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Follow Me
September 2010
The essence of this book is that Jesus shows us how to live a perfect human life and, in order to live our lives as best we can...
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Ministry by the Book
September 2010
An impressive, original, but quite difficult book that should find its place in Christian libraries and resource centres...
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Ransome’s Honor
September 2010
Set in Portsmouth England in 1814 after the war with France. The story begins 12 years earlier with a young Julia Witherington, the daughter of an Admiral...
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Best Mates
September 2010
Designed to get kids reading bible stories for themselves, this book helps children imagine life as a disciple of Jesus...
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Is God Colour-Blind?
September 2010
Black Theology refers to the unique reading of the Bible within the framework of the struggles...
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Love and War
September 2010
The authors of this book are well known and they have written yet another very good book...
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Smack Heads and Fat Cats
September 2010
This is a pacy and gripping challenge to love people who are not yet followers of Christ - a call to engage in the adventure of being the good news...
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Crossing the Divide
September 2010
Here is an issue that not only will not go away, but must not be permitted to go away...
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5-Minute Apologetics for Today
September 2010
Ron Rhodes attempts to address a wide spectrum of issues that challenge the Christian including difficult doctrine, the problem of evil, science vs. faith...
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The End of Christianity
September 2010
Dr William Dembski, a gifted Christian thinker, is a champion of Intelligent Design...
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In the Footsteps of Paul
September 2010
The purpose of this book is to bring to life all the places the apostle Paul visited...
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God on the Road
September 2010
I love reading about road trips, and what better place to read about this one around mainland Europe than from a sun bed in Greece!...
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Gazing on the Gospels (Year C)
September 2010
This is the second in a projected series of three books to help people reflect on the recommended Sunday gospel readings...
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Hillytown Biscuit Church at Garibaldi Hall
September 2010
This story of Jake living in a divorced situation is real to so many children and brings a sense of not being the only one in this situation...
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NIV Stewardship Study Bible
September 2010
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of Study Bibles focusing specifically on different themes...
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Faith in Politics
September 2010
The former Bishop of Oxford offers this tantalisingly needed hope for our cultural and political malaise...
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John G Paton - Missionary of the New Hebrides
September 2010
Paton was born near Dumfries in 1824, one of 11 village children, who “made good”...
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The Magnificent Obsession
September 2010
The writer has taken her in-depth study of the life of Abraham...
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Church On Trial
September 2010
This is a timely book that raises important questions in a deep, thoughtful way...
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Know Your Bible (Vol 1)
September 2010
I am slightly bemused why a great publisher/distributor like Authentic have bothered to reprint this material...
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Filling up the Afflictions of Christ
August 2010
This is the latest (to date) of five similar books, each of which
combine a trilogy of biographies to illustrate a different theme...
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Unwrapping the Sacred
August 2010
Lain-Priestley has taken a particular year of her life (March
2008-March 2009) and reflects on personal, national and
international events which happened during that time...
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My First Read and Learn Countdown to Christmas
August 2010
A good book with some very practical and simple ideas and
very friendly illustrations to help a small child get excited and
yet wait patiently for Christmas...
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No Faith in Religion
August 2010
I found this book started very slowly...
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My Favorite Farm Animals
August 2010
The artwork, concept, vocabulary and spelling all indicate
that this board book comes from the United States...
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The Lion Handbook to the Bible
August 2010
This is a very interesting and comprehensive book...
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Mountain Rain
August 2010
Please don’t jump to the conclusion that this is just another
missionary biography...
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Our Father: Enjoying God in Prayer
August 2010
The writer begins by considering why we should pray...
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Encountering Jesus
August 2010
The retail price is an indication that this book is really aimed at academics who are interested in the theory of characterisation...
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Pioneer Ministry and Fresh Expressions of Church
August 2010
This is a two-part, eight chapter guide to becoming a pioneering church...
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Hope Unleashed
August 2010
Andy Hawthorne has been faithfully at the forefront of urban
mission and in this refreshingly reflective book...
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Lies Lies Lies!
August 2010
In this book Michael Green is his usual robust and engaging
self...
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Woman to Woman: Sharing Jesus with a Muslim Friend
August 2010
This book is written out of Joy’s vast experience of living
and working in Muslim countries...
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Made to be Me
August 2010
This autobiography gives a clear description a what life is like
as a teenager growing up with bullying...
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A Shetland Bible (with CD)
August 2010
This attractive publication contains selections from the Bible
(particularly the better known passages e.g. from the gospels)
and will be of special interest to anyone from the Shetlands...
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This Little Church had None
August 2010
Gary Gilley, along with Jay Wegter, wrestles for the church in the search of truth...
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The Call to Joy and Pain
July 2010
You will seldom read a book that causes you to think as much as this one...
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Behind Every Smile
July 2010
Ashley Coggins works with street children in south-east Asia...
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Called by God?
July 2010
A highly specialised book specifically addressing the needs of those who require guidance on how to select and interview candidates for authorised Christian ministry at home or abroad...
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The Authentic Book of Christian Quotations
July 2010
Being a preacher I was very pleased to be asked to review a book of quotations, but I was very disappointed to find...
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The Healer from Nazareth: Jesus' miracles in historical context
July 2010
This book is what it says in the title...
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Practising the Principles of Prayer
July 2010
New books on prayer appear regularly. Most are very helpful, but some are outstanding and may become a classic...
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The Heart of John Wesley’s Journal
July 2010
This is another attempt to get to the heart of John Wesley’s journal, a mammoth work spanning a number of volumes...
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My Every Day Bible Story Collection – Baby Jesus and Friends
July 2010
I tried this book and its DVD on my Sunday school class and they enjoyed it...
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Skills for Collaborative Ministry
July 2010
This very worthy book is, in my opinion, only of value for those leadership teams specifically exploring what the book describes as Collaborative Ministry...
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The Jesus Way
July 2010
Allegedly this is ideal for those new to the faith and wanting to know more...
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John Milton: A Biography
July 2010
An excellent biography of Milton; easy-to-read and always interesting, giving a real insight into Milton's life, his thoughts and his prose and poetry...
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Embracing Life, Spirit, Faith and Adversity
July 2010
This book is the first in a three-part series called ‘The Gifts of Freedom’. It was better than I expected...
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Words of Life
July 2010
In these days where doubt is being cast on the truth and reliability of the Bible, here is a book to restore confidence...
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Connect with the Heart of God
July 2010
This book is a brief commentary on the main themes of Hebrews written originally for the Keswick Convention...
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Life Between Sundays
July 2010
It is extremely difficult to write a critical review about this book without sounding disrespectful...
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Christian Tradition and the Practice of Justice
June 2010
The distinguished and erudite Canon Theologian of Westminster
Abbey has written a major comprehensive work on the place
and meaning of Justice within Christian teaching and practice...
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The Chronicle of Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
June 2010
This is a book chock full of pictures and illustrations, a heavyweight
hardback which is presumably meant as a coffee table book...
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The Cross
June 2010
This, Arthur Blessitt's autobiography, tells of some of his
experiences during 38 years of carrying a large wooden cross in
every nation and major island group in the world...
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HOPE for the Future
June 2010
Following the year of national mission in local communities
under the umbrella of HOPE 2008 comes this resource to
enable mission activities for years to come...
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Theology after Darwin
June 2010
This is a collection of essays by 11 different writers, theologians
and scientists...
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Maybe Today: Thoughts, Prayers and Smiles
June 2010
This is an excellent devotional book and, being undated, could
be used profitably for daily reading over any ten-week period...
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Grace and Mortgage
June 2010
This book is a reprint of one originally published in 1997 and its
content is still highly relevant...
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Setting Words on Fire
June 2010
This thorough consideration of the content of preaching will be a
helpful aid to those wanting to ensure that their preaching is focused
on God...
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Anglicanism Reimagined: An Honest Church?
June 2010
Anglicansim Reimagined was an interesting look at the way
the church connects with the world from a philosophical rather
than practical angle...
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Seeking Life
June 2010
The theme of this unusual, and highly specialised, book is an
exploration of baptism in relation to the Rule of St. Benedict...
