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Julia Monroe Begins Again and Another Gospel? books side by side on wooden table

I'm delighted to have received a new ARC for this week from Bethany House Publishers, and look forward to diving in—thank you! What a fun Friday I will have 😊

📘 Christian fiction: Julia Monroe Begins Again by Rebekah Millet
📗 Christian non-fiction: Another Gospel? A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity by Alisa Childers

Confession time: I love reading Christian apologetics, and have been listening to Alisa Childers' podcast for a number of years now. I've been meaning to get into her book, especially since she has a newer one out now called Live Your Truth and Other Lies. When I was in Bible college and seminary, I always gravitated toward systematic theology, so getting to read these types of books fills that interest for me. My desire is to live up to the words in 2 Timothy 2:15:

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. (KJV)

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth. (NIV)

It's funny that I memorized the second half of this verse in the KJV translation, considering that I normally read the NIV translation. There is something poetic about "rightly dividing" that has me picturing a fine dissection of God's Word, delving in and being precise with it, as we study God's truth.

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