Book Sharing for 060212

Name	Author (Year) Title	Message	Question	Answer
Chan, Stephen	Philip Yancy (1997): What’s So Amazing about Grace	Grace is the best gift that the church could give to this world.	What is so special about Grace?	It is the only solution to break the chain of unlovely relationship.
Lee, Agnes	Lee Strobel (2000), The Case for Christ	There is credible evidence that Jesus of Nazareth is really the Son of God.	(1) Can the biographies of Jesus be trusted? (2) Do the biographies of Jesus stand up to scrutiny? (3) Were Jesus’ biographics reliably preserved for us?	(1) For every major theme in John, we can find parallels in Matthew, Mark and Luke. (2) The Bible passes 8 different evidential tests to determine its reliability. (3) We could still reproduce the contents of the New Testament from the multiplicity of quotations in commentaries, sermons and letters of the early church fathers.
Zia, Karl	倪柝聲 (1938, reprinted 1998): 坐‧行‧站	To act in God’s favour and to stand against our spiritual foes, we ought to remember our identity in God’s kingdom and our root of power: that Jesus has already claimed victory.	How do we act with God’s power on our side?	(1) Understand God’s will; (2) Make sure our work is out of God’s will, not ours; (3) Always depend on God, not our talent; (4) The outcome of our work should be glorifying God.
Tong, Johnny	Tim Smith (2003): The Seven Cries of Today’s Teens: Hear Their Hearts, Make the Connection	A Cry for Trust, Love and Security	Why don’t our kids feel loved?	There are keys for love, and we have to use the right key to unlock our kids’ heart. (We have to express love in a way that our kids would accept.) Seven love keys for teens: Time, commitment, touch, mission, words, gifts and support.
Lam, Irene	Beth Moore, Sandra D. Wilson, Kathleen Hart, David Hager, Thelma Wells & Beverly LaHaye (2003): A Woman and Her God	A woman’s role is “Ministering like Jesus”	What is the role of a woman?	(1) to reach women, we have to understand their culture (2) to minister to the lost (women) by starting right where you are.
Fan, Anita	Peter Kreeft (??): Between Heaven and Hell	Viewpoints on hell and Christ by 3 famous persons: JF Kennedy, CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley. The book is both humorous and insightful. It is easy to read but the message conveyed and the arguments depicted are profound!	What do these 3 persons have in common and how do they differ?	They all died on Nov 22, 1963 and the book is about an imaginative conversation between these three characters in a place between heaven and hell on the day when they died. JF Kennedy represents a humanist; CS Lewis represents a theist; Aldous Huxley represents a pantheist. They discuss and debate issues on existence of “hell”, authority and “Christ as divine” etc in their conversation.
Tong, Ivy	John Piper (2003): Don’t Waste Your Life	To encourage readers to live with a passion for God, so that their lives will not be wasted.	How can we live without wasting our lives?	(1) To live with a single passion for God – to display God’s supreme excellence in all the spheres of our lives. (2) Don’t be afraid of taking risk because “better to lose your life than to waste it”.
Lam, Ernest	Philip Yancey (1995): The Jesus I never knew	Not only did Jesus choose a race, he also chose a time and a place in which to be born.	What about the first century made it the right time to ease God into the world?	The author did not directly answer the question, but through this question the author has make us aware of how we should read the Gospels. Instead of being a spectator reader, we should try to project ourselves into those times when reading the Gospels.
Chan, Agnes	李德爾著,胡問憲譯 (1966, 1968): 把別人介紹給主 By Paul E. Little, tr. Job Hu (1966, 1968): How to Give Away Your Faith	傳福音是每個信徒的責任和使命。正確的信仰基礎, 充足的準備和有效的方法能幫助我們有效地把別人介紹給主。	作見證有那些基本的原則?	(1) 普通來往 (2) 建立共同的興趣 (3) 引起興趣 (4) 不可過份 (5) 切勿定人的罪 (6) 保持主題 (7) 直接到祂跟前來。
Lo, Oscar	Henry Blackaby, Claude V. King (??): Fresh Encounter	If we want to have a fresh encounter with God, the first step is to reflect on ourselves and honestly ask “Have I been born again by the spirit of God?”	Have you been born again by the spirit of God? What evidence do you have?	Old Life (Gal. 5:19-21, Rom. 8:5, 7-8) versus New Life (Gal. 5:22-24, Rom. 8:9-10)
Lee, Philip	Wes Haystead (1995): The 3,000-Year-Old Guide To Parenting (智慧的父母)	Learning the topic of parenting from the book of Proverbs. It is a 3,000-Year-Old book, and the principles are still applicable today with great insight.	Do you want your children to have the eternal value?	Let the 3,000-Year-Old wisdom to transform your life, and pass it on.