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The Holy Spirit: Lord and Life-Giver
June 2010
This is a further book in ‘The Global Christian Library’ series,
giving an insight into theological themes from different cultural
perspectives...
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More
June 2010
Philippa takes us on a journey, sharing her life story openly and
candidly...
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The Bells! The Bells!
June 2010
One of a series of compilations, this time about romance and
marriage, from literature, celeb gossip, email-style 'wisdom',
and the Bible...
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Martyrs & Mystics
June 2010
This book is a fascinating gazetteer of a tour (real or imaginary,
the book itself does not specify) around the United Kingdom
and Ireland...
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The Orthodox Heretic
June 2010
This collection of very short narratives and attached
commentaries gives occasional new insights but generally
speaking it leaves me cold...
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The Puzzle of Sex
June 2010
This revised edition of Vardy's former 1997 book is a conservative
journey into the ethical implications of sexual matters...
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The Activity Bible – Under 7
June 2010
Are you looking for a delightful book of Bible stories that
includes counting puzzles, dot-to-dots, and spot-the-difference
pictures?...
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Pilgrimage: A Spiritual and Cultural Journey
June 2010
Another excellent production from Lion, this book is a
combination of sumptuous photography and well researched...
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Know the Truth
June 2010
Books on doctrine are not everybody's idea of a good time!
Most of the ones I have read in the past have not been exactly
user friendly...
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Starting New Testament Study; Learning & Doing
June 2010
Starting New Testament Study provides an introduction to the
books of the New Testament...
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More Ways Than One
June 2010
Sixteen chapters and an endnote by some of the best known
exponents of noble art of telling others about Jesus Christ
make this a must read book...
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The Selfless Gene
June 2010
Foster’s ‘big idea’ is that Richard Dawkins is ‘a creature of the
(Biblical) creationists’...
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Do Something! Make your life count
June 2010
Don’t judge a book by its cover! Or its title which I found a little
off-putting...
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The Doppelganger Chronicles – The First Escape
June 2010
Written by an Anglican priest, this book of action and
adventure is for older children who enjoyed being scared as
they read...
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The Ordinary Hero: Living the Cross and Resurrection
June 2010
Tim Chester knows his Bible. Nearly every page of this book is
littered with quotations from it...
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Prayer & Prophecy
June 2010
In our world today there are two great hungers, one for
spirituality and the other for justice...
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Valuing Age
June 2010
“By 2021 there will be more people over 80 than under five” -
just one of the statistics quoted in this wide-ranging and useful
resource for anyone working with older people...
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Mere Christians
June 2010
In this book, fifty-five people describe their encounters with the
writings of C.S.Lewis...
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Have You Ever Seen a Hearse Pulling a Trailer?
May 2010
Fresh, fun and full-of-faith! Moore writes a great slim volume
full of wisdom, wit and warmth...
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Stories from the Edge: A Theology of Grief
May 2010
This book grapples with the age long and painful question of
suffering – the ‘Why O God...’?
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Real Scientists Real Faith
May 2010
This is a compilation from 18 scientists on the theme of science
and faith...
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Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian
May 2010
I think it would be impossible not to like Paul Knitter...
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Wrong Way, Jonah
May 2010
This is another book in the ‘Discover 4 Yourself’ Bible Study
series...
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I Once was a Buddhist Nun
May 2010
Esther clearly and simply tells her story from childhood onwards
of her search for the truth and the various twists and turns in her
life that led her first into Buddhism...
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Anselm of Canterbury
May 2010
St Anselm of Canterbury – great abbot, archbishop, statesman,
defender of the rights of the church, theologian and philosopher
– was a towereing and complex figure...
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Glory in the Glen
May 2010
From the subtitle, ‘A History of Evangelical Revivals in Scotland
1880-1940’, you can see that this is quite specialised...
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The Practice of the Presence of God (2009 Ed)
May 2010
There is nothing in the world more sweet and delightful than
that of a continual conversation with God...
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Faith in the Fool
May 2010
I found the title of this book off-putting and took a while to get
into it...
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The Unquenchable Flame: Introducing the Reformation
May 2010
I have a love of church history and a special interest in the
Reformation...
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Through the Year with Michael Ramsey
May 2010
The daily readings in this excellent book are not from the Bible
but from the former Archbishop of Canterbury’s own writings
and talks...
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A Painful Gift
May 2010
This is the autobiography of Christopher Goodchild who was
diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome in his forties...
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The Seven Deadly Sins
May 2010
Here is an investigation of the origins of the so-called seven
deadly sins...
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These Strange Ashes
May 2010
This is a gentle, but honest, reflection on missionary life in
Ecuador in 1952-53 during her first ventures into Ecuador...
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In Rebel Hands
May 2010
‘During a moonlit night in Mozambique, six missionaries and
an eighteen-month-old girl were abducted at gun-point from
their mission base and medical clinic, near Gondola, by heavily
armed guerrilla soldiers of the Mozambique National Resistance
Movement.'...
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The Missing
May 2010
This is the second book in a series of four entitled ‘Seasons
of Grace’....
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Breaking the News
May 2010
Good things come in little bundles with J John...
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Keeping Your Cool… When Your Anger is Hot!
May 2010
Anger, writes the author, is caused by hurt, injustice, fear or
frustration or by a combination of these emotions...
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The Twilight Phenomenon
May 2010
This book is easy to read and relevant for the time...
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Bible Study Guides - For Everyone
May 2010
Yet another series of Bible study ‘helps’...
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Autumn Leave
April 2010
People of a certain age will resonate completely with much
of this...
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Salvation is More Complicated Than You Think
April 2010
Alan Stanley investigates what ‘salvation’ or ‘being saved’
means in the Bible...
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Jesus’ People – What the Church Should Do Next
April 2010
Before Steven Croft was called to become Bishop of Sheffield,
he led the Fresh Expressions of Church initiative on behalf of the
Anglican and Methodist churches...
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Redescribing Reality: What We Do When We Read the Bible
April 2010
Walter Brueggemann is a distinguished, prolific, very influential,
often quoted American Old Testament scholar, now in retirement.
His writing is dense and for me not easy to grasp.
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Chains of Grace
April 2010
Like Peter Jeffery’s other books, this autobiography is written
in a straightforward and direct style, that points the reader fully
and completely towards Jesus.
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Christology: Key Readings in Christian Thought
April 2010
Understanding Christ is pivotal to faith. The authors of this fine
volume have drawn together readings on the doctrine of the
person of Jesus Christ. Christology is a major topic not only for
theological students and teachers but for the informed Christian
in the street.
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Revelation Reclaimed
April 2010
Jon Newton has written an essential guide to the Apocalypse.
It rescues the last book of the Bible from those who would
use it as a timetable to predict future events and at the same
time it establishes it as valuable part of scripture for today.
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Substance: Vol 3 - Calling
April 2010
This third volume in a successful series provides two modules for
Bible-based sessions for youth groups with young people aged 14-
18.
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Evolution: Good Science?
April 2010
The problem with books on Darwin, evolution, creationism etc.
is that they only add to what must be called a “dialogue of the
deaf”.
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Games, Games, More Games! 101 Great Ideas for Youth Clubs
April 2010
This is a basic compendium of games for children and youth
groups. The suggested age range is given for each game, along
with the simple equipment required.
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Mission Shaped Church (2nd Ed)
April 2010
Although this is virtually a reprint of a report first published five
years ago this is no reason for anyone who missed it first time
round to ignore it now.
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Votewise Now!
April 2010
Predictions for the 2010 General Election suggest we could
see a different party in government for the first time since
1997, so it is perhaps particularly important that people give
serious consideration to the way they will vote.
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Finding an Unseen God - Reflections of a Former Atheist
April 2010
This book is written in an unusual, interesting format taking the
reader on a journey whereby Alicia bares her thoughts and feelings
over the period of her life that took her from being an atheist to the
point where she became a Christian.
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Leaving Homosexuality
April 2010
Care, content and compassion are in abundance in Alan
Chambers second book regarding same-sex attraction.
