Why I am a Christian

Refreshing

WHY I AM A CHRISTIAN
By Kent Philpott
Evangelical Press. 127 pages. £7.95
ISBN 0 85234 501 1

Kent Philpott is a pastor of a church in California, where he has a prison ministry and is involved in coaching a baseball team. After 30 years in the ministry, he came to a completely God-centred view of life. This book is a refreshing expression of biblical truths through his own personal experiences.

The first chapter is a long one. Here the author describes why he is a Christian. All subsequent chapters are concise and deal with problems and questions that we all face today. Some of the subjects dealt with include how sin is not accurately diagnosed in people's lives, the fact that hell cannot be ignored and should space exploration really affect our faith. I liked the chapter entitled 'The big gamble'. In a lottery society, people are spending money where the chances of winning are stacked highly against them and the challenge of this chapter is to ask whether you want to gamble your life on the premise that death is final.

The closing chapters help the reader to understand how a person becomes a follower of Christ. This is not a step by step approach of what a person has to do. Rather, it sets out the mystery of the work of God through his Spirit and the effect on the person it touches.

Kent Philpott has been able to articulate, in a straightforward way, the Christian faith and how to look upon a range of subjects through the eyes of that faith. It is not a treatise to cover all subjects, but a book that the ordinary disciple of Christ, struggling in today's world, can enjoy and which will warm his heart. The book has great value for the seeker and the sceptic as well.

Maciek Stolarski,
Southport

© Evangelicals Now - July 2003
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Main Articles

• Preachers: coming or going?
  Why ministers are going to North America and why they should think of staying
• Lost sheep
  Peter Grainger of Charlotte Chapel, Edinburgh, asks a rhetorical question
• Much prayer, much power
• Archbishop Rowan Williams and NEAC 4
• Refocusing your marriage
  What is at the top of your agenda?
• My family?
• AIDS across the world: a Christian response
• Jonathan Edwards on beauty
• Monthly column on hymns and songs
  Sing when you're winning?
• Monthly column on the arts
  Art and agony: and a sunlit cross
• Monthly column for youth leaders
  Role models
• Don't date a corpse
• Letter from America
  Over-kill
• Monthly column on student work
  Growing a Christian Union

Other articles

• The Eagle handbook of Bible prayers
• Insight into anguish
• Insight into anguish
• The Matrix Reloaded
• Aaraadhanaa Ho (We worship you)
• How to pray when life hurts
• The re-enchantment of nature
• The beginnings of English Protestantism
• John Owen: the man and his theology
• The gospel according to Ruth
• Firm foundations
• Warning signs - Jonah
• Faith, health and prosperity - A report on 'Word of Faith' and 'Positive Confession' theologies
• The Old Testament explained and applied
• Let's study John
• Luther's Rose
• If I were God, I'd make myself clearer
• Studies in English Dissent
• The how and why of love - An introduction to evangelical ethics
• Why I am a Christian
• A sacred task - A true story from Albania's national awakening
• To all the saints of God
• An irregular candidate - Jackie Ross of Blythswood
• Travel with William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
• Constrained by his love - A new biography of Robert Murray McCheyne
• The covenant of grace - Previously published sermons of Matthew Henry
• The tears of my soul