The Ties That Bind: Books that Rick Warren's Saddleback Recommends

Saddleback Community's recommended reading for "Spiritual Formation" (Emergentspeak):

The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren

God's Power to Change Your Life by Rick Warren

Renovation of the Heart by Dallas Willard

The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning

Abba's Child by Brennan Manning

How People Grow by Henry Could and John Townsend

Chasing Daylight by Erwin McManus

Seeds of Hope by Henri Nouwen

Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire by Jim Cymbala

What's So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey

The Journey of Desire by John Eldrege

Sacred Pathways by Gary Thomas

Sacred Romance by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge


Unbiblical authors for an unbiblical church. Purpose Driven via Emergent. Error upon Error.

A.W. Pink said in part:

"Take heed what you hear" and read! More than forty years ago the saintly Adolph Saphir wrote, "I think the fewer books we read—the better. It is like times of cholera, when we should only drink filtered water." What would he say if he were on earth today and glanced over the deadly poison sent forth by the heterodox, and the lifeless rubbish put out by the orthodox? Christian reader, if you value the health of your soul, cease hearing and quit reading all that is lifeless, unctionless, powerless, no matter what prominent or popular name be attached thereto. Life is too short to waste valuable time on that which does not profit. Ninety-nine out of every hundred of the religious books, booklets, and magazines now being published, are not worth the paper on which they are printed!

To turn away from the lifeless preachers and publishers of the day—may involve a real cross. Your motives will be misconstrued, your words perverted, and your actions misinterpreted. The sharp arrows of false report will be directed against you. You will be called proud and self-righteous, because you refuse to fellowship empty professors. You will be termed censorious and bitter—if you condemn in plain speech—the subtle delusions of Satan. You will be dubbed narrow-minded and uncharitable, because you refuse to join in singing the praises of the "great" and "popular" men of the day. More and more, you will be made to painfully realize—that the path which leads unto eternal life is "narrow" and that FEW there are who find it. May the Lord be pleased to grant unto each of us—the hearing ear and obedient heart! "Take heed what you hear" and read!

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