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This Momentary Marriage
April 2010
This has been a difficult book to review. John Piper is a well
respected pastor and author and his central theme, that it is
the covenant of marriage that is designed keep love alive and
not the other way round, is both biblically sound and a vital
message for today.
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Same Sex Marriage - Is it Really the Same?
April 2010
Mark Christopher is an American pastor in South Africa. He's
written this brief book to give a 'heads up' call to the church to
be aware of what's going on and to speak the 'truth in love'.
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The SPCK Book of Christian Prayer
April 2010
This is an excellent collection of over twelve hundred prayers.
There are prayers from many centuries, some from the second
century right up today
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Counterfeit Gods
April 2010
This is a great book. I had to say that right at the top in case
you don't read any further. Keller’s third book brilliantly dissects
the idols of our age.
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Discipline With Care: Applying Biblical Correction in Your Church
April 2010
There can be little doubt that the subject matter covered by this
book is one of the most delicate aspects of church life.
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Walk This Way: On the Road with Jesus
April 2010
This book is a collection of writings, thoughts & prose of Christians
from the past, divided into 40 chapters
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The 100 Word Bible
April 2010
How do you distil the big idea of each book of the Bible into just
100 words each? You can’t really, but this is a brave attempt
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The Holy Island of Lindisfarne
April 2010
David Adam writes as someone experienced and enraptured
by the beauty, wonder and holiness of Lindisfarne since first
glimpsing its fairytale castle from the train as a young boy
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Storm Force
April 2010
Better than Meyer and hot on the heels of Jesus is the instruction
and embodied wisdom of Eric Gaudion.
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The Love Shack
April 2010
Don Nori is not a writer I am familiar with even though he has
written ten books previously
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Following Philippians
April 2010
Commentaries help us to understand the Scriptures and, as
such, are profitable.
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Footsteps of the past - William Tyndale
April 2010
It is refreshing to come across an activity book that has been
produced in England and celebrates the Christian heritage of
this country.
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God Actually
April 2010
Walt Whitman wrote; 'Logic & sermons never convince'.
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Open the Door: A Journey to the true self
April 2010
I have to admit to having struggled with this book; it was really
not to my taste.
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Opening up Genesis
March 2010
As is usual with this series from Day One, though not a full-blown
commentary, it ‘does what it says on the tin’...
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Colourful Creation
March 2010
This is a rhyming children’s story of creation with a moral
question at the end asking “what will you do?”...
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Living at the Crossroads
March 2010
The authors set out to “spark Christians’ imaginations with
the magnitude of a Christ-centred worldview in various
settings...
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Comfort Those Who Grieve
March 2010
Here, Tautges gives all caregivers a very unusual and much
needed book...
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Darwin and Darwinism 150 Years Later
March 2010
This is a very unpleasant book because the authors do not just
compare their view of Creation with Darwinism...
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The 8 secrets of happiness
March 2010
What a fantastic idea! This book would sit happily in a non-
Christian bookshop...
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Junkie Meets Jesus in a Trash Can
March 2010
Jesus turns around lives, and this easy-to-read autobiography
spells out the difference that meeting the Saviour made in
Colin’s life...
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Common Worship Daily Prayer (soft cover edition)
March 2010
For anyone who wishes for their own copy of the Church of
England's daily prayer book this is a welcome addition to the
range...
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Right on the Money
March 2010
The author has over 25 years of experience in banking and
currently runs a business consultancy...
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In Search of a Confident Faith: Overcoming Barriers to Trusting in God
March 2010
There seems to be a current trend for Christians to engage
honestly with doubt...
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Fields of Grace
March 2010
I found this historical novel a delight to read...
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The Three Faces of Christ
March 2010
In this writing there is an invitation to encounter the infant
Christ...
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How the Church Lost the Way: And How it Can Find it Again
March 2010
Steve Maltz takes us back to the roots of our Christian faith...
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A Science of God
March 2010
The problem with the short book A Science of God is its age...
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Darkest England & the Way Back In
March 2010
A short, powerful and moving book from the pen of one of
the leaders involved in the Eden Project...
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Another Man’s War
March 2010
This true story is an amazing and almost unbelievable account
of the adventures of Sam Childers...
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The Coming of God's Kingdom
March 2010
This is an inductive Bible study on Matthew's gospel...
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Going to Church – A user’s guide
March 2010
Cleary written, and illustrated with apt cartoons, this “user’s
guide” is a helpful introduction to going to traditional church...
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An Evangelical among the Anglican Liturgists
March 2010
If you are an Anglican liturgy aficionado then this will be a Five
Star book and no short review can possibly cover its depths
and do it justice...
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Taking Jesus to Work
March 2010
Do we really need another book on faith in the workplace?...
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Opening Up James
March 2010
The ‘Opening Up’ series has gone from strength to strength,
and this is no exception...
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Reasoning from the Scriptures with Jehovah’s Witnesses
March 2010
I’m an argumentative type of bloke so when the JW’s knock on
the door I invite them in for a cup of tea and a good knock about
over whose Bible is to be believed...
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Faith on Trial: Studies in Psalm 73
March 2010
This is a re-publication of a book first published in 1965...
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Living Faith: Lessons from Abraham
March 2010
I remember several years ago hearing of a lorry driver who had
switched on his cab radio and found himself listening to David
Watson...
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All One in Christ Jesus
March 2010
This book examines, among other things, what unity among
evangelicals is built upon...
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Through the Pilgrim Door
March 2010
Volland’s book will inspire many who are seeking to find a new
expression of church in the community...
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God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
February 2010
This is a revised edition of Lennox’s important book, with
extra material added...
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Walking with God
February 2010
Sr Elizabeth Tuttle, a Catholic Sister, and Dennis Wrigley,
Leader and co-founder of the Maranatha Community, offer a
collection of original prayers, meditations and reflections which
are both inspired and inspiring...
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Bible Overview
February 2010
Here’s a great introduction to the Bible. Written with young and
new believers in mind, Steve Levy helps us get to grips with
the structure and the meaning of God's word...
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Finally Alive
February 2010
When I read what this book was about (being born again), I
was really looking forward to reading it...
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How Did Christianity Begin?
February 2010
Have you ever been in on a conversation between an evangelical
theologian and an unbelieving scholar?...
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It’s a Wonderful (Imperfect) Life
February 2010
The sub-title of this book Devotional Readings for Women Who
Strive too Hard to Make it Just Right may make this book a
magnet for some...
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A Year in China
February 2010
This book is based on the real experiences of individuals,
but, for obvious reasons, names and places have been
changed...
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All Things Bright and Beautiful
February 2010
This book is a bright and cheerful board book, which is full of
things to stimulate small children...
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You Are Mine: Reflections on Who We Are
February 2010
I didn’t find this book very easy to read, perhaps because it
made me look deep into myself, to examine prejudices within
which I didn’t know I had...
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A Young Woman’s Guide to Making Right Choices
February 2010
I was really disappointed by this book. Teen girl books are so
important for offering guidance and support but this book
doesn’t lend itself to being read...
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A Pocket Guide to Christian History
February 2010
This first class book is exactly what it says on the cover; a
brief overview of the major players and events in Christian
history, from the early church to the 21st century...
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The Street Children of Brazil
February 2010
This is the updated story of Sarah’s 1996 book of the same
name...
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Satan and His Kingdom: What the Bible says and How it Matters to you
February 2010
This is a highly readable and very useful examination of
Satan and spiritual warfare...
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Maximum Life: All For the Glory of God
February 2010
This is a very readable overview of the Christian life written to
ensure that all understand that God is to be found, is interested in and can be enjoyed in all of life...
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Gilbert Was Wrong!
February 2010
This book consists of the reminiscences of a policeman who ended
his career as Chief Constable of the Isle of Man...
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No More Heroes
February 2010
This book falls between two stools. It falls short of shedding
light on a number of Biblical characters - among them Cain,
Jacob and Solomon...
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Here Comes Heaven! A Kid’s Guide to God’s Supernatural Power
January 2010
Royal mission; find the keys to the Kingdom; special agents;
royal rulers – are we in the realm of spies and espionage?...
