John Dickson has sure come a long way since he started a band to spread the news of Jesus to the people of Sydney. In the time that I spent away from the church he has gone from being a pastor of an inner city Sydney church to becoming an associate professor in ancient history and he has moved from ...
Having written some books on why one should be a Christian and who Jesus really is I guess Dickson saw the need to actually write a book not simply on living as a Christian, but surviving what may be quite a tough walk. I have recently read some reports on a website called cultwatch about certain sp...
The one thing that I really liked about this book was that despite it being written by a Christian, it was incredibly objective (though it is difficult to be objective with Christianity when one is a Christian). A lot of books on religions that I have read, that have been written by Christians, tend...
I guess when I saw a copy of this book in Koorong I was intrigued to see how the Moore College boys understood the book of Revelation. There seems to be a lot of writing from a pre-millenialist point of view, but nothing all that much from post and amillenialist points of views. I will discuss a cou...
One could be forgiven thinking that this is an autobiography about John Dickson. He started off his career when as a teenager he became a Christian, and then got some friends together and started a rock band. The problem was that none of them actually knew how to play instruments, so they learned, a...
Certainly worth reading, although I can't make much sense of the new title. (It was first published as 'Promoting the Gospel', which fit the content perfectly.) The book drives us back to see what the Bible says about the gospel's spread. I didn't agree with all, but loved Dickson's insistence that ...
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