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Early Review–Counterfeit Gospels

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Book Description   The biblical gospel is like a three-legged stool: a story that climaxes with an announcement which births a community.  Deny one or more of these components and you have a counterfeit. Counterfeit Gospels exposes six common versions of the "good news" that fail to do justice to the biblical portrait and thus leave us impoverished rather than empowered for ministry. By exposing the counterfeits and explaining the biblical gospel, this book will help Christians gain clarity on the gospel and challenge them to accept no substitutes. Book Review   Just as passing counterfeit currency around can undermine a government, passing around counterfeit gospels can undermine Christianity. Trevin goes on to explain the three prongs of the gospel and how to truly understand the true gospel.  He points towards Biblical references to show how certain gospels that people take as being true are in fact counterfeit gospels.  And he shows us how to find the truth.

Early Review- Dare To Be Different

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Book Description   Decisions, decisions! How is a girl supposed to choose? Lessons of right and wrong are put to the test in the Scenarios series, where you can test your decision-making abilities in an eye-opening, but safe, way. Each book follows a character up to the point where she has to make an important, life-changing decision—then it’s your turn to choose. Will your choices lead to a happy ending? [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW13j07rGDM&fs=1&hl=en_GB&rel=0]   Book Review   Both of these stories had been previously published as separate books.   They are geared towards tween in the hopes that it will help them to develop the ability to make the right decisions in tough situations. At first when I heard interactive fiction, my mind flashed back to the Choose Your Own Adventure series of the 1980s.  This book wasn’t as interactive as that.  It was more like choose your own ending.  Bit it worked for these stories. The stories are about fr