Your Best Life Now Book of Martyrs
Christianity Today recently compiled the Top 50 Books That Have Shaped Evangelicals, leading to the inevitable Purgatorio parody: 50 Potential Christian Bestsellers. Here are some of my favorites, but nearly the entire list is hilarious.
1. Your Best Life Now Book of MartyrsI would like to add a few of my own:
3. 40 or so Days more-or-less of Purpose
12. Pretty Good People in the Hands of an Ambivalent God
39. What on Earth Am I Here For and Why On Earth Do I Keep Asking Myself these Questions?
50. Capitulating: Unveiling the Mystery of Keeping Your Wife from Getting Mad at You When You Want to Run Around and Do “Wild at Heart” Kind of Guy Stuff
The Scandal of the Evangelical Emotions - How Emotions Replaced Reason in Evaluating the Claims of ChristGot any more good ones, anybody?
Harry Potter: Witchcraft Repackaged - C. S. Lewis
Hugh Ross On Trial
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Ken Ham On Trial
That Past Darkness - How the World Is Getting Better
Your Best Book Now - How to Stay on the New York Times Bestseller List Without Writing Anything Substantive
The Late Great Christian Intellectual
Dare to Catechize
Know Why You’re Pretty Sure You Think You Believe
The Genesis Code - An Ancient Code Reveals the Fossil Record Was Created By Satan to Discount Genesis
The Cost of Church Membership
Basic Supralapsarianism
Evidence That Demands a Rejection of All Alcoholic Beverages
Mere Postmodernist Emergent Open Theology
posted by Jeffrey J. Stables at 11:09 PM
3 Comments:
Lampoon... gotta love it.
I did a Tim Challies-inspired piece last year titled "Books You'll Never Read":
* Never Read a Bible Verse, by Bruce Wilkinson
* The Purpose-Driven Emergent Church, by Brian McLaren
* I Made It All Up, by Dan Brown
* The Power of a Praying Christian Book Publisher, (anonymous)
* A Novel Approach to Christianity, by J.I. Packer
* Omnitemporality for Dummies, by William Lane Craig
* This Old Earth, by Jonathan Sarfati
* Whatever, by J.P. Moreland
* Chicken Soup for the Postmodern Soul, by Nancy Pearcey
* Mere Banality, by C.S. Lewis
* How to Keep Spiritual Things in Their Proper Place, by Francis A. Schaeffer
Found a priceless specimen among the comments on Purgatorio:
Open Theism: God Never Saw It Coming, Clark Pinnock
This one was added recently:
Joel Osteen: Enjoy your best life now (because the next one you'll spend suffering in hell)
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