This is our first book giveaway, so we are hoping that this month will be the start of a wonderful new feature to our online apologetic ministry.

For more information about how to enter, please go here.

Our plan it to giveaway a new book every few weeks for several weeks to come… maybe till the end of the year! So please come back and keep trying if you don’t win this time.

This giveaway starts today, June 9, 2008, and will end in three weeks time on Tuesday, July 1, 2008. I will contact the winner via E-mail to retrieve mailing information.

Here is the book we are giving away for our first contest:

Here is the information about the book from its back cover:

We are living in a time when you can believe anything, as long as you do not claim it to be true. In the name of “tolerance,” our postmodern culture embraces everything from Eastern mysticism to New Age spirituality. But as Ravi Zacharias points out, such unquestioning acceptance of all things spiritual is absurd. All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true.

Jesus Among Other Gods provides the answers to the most fundamental claims about Christianity, such as:

Aren’t all religions fundamentally the same?

Was Jesus who He claimed to be?

Can one study the life of Christ and demonstrate conclusively that He was and is the way, the truth, and the life?

In each chapter, Zacharias considers a unique claim that Jesus made and then contrasts the truth of Jesus with the founders of Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism with compelling insight and passionate conviction. In addition to an impressive breadth of reading and study, he shares his personal journey from despair and meaninglessness to his discovery that Jesus is who He said He is.

Please visit Ravi’s website for more information about their apologetics ministry.

Lastly, if you don’t win but would still like to buy the book, please purchase it from our ministry book store. This will help support our ministry and it’s the same price as if you were shopping on Amazon.com by yourself.

In Christ and In Defense of the Faith,

If you are like me you are growing very nervous about the current political campaign. You hear Obama and Clinton promising to place windfall profit taxes on “Big Oil”. That sounds really good to everyone who is hurting at the pump, but this is uber dangerous.

Unless Clinton and Obama failed High School economics, they realize that their solutions are totally bogus. At this point you should stop and read the following simple article, which is much better than my own: “Too ‘Complex’?” by Thomas Sowell.

The politicians know that placing penalties on the gas companies can only cause increased prices or decreased supply. They also know that the gas companies will always look like the bad guys. So once things get worse, they will accuse the gas companies of more “price gouging”. As long as there is a serpent to attack, their kingdom is safe.

McCain is no better. He is all for pursuing alternative fuels. That translates into more bogus government solutions like Ethanol.

The best thing the government can do in this situation is to step back. The government can remove the tax on gas (even if Obama, the elitist that he is, thinks that paying 40 cents less on a gallon of gas won’t help the little guy). They can remove requirements for ethanol use (which would also let food prices settle back down and stop the destruction of thousands of acres of rain forest). They can remove restrictions on drilling and refining (who cares if the such and such senator has beach front property and they do not want their view obstructed).

Unfortunately, that would require a President who is willing to admit that he is not the answer. Such a man could never get elected.

I am running on the platform that you people need to budget, stop spending money recklessly, stop complaining, work harder, and trust Jesus Christ to take care of you. Meanwhile, I am going to make sure the government does not put its nose in places where it does not belong.”