DeWayne Hamby
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The Church of Facebook
By Jesse Rice | David C. Cook | softcover | 240 pages | $12.99 The social networking site that has exploded in popularity is the subject of Jesse Rice's The Church of Facebook: How the Hyperconnected Are Redefining Community. The author calls attention to the way the online world is reshaping "community" by focusing on…
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Surrogates
Touchstone Pictures | Starring Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, James Cromwell, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike | Rated PG-13 At what point does technology begin to replace the real human experience? Perhaps I'm the wrong person to ask, being the Facebook junkie, Twitter-holic and Wii Sports lover that I am. In Surrogates, the latest in a long…
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Bruce Wilkinson Offers Keys for a Life of Miracles
Bruce Wilkinson, author of the mega best-seller The Prayer of Jabez, believes in miracles and explains how Christians can see them happen today in You Were Born for This: Seven Keys to a Life of Predictable Miracles. According to Wilkinson, his latest book is the "flip side" of The Prayer of Jabez, which detailed praying…
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Shaken Not Shattered
By Matthew Hagee | Charisma House | softcover | 240 pages | $14.99 Matthew Hagee, son of author and pastor John Hagee, delivers a heartfelt challenge in his debut book, Shaken Not Shattered. As the executive pastor of his father's Cornerstone Church in San Antonio and host of his own TV program, Hagee has a…
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Evangelism Today
By Scott Dawson and Scott Lenning | Baker Books | softcover | 192 pages | $14.99 Placing the Great Commission front and center, Scott Dawson, an evangelist and missionary, teams with Scott Lenning to present Evangelism Today: Effectively Sharing the Gospel in a Rapidly Changing World. The pair share the results of five years and…
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Into the Light
By Phil Stacey | Reunion Records Phil Stacey's Christian label debut, Into the Light, brings the artist full circle from his early days of singing gospel music before gaining national prominence as a top-five finalist on the sixth season of American Idol.
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Hinn Examines Jew-Muslim Conflict in New Book
Television evangelist and author Benny Hinn documents his unique perspective of Middle Eastern world affairs in the new release Blood in the Sand. The book—Hinn's first major release in several years—centers on the cultural war between Muslims and Jews for control of Israel and how it affects the rest of the world. "I have spent…
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Mark Steele: Getting Back to Jesus
Mark Steele, an author and the president of movie company Steelehouse Productions, discusses lessons gleaned from his own Christian journey in Christianish: What If We're Not Really Following Jesus At All? (David C. Cook). With a background that includes stand-up comedy rather than theology, the author uses humor to illustrate his topics, such as Christians…
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Casting Crowns’ Frontman Offers Spiritual Checkup
Mark Hall, lead singer and songwriter for the music group Casting Crowns, presents a message of responsibility in his book, Your Own Jesus (Zondervan). Hall (pictured), a veteran youth worker and speaker, and co-author Tim Luke challenge readers to resist the tendency to survive on the faith of others and encourage them instead to develop…
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Blood in the Sand
By Benny Hinn | FrontLine | softcover |256 pages | $15.99 Television evangelist and author Benny Hinn documents his unique perspective of Middle Eastern world affairs in the new release Blood in the Sand. The book—Hinn's first major release in several years—centers on the cultural war between Muslims and Jews for control of Israel and…
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The Lost Commandment
By Dave Greber | Kregel Publications | softcover | 256 pages | $13.99 During the Last Supper, Jesus told His disciples He was giving them a new commandment: "As I have loved you, so you must love one another" (John 13:34). This instruction provides the basis for Dave Greber's The Lost Commandment: Have We Missed…
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Bruce Miller: A Balanced Life Is ‘Unbiblical’
Bruce Miller, founder and senior pastor of McKinney Christian Fellowship in McKinney, Texas, tackles stressful living in a new way with Your Life in Rhythm (Tyndale House Publishers). Miller offers a new way of living—coordinating a person's life strategies to coincide with different points in life—and rejects the typical idea and constraints of balance. "The…
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Religions of the Stars
By Richard Abanes | Bethany House Publishers | softcover | 224 pages | $13.99 Richard Abanes—whose recent A New Earth, an Old Deception tackled the errors of Eckhart Tolle's New Age manifesto, A New Earth—broadens his focus on the religious influences espoused by Hollywood's elite with his latest book, Religions of the Stars: What Hollywood…
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At World’s End: A Review of ‘Knowing’
Summit Entertainment | Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Lara Robinson, Ben Mendelsohn | Rated PG-13 If the world were ending, where would your faith lie? That's a question John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) wrestles with in the science fiction thriller Knowing. When his son becomes the recipient of a page of a strangely scrawled numbers…
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Push
Summitt Entertainment | Starring Djimon Hounsou, Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans, Camilla Belle | Rated PG-13 I don't have long before they come, so you're going to have to listen carefully and pay close attention. The powerful underground group behind the supernatural action movie Push are hot on my trail and using their powers to coerce…