World-Tilting Gospel: Embracing a Biblical Worldview and Hanging on Tight

"Dan Phillips begins his book with the crucial assertion that a person's world-view is not what they say it is, but how they live. Furthermore, as explained by Phillips, many professing evangelicals are fundamentally confused about the Gospel. The result is that people live lives and preachers proclaim messages that are anything but 'world-tilting.' The World-Tilting Gospel unfolds the biblical framework needed for the Gospel to make sense while simultaneously responding to the slick Gospel-avoiding marketing gimmicks of modern evangelicalism. Phillips faithfully explains the Gospel using a whole-Bible approach and does so in vivid, highly colorful language suitable to the most contemporary reader. In creative and highly illustrative style, echoing his Pyromaniacs blog site, Dan Phillips has produced a work that is part Gospel tract, part systematic theology, and part blog post very helpful for those in need of the Gospel's bigger picture and who prefer a twenty-first century mode of presentation."

"The World-Tilting Gospel is the sort of foundational resource that will serve everyonefrom those considering the Christian faith to church leaders. With meticulous attention to the biblical text, Dan Phillips unfolds how the cross-centered Gospel polishes a crystal clear lens through which the distorted reality of a fallen world can be seen upside down revealing theGood News that we can be rightside up with God."

"Pick this book up, flip to any page, and start reading. You won't want to put it down."

"Who Would have thought that tilting the world would set it right? With humor, creativity, and insightful surprises, Dan Phillips captures all the beauty and freshness of the Gospel. The Gospel turns us rightside up, and this book uses sound teaching to cure worldly vertigo."

"Dan Phillips is both easy and edifying to read, and I have been doing so for many years, so I am delighted to commend this book to you. The World-Tilting Gospel is a sound introduction to what it means and what we need to understand to be followers of Jesus Christ. Dan knows that for the Christian life to be lived, personally and congregationally, the way Jesus intends us to live it, we need to know: 'who we really are, what kind of world we are really living in, how the world really operates and where it is really going, who God really is, what His eternal plan really was, why we really needed Him and His plan so desperately, what His termsthe Gospelreally were, and what difference the Gospel will really make on every day of our lives.' Furthermore, I agree with his diagnosis of our present need (see the introduction!), and the meaty biblical prescription of truth and grace that he offers as remedy. This book hits on all cylinders. I will use it in discipleship in my own congregation and recommend it widely."

"I've been reading and learning from Dan Phillips ever since I discovered his blog in 2005. His insights never fail to amaze and instruct me. This book reveals why he is such a careful, critical thinker: because his worldview is shaped by Scripture and centered on the timeless truth of the Gospel. This book is a great tonic for the postmodern tendencies that poison so many young minds today."

"Pithy, pointed, perceptively biblical. Dan Phillips unpacks the Gospel's practical implications in this wonderfully readable and supremely helpful handbook."