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Lord, Help Me Break This Habit
January 2010
This is a practical, godly and gritty guide that will bring healing
and help to what may be broken and fragile in your life...
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Paul the Missionary: Realities, Strategies and Methods
January 2010
Here at last is the new textbook for which students of missions
and missionary practitioners have long been waiting...
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Cruel and Usual Punishment
January 2010
Nonie Darwish is an Egyptian woman now living in America
and in this book she seeks to explain the reality of Sharia law...
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The Gospel According to Bruce Springsteen
January 2010
Bruce Springsteen, ‘The Boss’, aged 60, a rock star for over
35 years...
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Life as it Could Be ... When Self-Help isn't Enough
January 2010
A brilliant little book broken down into 16 short weekly studies...
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His Name is Jesus
January 2010
This is a beautifully packaged gift book...
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A Celtic Liturgy
January 2010
This small compact prayerbook has a lovely feel to it - both to
the touch and as to its contents...
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1-2-1 Discipleship
January 2010
Here is a simple book written by an OMF missionary in Taiwan...
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The Noticer
January 2010
The main character in this well-written novel, a man called
Jones, tells someone who is depressed to be grateful and
someone who is dying that the best is yet to come...
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Let Go
January 2010
This is a book written for women, especially women who feel
burdened in any way...
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Saint John of the Cross
January 2010
What a happy chance that I should be sent this book for review...
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Breaking Through Depression
January 2010
Depression cuts deep: mentally, spiritually, and physically,
impacting many lives and the people they love...
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Finding God in The Shack
January 2010
In his afterword, Rauser asks the question: “Can you get
theology out of a novel?” He clearly demonstrates that you can...
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Seeing God Through the Human Body
January 2010
Dr Peprah-Gyamfi is a Christian medical doctor who is fascinated
by the intricacies of the human body...
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The Skeptic’s Guide to Global Poverty
January 2010
As the spelling of the title implies, this book is intended for the US
market and thus is trying to raise awareness of world poverty...
» more
Messiah: Jesus – the Evidence of History
December 2009
This is an extremely clearly written book demonstrating the fact
that Jesus is to be seen as the Messiah promised by the Old
Testament...
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A Life Poured Out
December 2009
Perennes has written a well-researched and very moving biography
of Pierre Claverie, a native Algerian who, as Bishop of Oran, led
the Catholic Church in that country...
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Did you Think to Pray?
December 2009
This quite comprehensive book about prayer starts by asking
the question ‘What Prayer Does for God’...
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What’s in the Bible About Jesus
December 2009
This book would be very good for people who are thinking
about the Bible and trying to make sense of what it all means...
» more
The Republic of Heaven: A Catholic Anglican Future
December 2009
This book aims to show what the author hopes to see as
the future of the Catholic tradition in the Church of England...
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Helping Teenagers to Pray
December 2009
This book gives very clear guidance on helping to teenagers
to pray – but it does so much more than that...
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50 Craziest Bible Stories
December 2009
The book has a range of well known and not so familiar Bible
stories, which gives it a nice balance...
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The Crown and the Fire
December 2009
Instead of the seven words that Jesus spoke from the cross,
Tom Wright invites us to consider seven words that people
spoke to those gathered at the cross...
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Approaching God
December 2009
At first glance this seems like the sort of book every church
needs to purchase...
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Teach your Family the Truth
December 2009
The author of this book is to be congratulated in writing in
a format which, as far as I am aware, is totally unique...
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Axiom
December 2009
This is a first class book from one of America’s top churchmen...
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Is Your Lord Large Enough?
December 2009
For those who enjoy the writings of CS Lewis this is a book
which brings together many of his writings over the theme of
seeing God in new and bigger ways in our lives...
» more
Love is a Verb
December 2009
Heart-warming, inspiring, uplifting – just three of many words
to describe this book which consists of 40 short testimonies
of how different people have put love into action...
» more
Christ of the Everyday
December 2009
Written by the Director of the North of England Institute for
Christian Education, Christ of the Everyday is surely the product
of many years’ ministry, worship, and religious teaching...
» more
Give a Boy a Gun
December 2009
Alistair Little was a UVF terrorist in Northern Ireland who was
jailed for murder and who has since become much involved
in conflict resolution around the world...
» more
It's the End of the World as we Know it
December 2009
This is as dire as the title is dramatic! Poor in print, publishing
and in purpose...
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The Manga Jesus: vol 1
December 2009
Anyone who’s come across the Manga series knows that this
is a really good quality comic strip style...
» more
Lucas Unleashed
December 2009
It sounds expensive for a little book that took this reviewer
about two hours to read, but it’s better than the price of a
cinema ticket...
» more
Child, Victim, Soldier: The Loss of Innocence in Uganda
December 2009
Moving and gritty stuff. This searing volume is about children at war
today, as casualties and forced perpetrators of brutality...
» more
Personality and Prayer: Finding the prayer style that suits you
December 2009
This book is well written, interesting, readable and of moral
value (it emphasises the importance of prayer).
» more
Simon Peter: The training years / Challenging Times
December 2009
These two books are a brief overview of the call of Simon
Peter and his subsequent training in following Jesus...
» more
Emerging Worship: Becoming Part of the Sound and Song of Heaven
December 2009
There is little doubt that worship leader Roland Worton is passionate
about the place of worship in the church of the 21st century...
» more
Winter Haven
November 2009
You can pick this book up to read and you will have great
trouble putting it down...
» more
Think God, Think Science
November 2009
This book engages with relevant and pressing questions
today, when the origin and nature of our universe is of prime
concern and the advance of scientific knowledge leads many
to question traditional views about life and how our world
began and where it is going...
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Spiritual Revolution: The Story of OM
November 2009
Most of us will have heard of Operation Mobilisation (OM) but
may not be aware of how this organisation began over 50 years
ago with George Verwer and his like-minded friends encouraging
young people to take on the challenge of short-term mission...
» more
Jesus Christ: Teacher, Servant & Saviour
November 2009
This is the latest short study guide prepared by John Stott.
Its 13 studies allow for exploration of a number of aspects of
Jesus’ life using a variety of excerpts from the gospels and New
Testament letters...
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The Life of Jesus for Today
November 2009
The author’s view is that we cannot discern the true words and
actions of Jesus because they have been interpreted by the
Gospel writers for partisan reasons and to justify the practices
of Jesus’ followers...
» more
A Visual History of the English Bible
November 2009
To me, the word ‘history’ on the front of a book is an immediate
turn-off, but I am so glad and privileged to have read this
informative volume...
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1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII
November 2009
This being the 500th anniversary of the coronation of Henry VIII
we will inevitably see many books published to commemorate
the event...
» more
The Back Leg of a Goat
November 2009
This is a great children’s book; small chapters and good
illustrations, keeping young readers interested...
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Sanity Secrets for Stressed out Women
November 2009
The author has written a number of self-help books designed to
help people who feel under pressure in their busy lives...
» more
Looking Good, Being Bad
November 2009
Having a reputation can be a hindrance as well as a help:
on the one hand, people keep a look out for your latest title;
on the other, high expectations can be difficult to meet on
a consistent basis...
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Where’s Your Jesus Now?
November 2009
I loved this book! Karen Spears Zacharias urges us not to allow
fear to cloud our vision of Jesus, and rob us of our faith in
Him...
» more
The Prophetic Church
November 2009
The author has vast experience as a pastor of established
and new churches...
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Holiness
November 2009
This small book comprises eight chapters on such topics as
trust, honesty, perseverance and ‘the beyond in our midst’...
» more
The God Reality
November 2009
This is a curate’s egg of a book. Many of the critics of
Dawkins, God Delusion have handsomely deconstructed his
mediocre theology whilst agreeing with his highly contentious
evolutionary biology...
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I’m Not Good Enough and Other Lies Women Tell Themselves
November 2009
Sharon Jaynes uses many Bible references and stories to
counteract the misconceptions some women have about
themselves...
» more
Becoming God’s Champion
November 2009
How do we help we help children to study the Bible? Cartoon
DVDs, children’s Bibles and storybooks all help to teach
younger people about what we find in the Bible...
