Distinctives: daring to be different in an indifferent world

Distinctives: daring to be different in an indifferent world
By Vaughan Roberts
OM Publishing. 157 pages. £5.99

Here is a book that refreshes. If you need something to keep your eyes on your heavenly hope in the midst of a world that demands that we stay focussed on the here and now, then take up and read this little volume.

Taken from what appear to be a series of sermons, the chapters of this book deal with how to respond to seven key issues in today's culture. These include our need for a heavenly perspective in a world obsessed with the moment; what real contentment is in an insatiable culture; and what Christian service is about in a world where Gloria Gaynor's 'I will survive' has become a Karaoke anthem for thousands.

What is useful about this little book is how it mixes real scriptural truth with a light, witty touch. And there are a liberal smattering of very memorable stories(preaching magpies take note).

Throughout the different issues, the question that is returned to is this: do we as Christians in a post-Christian environment dare to be different? I hope that we do. Vaughan Robert's book exhorts us to pursue that goal.

Oliver D. Crisp,
Guildford

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Main Articles

• Progress for the poor
  Jubilee 2000 and debt relief
• Hyper-separatism - no way forward
  The third article of three by Jonathan Stephen, Brian Edwards and John Rosser looking at a serious hindrance to evangelical unity (Part III)
• Caring for ex-offenders
  What can we do to help Christian prisoners when they come out?
• Rwanda: where is God when bad things happen?
  Why does God not intervene to stop suffering and slaughter?
• Books and 'the Book'
  The Bible versus books on the Bible!
• My hiding place
  Khalda tells the story of how God became her 'hiding place'
• Musical discord
  An introduction to the history of church controversies over hymns
• God: born in the USA?
  Reflections on America and the 'open' view of God
• Monthly column on the arts: brushes with entertainment
  Watercolour painting programmes - and others
• Monthly column for youth leaders
  Young people - the church of today, not tomorrow
• Monthly column on hymns and songs
  'Sing to the Lord', a hymn book supplement for St Paul's Cathedral
• 2001 - a Grace odyssey
  Joy Horn reminds us of the major Christian anniversaries this year

Other articles

• All that you can't leave behind - Album review
• Distinctives: daring to be different in an indifferent world
• WoW 2001 Various Artists - CD review
• The Power of Speaking God's Word: How to preach memorable sermons
• Wonder Boys - Film review
• The Quest for Celtic Christianity
• Jesus and His Relationships - The 1998 Easneye Lecture series delivered at All Nations Christian College
• Living by God's Master Plan
• The Legacy of Sovereign Joy
• Losing Faith in the BBC - An expanded version of a report presented to the General Synod of the Church of England in November 1999
• Lethal Harvest - A novel which helps to explain what stem cell and embryo research involve
• Exodus - A competent, readable and conservative explanation of the Book of Exodus
• Six Modern Myths - Science - or fiction?
• The Evangelism Handbook - Gaining the whole world without losing your soul
• A Panorama of the Bible Lands - The sequel to 'A Panorama of the Holy Land' - by Stephen Sizer & Jon Arnold
• Can God Use Me?
• Anger, Mercy and the Heart of God
• One Step at a Time - The sequel to 'Dancer Off Her Feet'