Posts by Kyle Lewis (Page 3)

Posts by Kyle Lewis (Page 3)

One Bad Reason To Wait To Have Sex Until Marriage

Does “saving yourself” for marriage mean you will have an amazing sex life? A few years ago, after I preached on a biblical view of sex, someone came up to me and said, “Wow! I felt like I was in youth group again.” I wasn’t sure if that was good or bad, but I smiled and continued on, saying hi to people. I later learned that he was implying that was bad. It was as if he was saying, “Thanks…

July 2022 Reading Challenge

July 2022 Reading Challenge Becoming Elisabeth Elliot by Ellen Vaughn 322 pages Biography Amazon Link (Available as a print, ebook, and audiobook)   Book Summary From Amazon: Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a violent Amazonian tribe savagely speared her husband Jim and his four colleagues. Incredibly, prayerfully, Elisabeth took her toddler daughter, snakebite kit, Bible, and journal . . . and lived in the jungle with the Stone-Age people who killed her husband. Compelled by her…

Ask The Pastor: Do Pets Go To Heaven?

Question: Do Pets (Animals) Go To Heaven? Answer: If you know me at all, you know I am not exactly a big dog person. I do like cats and I have also grown fond of my silkie chickens, perhaps because they remind me of cats 🙂 But I do recognize that many of you out there love dogs and other animals and have likely thought at some point, “Will my dog go to heaven? Will my pet hamster go heaven? Will…

June 2022 Reading Challenge

June Reading Challenge A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World by Paul E. Miller 304 pages Christian Living/Theology Amazon Link (Available as a print, ebook, and audiobook)   Book Summary From Amazon: More than 300,000 copies sold! Now updated and expanded! Prayer is hard. Often, unless circumstances demand it―such as an illness or saying grace before a meal―most of us simply do not pray. This kind of prayerlessness can leave us with a distressed spirit and practical…

May 2022 Reading Challenge

May Reading Challenge George Whitefield: God’s Anointed Servant in the Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century by Arnold Dallimore 224 pages Biography Amazon Link (Available as a print, ebook, and audiobook)   Book Summary From Amazon: God’s accomplishments through George Whitefield are to this day virtually unparalleled. In an era when many ministers were timid and apologetic in their preaching, he preached the gospel with zeal and undaunted courage. In the wake of his fearless preaching, revival swept across the British Isles,…

The Dawkins Delusion

Richard Dawkins is an atheist who wrote a well-known book called, “The God Delusion” back in 2006. The book seeks to, “make a case that belief in God is not just wrong but potentially deadly” (from the Amazon description). I am currently working through the book for the first time. While I do not consider myself a great philosopher and I have no doubt that Dawkins is intellectually much smarter than me (I am obviously more handsome though), I am…

April 2022 Reading Challenge

April Reading Challenge Is God A Moral Monster by Paul Copan 256 pages Theology Amazon Link (Available as a print, ebook, and audiobook)   Book Summary From Amazon: A recent string of popular-level books written by the New Atheists have leveled the accusation that the God of the Old Testament is nothing but a bully, a murderer, and a cosmic child abuser. This viewpoint is even making inroads into the church. How are Christians to respond to such accusations? And how are…

March 2022 Reading Challenge

March Reading Challenge God’s Smuggler by Brother Andrew 257 pages Missionary Biography Amazon Link (Available as a print, ebook, and audiobook)   Book Summary From Amazon: A True-Life Thriller That Will Leave You Breathless! In the anniversary edition of this electrifying real-life story, readers are gripped from the first page by the harrowing account of a young man who risked his life to smuggle Bibles through the borders of closed nations. Now, sixty years after Brother Andrew first prayed for…

February 2022 Reading Challenge

february Reading Challenge Tactics, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions by Gregory Koukl 288 pages Apologetics Amazon Link (Available as a print, ebook, and audiobook) Book Summary From Amazon: This expanded anniversary edition includes updates and expansions of existing tactics, as well as the addition of an all-new tactic and a chapter on Mini Tactics filled with simple maneuvers to aid in discussions. In a world increasingly indifferent to Christian truth, followers of Christ need to be…

January 2022 Reading Challenge

January Reading Challenge Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery by Eric Metaxas 309 pages Biography Amazon Link Book Summary From Amazon: Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce’s extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, a battle Wilberforce…