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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled Christianity For Dummies about Includes, Foreword, Kurt with the genre: Christian Books & Bibles, Christian Living.
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conversations.value: Includes Foreword by Kurt Warner, Super Bowl and NFL MVP
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conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: Christianity For Dummies
  Even after you believe in your head that God is trustworthy, it takes a while before you have that inner assurance in your heart. Therefore, to jump-start your heart, write stuff down as you see God working in your life — be the situation big or small. Put it in your journal, blog it on the Web, or write it in the freshly poured cement of your neighbor's driveway. Just do something to remember it.
  Remembering is a critical step in growing in your faith, because Christians so easily get spiritual amnesia in times of crisis. If you record them, you can fall back on your past experiences when you have times of doubt and use them to reinforce your assurance and trust in God.
  The importance of remembering is a common theme of the Old Testament. In order to strengthen their faith, the Lord kept drilling into the Israelites what he did for them in days past. Consider a sampling of verses from the Book of Deuteronomy:
  Remembering past experiences of God's work is something like spiritual milk for newbies. But at some point in their lives, Christians should mature to spiritual solid foods and be able to walk in confidence, not so much because of what they see God doing, but purely because of their assurance in his character.
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conversations.value: Give me four more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: As a comparison, suppose your softball team got a chance to play in the league championship. Would you take it? The opportunity to succeed is great, but you also open yourself up to losing as a natural byproduct of that decision to play. God seems to believe that the possibility of winning, even with the downside of losing, is greater than not playing in the game at all.
  This argument may seem hard to stomach given the starving kids in third-world countries, the numerous hurricanes that have left many families with nothing and the terrorist tragedies that shake our world. However, a slightly different take on this argument is to look ahead and consider the grand scheme of eternity. With the new heavens and new earth (flip back to Chapter 9), God is planning the Ultimate of All Possible Worlds that his followers will enjoy for eternity. Given what's to come, the way that he created and ordered this present world — with free will and all its implications — is evidently the best way to achieve that future, in spite of the current suffering and evil that exists.
  However, humans have an earthly-centered mindset that makes it hard to think with an eternal perspective. The goal of most everyone is to achieve the highest quality of life on earth for as long as possible. Instead, the New Testament talks a heck of a lot about suffering, persecution, and hardship for people who follow Jesus Christ. Earthly life, therefore, seems much more like a training ground for what's to come. Just as football players have to go through much suffering and pain in summer training camp in order to prepare for the regular season, so too do people on this earth. Think about it — if a football team skipped training camp, they'd be unprepared to make it when the real games started. It seems clear that God feels the same way about his purpose for earthly life. Evidently, in order to have that Ultimate of All Possible Worlds — one that combines human free will with perfect obedience (see Chapter 9) — humans have to go through a considerable amount of blood, sweat, and tears on earth in order to be ready for that future.
  In the end, although Christians offer up intellectual reasons for why God permits evil, you can't easily sweep this topic under the table. The problem of evil and suffering is a tough issue to understand, involving both head and heart when people encounter it.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Bible.
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conversations.value: As a comparison, suppose your softball team got a chance to play in the league championship. Would you take it? The opportunity to succeed is great, but you also open yourself up to losing as a natural byproduct of that decision to play. God seems to believe that the possibility of winning, even with the downside of losing, is greater than not playing in the game at all. 
  This argument may seem hard to stomach given the starving kids in third-world countries, the numerous hurricanes that have left many families with nothing and the terrorist tragedies that shake our world. However, a slightly different take on this argument is to look ahead and consider the grand scheme of eternity. With the new heavens and new earth (flip back to Chapter 9), God is planning the Ultimate of All Possible Worlds that his followers will enjoy for eternity. Given what's to come, the way that he created and ordered this present world — with free will and all its implications — is evidently the best way to achieve that future, in spite of the current suffering and evil that exists. 
  However, humans have an earthly-centered mindset that makes it hard to think with an eternal perspective. The goal of most everyone is to achieve the highest quality of life on earth for as long as possible. Yet, God clearly demonstrates in the Bible that this objective isn't what he's got in mind for humanity. Instead, the New Testament talks a heck of a lot about suffering, persecution, and hardship for people who follow Jesus Christ. Earthly life, therefore, seems much more like a training ground for what's to come. Just as football players have to go through much suffering and pain in summer training camp in order to prepare for the regular season, so too do people on this earth. Think about it — if a football team skipped training camp, they'd be unprepared to make it when the real games started. It seems clear that God feels the same way about his purpose for earthly life. Evidently, in order to have that Ultimate of All Possible Worlds — one that combines human free will with perfect obedience (see Chapter 9) — humans have to go through a considerable amount of blood, sweat, and tears on earth in order to be ready for that future. 
  In the end, although Christians offer up intellectual reasons for why God permits evil, you can't easily sweep this topic under the table. The problem of evil and suffering is a tough issue to understand, involving both head and heart when people encounter it.
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: John Wesley (born in 1703 — see Chapter 18) founds the Methodist Church in 1744. He travels for decades around England on horseback, preaching the gospel outdoors to the poor and underprivileged who would feel uncomfortable in a formal church setting. He maintains an active ministry, which includes opposition to slavery, until his death in 1791.
  Often considered the father of modern Protestant missions, William Carey, an evangelistic preacher, travels to India. He eventually translates the Bible into numerous Indian languages.
  The Protestant Pentecostal movement begins in Topeka, Kansas in 1901 when Pastor Charles Fox Parham leads a woman into an ecstatic experience, which he calls "the baptism of the Holy Spirit," and she starts to speak in tongues. The Pentecostals emerge as the first modern-day group of Christians to promote speaking in tongues. See Chapter 12 for more on this topic.
  Pope John XXIII and his successor Paul VI assemble a council known as Vatican II that helps the Catholic Church reach out to a modern population without changing their core beliefs. The 16 documents that emerge from Vatican II both restate traditional Catholic teaching and offer extensive teaching on contemporary social issues.
  Billy Graham founds the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and begins his ministry of preaching in evangelistic crusades. Graham is believed to have preached the Good News of Jesus Christ to more people throughout his ministry than anyone else in the history of the world has.