortification of Spin, bully pulpit, a casual conversation about things that count
0:24.2	with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird. Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from
0:31.2	The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Christians buy a lot of books, but they're not all great.
0:39.8	Today, the Spin team takes a look at the Christian bestsellers list and talks about the importance of reading quality books. At the end of
0:45.6	the podcast, we'll tell you how to download a free MP3 from the Alliance. Well, it's a new year, and one of the things we like to do is recommend books to our faithful listeners.
1:05.0	Always plenty of great stuff to read out there.
1:07.5	Now, I was looking at one that I think Amy and Carl might be particularly
1:11.9	interested in. As I was looking at the Christian bestseller list online, I saw this one
1:17.7	particular book called The Circle Maker, praying circles around your biggest dreams and greatest
1:22.9	fears by Mark Batterson. Do you ever sense that there's far more to prayer and to God's vision for your life than
1:30.3	you're experiencing?
1:32.3	Then it's time you learned from the legend of Honey, the circle maker, a man bold enough to draw
1:38.3	a circle in the sand and not budge from it, from inside it, until God answered his prayers for his people. What impossibly big dream is God
1:46.7	calling you to draw a circle, a prayer circle around? So, I mean, that hooks me right off the bat.
1:53.7	And I can already envision all kinds of products to go along with that, like the circle maker
1:58.5	pin or a circle maker stick to actually like circle
2:03.2	in the sand.
2:04.1	I mean, there's all kinds of things we could do.
2:05.6	A circle maker prayer shawl, a circle maker, um, showfar, maybe something like that.
2:13.5	The Belinda Carlisle song, Circle in the Sand.
2:16.2	Nice.
2:16.7	Nice. Nice.
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