On a Hill Too Far Away - Softcover

Fischer, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764224700 ISBN 13: 9780764224706

Publisher: Baker Publishing Group, 2001

Synopsis

The Cross is More Than a Symbol
John Fischer believes Christians are in danger of forgetting the power and passion of the gospel. Using the powerful image of a 5-foot cross bolted in front of the platform of a small Conneticut church, Fischer explores the centrality of the cross to a Christian's faith for all time, as well as the tragedy of the cross's apparent abscence in contemporary Christianity.

About this title

About the Author:

John Fischer has been mixing his unique combination of singing, speaking, and humor for a variety of audiences for over thirty years. His multifaceted talents of song writing, speaking, singing, and writing reflect the many avenues by which John carries on a spiritual dialogue with real life and real people.
John's books present a thought-provoking challenge to the Christian Church today, encouraging believers to pull the true essence of their faith from the trappings of the contemporary Christian subculture. John's debut into fiction, Saint Ben, received a Silver Angel award for fiction.
His other fiction books include Saint Ben, Saint's and Angel's Song, and Ashes on the Wind. Since l980, he has contributed a column to Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) magazine.
A graduate of Wheaton College, John and his family now live in California.

From Publishers Weekly:

"The God of present-day evangelicalism is a big buddy in the sky," chides Fischer, a musician and columnist for Contemporary Christian Music magazine. What has happened to the cross? For someone firmly entrenched in evangelical culture, Fischer has some pretty harsh things to say about evangelicalism--things that he believes many Christians need to hear. Fischer often caustically reminds readers that sin is more than "dysfunction," that the promises of Easter are empty without the horrifying reality of Christ's bloody, bloody death. (Fischer, like a 19th-century Methodist hymn, likes to speak of "nothing but the blood.") This is an eye-opening if craggy read, challenging evangelical Christians to place the cross at the center of spiritual life.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0764224700
• ISBN 13: 9780764224706
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194