» more
I Will Trust in You
November 2009
This book starts with an excellent and informative introduction
about how the Psalms have been an integral part of public
worship and personal prayers for thousands of years...
» more
100 Instant Talks for all Occasions
November 2009
As with many books containing the word ‘instant’ in the title I
get a little suspicious that it isn’t actually going to do what it
says on the cover...
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Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision
November 2009
Perhaps I have been lucky in the teachers I have had and the
books I have read, but I came to the end of this exhausting book
unable to agree with the hyperbolic reviews printed inside it...
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The Truth about Islam and Jesus
November 2009
I approached this little book hoping it would give me all the
‘ammunition’ I needed to be able to dialogue confidently
with Muslims regarding the Jesus I know and how he is
different from the Jesus found in the Qu’ran...
» more
Great Prayers of the Old Testament
November 2009
This book would be more suited to a theology student than
the man/woman in the street. I found the 20-page introduction
difficult...
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How to save a Life
November 2009
Badged as an easy-to-read guide to becoming a Christian...
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God of Surprises (Revised & Updated)
October 2009
This book is a real gem. It is a book to be used and reused:
it has invaluable exercises at the end of most of its chapters...
» more
Salvation Belongs to Our God
October 2009
The sub-title of this book reinforces the author’s view that
salvation is more than just the theme of the last few chapters
...
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The Last Word
October 2009
This small book contains a wealth of wisdom. It contains John
Stott’s final major address ...
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Love One Another
October 2009
This book is a real gem. It is a book to be used and reused: The
author’s intention is to present a modest plan to help the church
function as a family....
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Let God Arise
October 2009
“While we do not want to live in the past, there is a sense in
which the past always lives on in us.”
» more
The One-Stop Guide to Christianity
October 2009
Lion have done it again with David Winter. This is in the great
tradition of the Lion Handbook of the Bible.
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Water or Goo
October 2009
This is a sequel to The back leg of a Goat, but you do not have
to read the first book to understand or enjoy this book.
» more
The Innocence of God
October 2009
In many ways the central message of this book could be
summed up by a sentence ...
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Saint Francis of Assisi
October 2009
This book is classic Chesterton. It is not a detailed biography of
Francis the Saint, but an excellent analysis of Francis the man.
» more
Great Gospel Words
October 2009
The author takes five words that are central to the Christian
faith and examines each one in five detailed chapters.
» more
John’s Jam-Packed Jottings
October 2009
This is another of the TOPZ Secret Diaries produced to
accompany the TOPZ bi-monthly Bible reading notes produced
by CWR.
» more
Global Dictionary of Theology
October 2009
Christianity is a global faith but you may be forgiven for thinking
that its centre of gravity is in the West.
» more
The Lord's Prayer
October 2009
From the book title I expected this to be a book about prayer,
but it is really a manual for living based on this special prayer.
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What Kind of God
October 2009
An excellent defence of the Christian faith.
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God and Community Cohesion
October 2009
Community cohesion has replaced multiculturalism as the key
social policy objective of both local and national government.
» more
Counsel your flock / Counsel one another
October 2009
These two companion books are reviewed together.
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The Unique and Universal Christ
September 2009
There are few as well qualified as Dr Nazir-Ali, The Bishop of
Rochester, to show the special relevance ...
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The Lost History of Christianity
September 2009
Always enlightening, sometimes depressing and absolutely
essential reading for anybody ...
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Lessons from the Road
September 2009
Third Day have generally escaped my radar but even so I did
enjoy this book of insights...
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Christmas: The Original Story
September 2009
Hands up all those dreaming of a tight Christmas this year?
» more
What’s in the Bible about God
September 2009
This is a book which you can use for your own study or for
group study.
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Man to Man ... about God
September 2009
This book was published for the London Men’s Convention
held annually at the Royal Albert Hall...
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The Prayer that Makes God Smile
September 2009
This lovely book for primary age children has delightful
illustrations and a pleasing design.
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Searching for Meaning
September 2009
When I first looked at this book I was rather apprehensive when I
saw chapter headings such ...
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10 Things You Aren’t Telling Him
September 2009
This would be a good book for newly wedded wives to help them
get it right from the start!
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The Faith We Profess
September 2009
This book takes each line of the Apostles’ Creed and sets out
to offer doctrinal beliefs ...
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The Worship Driven Life
September 2009
AW Tozer's life long passion was the subject of Worship.
Worship of the Triune God of ...
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Night Vision
September 2009
Anyone who believes the church needs to connect with people
“where they are at” should ...
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Robin’s Song
September 2009
Adults looking for a gentle bedtime story that helps pre-school
children to reflect on the glories ...
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Pray Big for your Marriage
September 2009
Is there room for another book on marriage? This one comes
from ‘across the pond’ but I think ...
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Through the Fire
September 2009
I am hoping this is a blokes’ book and then it won't be quite
so bad to say ...
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Who will be saved
August 2009
This book is beautifully written and deals with an essential topic
in every Christian’s life, the question of our salvation. Amazingly
salvation is so well misunderstood by many Christians due
mainly to a lack of good teaching.
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Deep
August 2009
It’s encouraging reading about Christian faith in action on the
ground in our cities. Frog & Amy Orr-Ewing know that to affect the
town, city, society for God the church needs to be outward looking,
determined and dependant on the Holy Spirit.
» more
Seasons of the Son: A journey through the Christian year
August 2009
This is a guide to the various feasts and festivals of the Christian
Year.
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My Reason for Hope
August 2009
The author describes this book as, “a collection of brief
stories of how a variety of people ...
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Prayers of the Western Highlanders – From the Gaelic
August 2009
We have holidayed several times in Wester Ross, and enjoyed
worshipping in churches up there...
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A Monk in the Inner City
August 2009
This book is a series of meditations or true stories based on
the experiences of a Benedictine nun from a poor part of Erie...
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Storylines
August 2009
A really exciting and refreshing book; it is an overview of the
Bible from Genesis to Revelations...
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Costly Roots
August 2009
This book tells the life story of Sarah Cohen, born into a Jewish
family in London but converted to Christianity as a young lady...
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Getting Well – A study for children about spiritual and physical healing
August 2009
Caution! This resource book is for the adult leaders, despite the
confusing title...
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The Rhythm of Discipleship
August 2009
This book is one in a series of 12. Each one is by a different author,
exploring its own theme....
» more
A Concise New Testament Theology
August 2009
This book is an outline of the theology of the books that make
up the New Testament and is an abridgement ...
» more
God's Covering: a place of healing
August 2009
The "Truth and Freedom" series from Ellel is a welcome adventure
into healing ministry territory...
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Who made the Morning?
August 2009
One of those lovely children's picture books that we grownups
love.
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Joseph – the hidden hand of God
August 2009
I wish I could be a bit more enthusiastic about this book.
» more
Creation, Chaos and Christ
August 2009
In his introduction Peter Maiden, Chairman of the 2008
Keswick Convention, writes...
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Nighty Night, Noah
August 2009
Abingdon:Alban/ 9780687646913 / hardback / 28pp / £7.99
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The First Christmas
July 2009
The birth narratives in Matthew and Luke are so familiar, heard
every Christmas in church and on the radio, that I wasn't sure
there was much more I could learn about them. How wrong I was!
» more
Too Busy Not to Pray
July 2009
This is a lengthened and updated version of a well-known
classic, but it is certainly not an example of a publisher trying
to squeeze as much as possible out of an old book...
» more
Opening Up Matthew's Gospel
July 2009
Within its limitations this is an attractively produced, thought
provoking and well written addition to the popular commentaries
available on the first gospel...
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Crossing the Desert
July 2009
This little slip of a book is a self-help manual by an author who
has written in that area before...
» more
The Silent Struggle
July 2009
This is the story of one person’s struggle with abuse and to
overcome anorexia...
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They Echoed the Voice of God
July 2009
I enjoyed this well-written little book in which Ellsworth examines
one passage from each of the twelve Minor Prophets...
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Mission in the 21st Century
July 2009
Written from a mainly non-Western perspective this is a very
interesting exploration of the Five Marks of Mission...
