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Ladybird3
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Posted: Dec 04 2009 at 10:25am \| IP Logged

I know someone mentioned Peter Kreeft and 7 reasons to be Catholic-which is great but he also has a website peterkreeft.com which has tons of his talks and papers online to listen to or read for free. One of them is "Ecumenism Without Compromise — Denominationalism is not just a Christian scandal, but absolutely intolerable" which talks about the need for all our brothers and sisters to come together and how Catholics need to be more protestant sometimes and it is just a great talk and seems like it would be right up your husband's ally. It is really an excellent talk...they all are.

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Posted: Dec 04 2009 at 6:52pm \| IP Logged

MarilynW wrote:

- Born Fundamentalist, born again Catholic - David Currie. There is also a great cd by David Currie that our church used to sell - if they still do it, I would be glad to send it to you

This book was VERY significant in my conversion because Currie speaks "evangelical-ese" so well. I really connected with him.

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Posted: Dec 05 2009 at 11:47am \| IP Logged

This post on my conversion blog has some quotes about midway down that might be helpful to this discussion as well.

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Posted: Dec 07 2009 at 2:15am \| IP Logged

I happened to link to Martha's conversion blog. There's good stuff there. I especially liked this post and these quotes:

I know what you’re thinking. You’re wondering, “But what does she think about me? She certainly can’t think I don’t have access to God’s grace outside of the Catholic Church!” No, I don’t think God can’t extend His grace to those outside of His Church. To quote Alan Schreck again: “The grace of God is not limited to the sacraments, but the sacraments make it available to us in a unique and reliable way.” pg. 128 And to quote a favorite priest of mine: “God has freely bound Himself to work His salvation in the sacraments, but God is not bound by the sacraments to work His salvation.”

I hope this idea is as reassuring to you as it was to me.

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Karen

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