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This powerful critique of American Christianity chronicles the spiritual pilgrimage of one man and provides a defense of the pure Gospel.

This unique book is divided into two parts. First, a spiritual autobiography of the author, describing his journey from unbelief to American Evangelicalism and Campus Crusade staff work, to his true home in the Lutheran church. Secondly, a hard-hitting critique of shallow, pop-style worship and theology, The Defense Never Rests sets forth a Lutheran approach to apologetics (the defense of the faith to unbelievers).

What Others Are Saying:

"This book speaks to three audiences. Parton shows Evangelicals the way to a theology far more powerful than anything television evangelists have offered. He speaks to Lutherans who often fail to 'be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks ... the reason for the hope that you have' (1 Peter 3:15). And Parton speaks to the religious liberal and to the secularist, challenging them to evaluate honestly the Christian Gospel."
— John Warwick Montgomery
International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism & Human Rights, Strasbourg, France

"Mr. Parton's positive presentation of the treasures of classical Christian theology and his fact-based defense for the truth of the Gospel are stunning."
— Rod Rosenbladt
Professor of Theology
Concordia University, Irvine, Irvine, CA