Reasonable Faith: The Scientific Case for Christianity

by Dr. Jay Wile

Great, short book written by a Ph.d. in nuclear chemistry. A Christian view of the science you learned in school in just 100 pages. Also, if Evidence that Demands A Verdict is too daunting, this highlights some of that book. The last chapter also explains why so many scientists are not Christians.

Find it here.

Knowing God

"...while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self.  And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred -- like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope."   C.S. Lewis

Does any Bible verse come to mind?

"Social Morality"

My sister made this Christmas ornament for us.  She gives us one every year.

"I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God:  and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey Him.  And so, as I warned you, you are driven on to something more inward --- driven on from social matters to religious matters.  For the longest way around is the shortest way home."  

Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis

Who can repent?

"Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good  person can repent perfectly.  The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it.  The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person -- and he would not need it."  C.S. Lewis

Confusing Bible Teaching

"Satan's ends could be gained in no better way than to promote some statement of truth that misses the vital issues, or establishes positive error, and thus hinders the right understanding of the divinely provided source of blessing."

Lewis Sperry Chafer, He That is Spiritual, 1918

Francis Schaeffer on Assurance

"The Bible makes it plain that the man who is a Christian has a right to know that he is saved; it is one of the good gifts of God, to know truly that he is a Christian. This refers not only to the initial fact, after one has accepted Christ as Savior, but also applies in those great, crushing moments in our lives when the waves get so high that it seems, psychologically or spiritually, that we can never find our footing again. At such a moment, a Christian can have assurance. His salvation rests on the finished work of Christ, whether he accepts the peace he should have or not, and he can have assurance to the extent to which he believes the promises of God at that moment."

Francis Schaeffer

True Spirituality, 1971