Saturday, September 04, 2004

A Couple of Recommendations

A book and a movie. Both are highly recommended:

Sinners in the Hands of a Good God: Reconciling Divine Judgment and Mercy by David Clotfelter.
Not yet published. Everyone should read this book. It it simply superb. If someone were to ask me to recommend one book on divine wrath, judgment, and mercy, this is the book I'd give them.

To End All Wars
Based on Ernest Gordon's true story of his experiences in a Japanese P.O.W. camp during World War II. The screenwriter is Brian Godawa, author of Hollywood Worldviews. Godawa is in the Reformed theological camp, and has done an excellent job in taking Gordon's thought-diary and turning it into a moving, coherent plot that focuses upon redemption and forgiveness.