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Beyond the Edge
July 2009
From the title, I expected this book to be heavy and depressing,
but it wasn't...
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The New Conspirators
July 2009
Tom Sine brings to light the ways in which the new streams of
church are effectively reaching out to our culture and encourages
us to be a part of it...
» more
The Six Pillars of Biblical Power
July 2009
On receiving this book I was excited by its claim to help me
understand the story line of the Bible with its six pillars, that
even a, "burned-out sceptic of the Bible" would find "attractive
to the human soul"...
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Christ Walks Where Evil Reigned
July 2009
As soon as I saw this book, I could not wait to read it and I
was not disappointed...
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George Muller of Bristol
July 2009
This authorised biography, originally published only one year after
Muller’s death, was endorsed by his son-in-law, James Wright...
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Be Successful; be Spiritual!
July 2009
John Temple comes from an engineering and scientific
background and rose through various companies to be
Managing Director or Chairman...
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Any Complaints? Blame God!
July 2009
Habakkuk, the Old Testament prophet is the subject of this
book. I suspect that he is not the first prophet to spring to
mind when we think of biblical writers...
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The Canterbury Preacher’s Companion 2009
July 2009
For Anglicans and others who stick closely to the liturgical calendar,
this may, if you are desperate, at least give you some ideas about
what to preach on throughout the year...
» more
The Eye of the Needle
July 2009
To my surprise, I found this a readable book, although I
couldn’t agree with it...
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The Bible and the University
July 2009
This is an outstanding book, but don’t rush out and buy it if you
are not ‘academically inclined’...
» more
Gentle Keeping
July 2009
In this practical and very sensitive book the author, a
Dominican sister, offers a wide range of prayers and services
for remembering departed loved ones...
» more
Unbreakable
July 2009
Unbreakable is a very humble and honest account of a man
who did not allow himself to be broken, a great title!
» more
Signs & Seasons: A guide for your Christian journey
July 2009
This is a thin book which covers a great deal of ground...
» more
Crazy Love
June 2009
This book is seriously challenging. Only read it if you want to
be a better child of the Father and follower of Jesus...
» more
Living Water
June 2009
This book is described by Paul Hattaway, in the introduction,
as a companion volume to The Heavenly Man, which was a
bestseller several years ago...
» more
Basic Christianity
June 2009
Have you ever wondered who Jesus was? Why He was crucified?
Did He really rise from the dead? These key questions need
to be answered so that we can understand Christianity...
» more
Bethlehem Speaks
June 2009
Read this book and get very angry! “Israel is creating a system of
apartheid by building its security wall and imposing immensely
repressive security restrictions on Palestinians...
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Why We’re Not Emergent (By two guys who should be)
June 2009
If you want an easy to read, well-written and balanced
introduction to Emergent Church then this is the book to read...
» more
An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and their Texts
June 2009
Although entitled 'an introduction' this book appears to be
aimed more at the postgraduate Biblical Studies student...
» more
Primary Assemblies for a Just World
June 2009
I love assemblies that really get to the core of justice issues in
the world as children are open and willing to hear all about other
people in the world...
» more
The Spectacular Ordinary Life
June 2009
The Spectacular Ordinary Life is initially a spectacular book
which does start to whip up an enthusiasm in the reader to start
looking at all parts of Life...
» more
Teaching Acts
May 2009
Teaching Acts is a resource book designed to be “purposely
practical, seeking to offer real help for those involved in
teaching the Bible to others.”...
» more
Conquering the Dragon
May 2009
You get the feeling on reading this book that this account just
scratches the surface of an incredible and far-ranging life...
» more
Encountering God
May 2009
Tracey Williamson works for Marilyn Baker Ministries and
teaches at workshops, conferences and church weekends on
numerous topics - one of which is intimacy with God...
» more
The Unheeded Christ
May 2009
Neither the cover nor the title would inspire me to pick up this
book to read, which is a pity because the contents are good
enough...
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I Became a Christian and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
May 2009
This is a truly honest and humorous book. The author is a pastor
with a past who does not hide his sins and shortcomings and in
the process teaches us to ‘replace souvenir religion with authentic
spiritual passion’...
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Truly Divine & Truly Human: The Story of Christ and the Seven
May 2009
In this book Stephen Need introduces the reader to the first seven
ecumenical councils which met between 325 and 787 AD...
» more
Introduction to Modern Theology
May 2009
For those wishing to explore the contents of nineteenth- and
twentieth-century philosophical theology, this Introduction
to Modern Theology is likely to prove very helpful...
» more
The Mantle of Esther: Discovering the Power of Intercession
May 2009
For me, this was an unusual way of reading the book of Esther...
» more
The Future of Atheism: Alistair McGrath & Daniel Dennett in dialogue
May 2009
The initial part of this book is a transcript of a dialogue between
Alister McGrath and Daniel Dennett on the present status of
atheism, including some questions from the audience at the event...
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Ladies and Gentlemen the Church has left the Building
May 2009
The world needs to see a Jesus who is creative, compassionate,
visionary, peacemaking, political – and this book opens up
how this can be achieved through the vision of the late Rob
Frost and his son Andy in holding a Pentecost Festival...
» more
Marriage Works
May 2009
J.John has done it again. An excellent book on all issues of
marriage and singleness...
» more
Why Trust the Bible?
May 2009
This is a welcome reprint of Amy Orr-Ewing’s readable,
informative and comprehensive book published in 2005, in
which she tackles vital questions for all of us today about trusting
the Bible...
» more
Scandal of Grace
May 2009
If you have ever wondered what it might have been like to live
with Jesus, then you are not alone...
» more
Religion In Public Life
May 2009
This book looks at the position of religion in public life in the
pluralist societies in which we now live...
» more
50 Ready to Use Assemblies
May 2009
The first assembly I tried from 50 Ready to Use Assemblies (all
about Phobias) got even years 10 and 11 interested! I was very
happy...
» more
From Stone to Living Word
May 2009
From Stone to Living Word is an excellent book and a great
read...
» more
Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light
May 2009
In one way this is a depressing book because so much of
Mother Teresa’s writing describes the darkness she felt within...
» more
Go Back and Be Happy
May 2009
Go Back and Be Happy is a fantastic story of true hope. Julie
Papievis tells her story with an honesty that can often be left
out in true stories...
» more
Messy Church 2
May 2009
Messy Church is an increasingly popular “Fresh Expression” of church and this second book contains fifteen more themes to explore in a messy way...
» more
Marriage, Mitres and being Myself
May 2009
We hear a lot about footballers’ wives and now we have a
book about Bishops’ wives (or husbands if the cap fits)!...
» more
Kingdom Growth
May 2009
This book follows on from an earlier one, Kingdom Builders. It
is a commentary on Acts 9-17...
» more
O Clap Your Hands
May 2009
Subtitled ‘A musical tour of sacred choral works’, this book and
CD contain recordings, sung by Gloriæ Dei Cantores, a 40-voice
choir from the USA...
» more
The Spirit Of China
May 2009
With China very much in the news these days, this was a very
interesting read, if at times rather confusing...
» more
Hillytown Biscuit Church
May 2009
What is it like to belong to a church? How does it feel to be
one of a very few children in a church? This delightful story
gives eight and three-quarter year old Nancy’s view...
» more
But is it Real?
May 2009
But is it Real? delivers exactly what it says it will in the foreword;
it helped me to see what the Christian faith has to say today
in the very current, modern thinking that society currently has...
» more
Freedom to Lead
May 2009
A rather uneven survey of things that can go wrong or become
unbalanced in an ordained minister's life...
» more
Liberating the Bible
May 2009
This is not a deep theological treatise. It could be read by
academics and non-academics...
» more
Creation or Evolution. Do We Have To Choose?
May 2009
The author of this book is a biochemist and a committed
Christian for whom the Bible is the inspired Word of God...
» more
Across The Divides – Chile
May 2009
Gill Williamson Smith has written a very hefty book, full of
insight into life in Chile from 1971-1980...
» more
Voice From the Hills
May 2009
I recently had to preach on prayer and, had I already read this
book, Greenslade’s section on The Lord’s Prayer would have
made the task easier...
» more
Deuteronomy – An Expositional Commentary
May 2009
Don’t be put off by the sub-title! This is simple enough to
read a chapter a day as a help in your devotions, yet profound
enough to give you a clear and reliable explanation of the
second (deutero) giving of God’s law to Israel, including all
those hard-to-swallow bits...
» more
Extra Special – For when someone you love dies
May 2009
How do we help children to understand about the death of
a beloved friend or family member?...
» more
Does God Approve of War?
May 2009
A brief investigation into a complex question which is all too
relevant today...
» more
David: A story of passion and tragedy
May 2009
Anthony Phillips has written a commentary that reads like a story...
» more
Leadership Gold
May 2009
Leadership Gold could also be described as John C. Maxwell's
Greatest Hits and it helped me to look at this book in this light...
» more
Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life (Revised)
May 2009
This book is a comprehensive look at its subject. It is easily
readable and so would appeal to everyone...
» more
Poor No More
May 2009
Peter Grant opens with ‘God wants people to be free from
poverty’...
» more
Tough Talk 2
May 2009
A follow up to 2000’s Tough Talk collection of stories, this new
volume records the biographies of three newer members of the
Tough Talk Team: Joe Lampshire, Martyn Parrish and Simon
Pinchbeck...
» more
Darwin and God
May 2009
This is a timely reminder of the real Charles Darwin’s religious
faith and ideas (which bear little resemblance to what the
militant atheists would have us believe), and goes some way
to rescue the “historical Darwin” from the atheists’ hi-jacking.
» more
The Greatest of These is Love
May 2009
This beautifully produced hardback pocket book is an invitation to us to spend a month with St Paul...
» more
Sixty Minute Debt Buster
May 2009
Katie Clarke is a lawyer, seminar speaker and specialist on
debt; she is also Rob Parsons’ daughter and has inherited his
no-nonsense, relevant, easy-to-read style of writing...
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Living Sacrifice
May 2009
Integrity, courage, action, forgiveness - just four words used by
George Verwer to describe this book.
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Micah’s Challenge: the Church’s Responsibility to the Global Poor
May 2009
This forward thinking book is looking towards the future. From
the foreword, I gathered that our Prime Minister Gordon Brown
feels the same way.
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Praying for England: The heart of the Church
May 2009
Not at all what I expected from the title but a collection of essays from Anglican priests and theologians, most of them having served as parish priests...
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Confirmation Book for Adults
May 2009
Designed for individuals or groups preparing for or thinking about confirmation in the Church of England, this book is excellent in many ways...
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Mend the Gap
May 2009
If you wonder about ‘Youth’ - don’t understand them, don’t know how to understand them, don’t understand where they are at and why they don’t come to church – please get this book and devour it...
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John Stott at Keswick
May 2009
This is a gem of a book to be read slowly and a chapter at a time in one session. The book consists of some of John’s preaching at Keswick Conventions over a period of 40 years...
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Extreme Righteousness
May 2009
Jesus often preached against the Pharisees' legalistic faith, but many modern spiritual teachers have repeated that criticism when talking about the Christian majority of today...
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The Forbidden
May 2009
This novel was an interesting window into the world of the Amish people of Pennsylvania (USA). Before reading this book I knew very little about the Amish, but the way that this story developed explained the way that they live and their beliefs quite clearly...
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Jack and the Wardrobe
May 2009
Jack is a troubled young man whose family is falling apart, leaving him confused and hurting. We follow him through a collision with a statue of CS Lewis and into a subsequent journey of discovery of the author...
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The Canterbury Book of Spiritual Quotations
May 2009
From ‘acceptance’ to ‘worship’ this is an extremely comprehensive anthology of spiritual quotations gleaned over many years by William Sykes...
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Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes
May 2009
The purpose of this book is to remind us that Jesus was born and lived in a specific historical and cultural setting...
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Given by God
May 2009
This is the second book in a trilogy by the author and it seeks to lead the reader into the joy of Bible Study...
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Following God with All Your Heart
May 2009
This brand-new American release indirectly shows how Biblical principles are still relevant to this age. Elizabeth George gently insists that that it is so very important to read God’s Word and to treat the Bible as a ‘constant diet’ for the soul...
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Battling Unbelief
May 2009
This book contains the application chapters from Future Grace and Piper hopes that by studying these, the reader will want to look at the much larger and deeper book for more understanding...
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Life With God
May 2009
The best-selling author of Celebration of Discipline and Prayer sets out to help ordinary readers to experience deeper transformation of their inner lives through serious approaches to the reading of the whole Bible...
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Planetwise: Dare To Care For God's World
May 2009
Dave Bookless is the National Director of A Rocha UK. It is a Christian based agency described (in this book) as an “international conservation organisation working to care for God's world”...
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Losers, Loners, and Rebels: The Spiritual Struggles of Boys
April 2009
Lads aged 10-14 are confused by society’s mixed messages
about what is expected of them as males.
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Reasons to Believe
April 2009
Several years ago I grew tired of the seeming superficiality and
noisiness of big evangelical gatherings...
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Rainbows and Promises
April 2009
This heart-warming little book gives refreshment and comfort
like a good cup of tea.
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Rob Frost: Reflections on a Life Well Lived
April 2009
In this book nineteen people write movingly of Rob Frost’s
influence on their lives...
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Lorna
April 2009
A good Christian book is a delight to read and share – uplifting,
insightful, inspirational...
» more
Real Life Jesus
April 2009
The author has really thought through what it means to live as a
Christian...
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Understanding Intelligent Design
April 2009
This is a book we have needed for some while, defining exactly
what ID is and what it is not...
» more
The Gospel According to Cannon and Ball
April 2009
For fans of Cannon and Ball, this collection of material will strike
a familiar chord, written as it is in a flighty dialogue between the
two.
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Missions and Money: Revised and Expanded
April 2009
In revising and expanding the 1991 edition, Bonk examines the
relationship between missionary work and affluence.
» more
Helen Sloane’s Diary
April 2009
Jeff Lucas takes a humorous look at what life might be like
as Helen Sloane, a single Christian in her twenties.
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Addicted to Love - From Rehab to Heaven?
April 2009
If you know anyone who has an addiction of any sort, or
perhaps you yourself have, then this book is for you...
» more
The Legacy of Billy Graham
April 2009
Billy Graham. The name says it all. Or does it?...
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101 Games that Keep Kids Coming
April 2009
Although published for the American market, so that the reader
will have to transfer some of the material to a British context...
» more
Did I Hear The Voice of God?
April 2009
The story of a dedication to help the homeless, year in and year
out for over a decade, will be an inspiration to many...
» more
The Flower of Grass
April 2009
This is the author’s first novel, though he has been a singer and
songwriter for many years.
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Get a Life: Winning choices for working people
April 2009
This book is part of a series commissioned by the London
Institute for Contemporary Christianity on “Faith at Work”.
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The New Illustrated Children’s Bible
April 2009
This delightful Children’s Bible has some of the most charming
illustrations I have seen in a long while.
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The Grace Outpouring
April 2009
Imagine a House of Prayer in every town. Imagine churches filled
with Christians who want to bless others...
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The Rosary
April 2009
This is a welcome reissue in paperback of a book which is
well-researched and well-illustrated.
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Purity: The New Moral Revolution
April 2009
“This book takes a non-religious, gut-honest, fresh look at a
subject as old as Adam and Eve,” says the blurb
» more
7 Laws of Spiritual Success
March 2009
Any book by Selwyn Hughes is valuable for Christian teaching
and this is no exception.
» more
The Thirteenth Apostle: What the Gospel of Judas Really Says
March 2009
On receiving this book I thought, ‘Why do I need to know what
the Gospel of Judas really says’?
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English Spirituality - From 1700 to the Present Day
March 2009
This is the second volume of Gordon Mursell’s comprehensive
study and history of English Spirituality up to the modern
day.
» more
Jesus Brand Spirituality
March 2009
The key idea behind this book is that Jesus wants His religion
back so that it can be for the world again.
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The Cry of My Heart
March 2009
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Saint Paul, Friend of Jesus
March 2009
This informative children’s book tells the story of Saul who
became Paul.
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Chosen
March 2009
If you’ve read Child of the Covenant read this too...
» more
On the Edge of Pentecost
March 2009
This book gives an undoubtedly honest and clear biography
of one man’s walk with God
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Every Monday Matters
March 2009
An unusual book aimed at making Mondays matter by
suggesting activities to do on each Monday...
» more
Hope for the Future
March 2009
This is a collection of short pieces by a man who, at the time
of his death...
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No Easy Answers: Living with Suffering
March 2009
Barbara Baisley was among the first group of women to be
ordained priest in the Church of England.
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The Future of Atheism: Alistair McGrath & Daniel Dennett in dialogue
March 2009
This fascinating and frequently mind-stretching book resulted
from a debate...
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Going Public: The Life and Times of Elijah
March 2009
If I was going to do a Bible study with my home group 1 Kings
might not be my first choice...
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The Sudan Project
March 2009
Darfur may have slipped out of the news headlines...
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The Son Rises
March 2009
I had mixed feelings about this particular tract. I loved the way
the hardback edition was set out.
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Father Forgive: The forgotten F word
March 2009
One of the hardest aspects of our Christian walk is to forgive
those who have hurt and maligned us...
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Post-Charismatic?
March 2009
This is a book written particularly, though not exclusively,
for people who have been hurt through extremes...
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Jesus Christ: Prince of Preachers
March 2009
In many ways this is a landmark book for preachers and
those who listen to them!
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Go big with small groups
March 2009
There are some really great things about this book...
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Love never fails
March 2009
Before reading this book I knew next to nothing about ME
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Church as a Safe Place
February 2009
This book is subtitled A handbook confronting, resolving and
minimising abuse in the church...
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Wisdom and Ministry: the call to Leadership
February 2009
This is a book written by the Anglican Dean of Durham to the
Anglican church but I would unhesitatingly recommend it to
anyone in any sphere of Christian leadership...
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How to Choose a Translation for All its Worth
February 2009
Although not an easy book to read, this is well worth persevering
with...
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The Diet Docs’ Guide to Permanent Weight Loss
February 2009
On reading this book I felt that there is nothing new on the
subject of weight control in these 250 pages...
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Live It! - Live it for Tweens - Bring a friend
February 2009
There are many resources out in the world for children’s and
youth work...
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Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree
February 2009
Do not be put off by the title of this book. This was a complete
surprise of a read...
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In The Eye Of The Storm
February 2009
Gene Robinson is known worldwide for one thing - his
sexuality...
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Just walk with me
February 2009
Just walk with me tells two stories side-by-side, moving from
one to the other over and over to give a bigger picture of what
is going on...
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The Re-enchantment of Morality
February 2009
This book, by the retired Bishop of Oxford and a leading church
ethicist, begins promisingly but I ended up underwhelmed...
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Rediscovering Paul
February 2009
I found the title Rediscovering Paul to be a misnomer...
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Jesus for President
February 2009
Jesus for President is quite possibly the best book I have read
this year and definitely the best designed...
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English Spirituality - From Earliest Times to 1700
February 2009
The thing that stands out the most about this book when you
first flick through it is the sheer number of Notes at the end of
each chapter...
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For This I Was Born
February 2009
I felt that an appropriate subtitle for this refreshing biography
might have been ‘Calling all Christians’...
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Getting Started with the Bible
January 2009
This is an excellent “guide for complete beginners”. In 178 pages the author can clearly only skim the surface of his subject, but it is difficult to imagine a better introductory book for the complete beginner...
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Jesus, Man of Many Names
February 2009
This was an interesting book. It does give you a fresh insight
into how the Jewish World sees Jesus; it also gave me a better
understanding of Judaism...
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The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics
February 2009
This book is a bit of a puzzle...
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The Courage to Connect
January 2009
This slim book is subtitled Becoming all we can be. The author is Dean of Women's Ministry for an area in the London Diocese...
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Hope & Healing for the Abused
January 2009
This book covers all the basics of abuse and is a good read if you are a victim of abuse or have an interest in helping people who have been abused...
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Haggai - An Expositional Commentary
January 2009
The book is attractive and readable and will appeal to both beginners and more advanced believers...
» more
Friendly dialogue between an Atheist and a Christian
January 2009
This book is a composite of recorded dialogues between Evangelist Luis Palau and scientist and Chinese diplomat Zhao Qizheng...
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A Broad Place: An autobiography
January 2009
What an inspiring biography of an inspiring man!
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My heart remembers
January 2009
I loved this book. It was so easy to read and just fl owed along as a good story should. I quickly identified with the main characters and could easily visualise the various scenarios...
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Paths of Peace
January 2009
This book contains fi fty two meditations – one for each weekand is made up of poems, prayers, quotations from the Bible and comments by the author...
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Conspiracy of Kindness
January 2009
Steve is a hardcore American evangelist. Communication of the Gospel is the order of his day and this brave man will stop at nothing to tell others about Jesus...
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Must Know Stories
January 2009
The author sets out to retell the ten Bible stories which research among teachers and parents has shown to be the most culturally significant and which, nevertheless, are in danger of being forgotten...
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Faith at the Edge
January 2009
This is a collection of essays written by a number of young(ish) Catholics but which should appeal to all ages. Whilst each story is unique, they are surprising and refreshing for their candour and, in some cases, searing honesty...
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The Call to Joy and Pain
January 2009
This book is a gem...
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A Room with a View
January 2009
St. Martin's in the Fields, an internationally known church located in a pivotal position overlooking Trafalgar Square, is famous for its work among the homeless; it is also a cultural centre and a mecca for tourists...
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Exposing Darwinism’s Weakest Link
January 2009
Darwin’s theory of evolution will be viewed as “...one of the great jokes in the history books of the future” claimed Malcolm Muggeridge in 1978. Since then a good many scientists have written to support that claim...
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On the Edge
January 2009
They say there is a book inside everyone. Well, this one should have stayed inside...
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I Want To Live These Days With You
December 2008
This is a very attractively presented collection of daily readings from the writings of German Theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer...
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The Secret to True Happiness
December 2008
According to the blurb on the back, Joyce Meyer has written more than 70 books and this is one of several I have read...
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The Good, The Bad & The Moral Dilemma?
December 2008
This is an up-to-date look at the various ethical and moral dilemmas we face both as individuals and as society in general on a regular basis...
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Understanding Children Understanding God
December 2008
This book encourages us to help children to share their child’s eye insights and spirituality with the adults around them, adults who may have become self-conscious about their own spirituality...
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Authentic Spiritual Mentoring
December 2008
As Kreider points out, there is a desperate need for people to mentor young Christians. Unfortunately, he doesn’t start to deal properly with that until halfway through the book...
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Where’s Molly Now?
December 2008
How can we help children to grieve when they are bereaved? This is a hard task for even the most accomplished children’s workers and ministers...
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Commentary on the New Testament use of the Old Testament
December 2008
“The New is in the Old - concealed; the Old is in the New - revealed.” We can’t properly understand one without the other...
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Film & Religion
December 2008
This is an extremely erudite book which analyses American films produced since 1945 to explain their religious imagery...
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Is John 3:16 the Gospel?
December 2008
Is John 3:16 the Gospel? is the sort of title to raise eyebrows in any church, probably promptly followed by the statement, 'Yes, of course'...
» more
Just Like Us
December 2008
This is a short easy to read book, each chapter based on a Bible character “just like us”...
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Yes, Lord
December 2008
This is a fascinating story of a man greatly used by God to influence many prominent people in his own country (USA) and further afield...
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Building Bigger People
December 2008
John Glass's book deserves to be read by all the church - not just those in leadership...
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Letting God be Judge
December 2008
The key issue in understanding this book is realising the difference, as the author explains it, between discernment and judgement...
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By the Light of the Lord's Prayer
December 2008
“This is a book like no other,” says the blurb; I agree. The book grew out of one man's love for and fascination with the Lord's Prayer...
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God is not Great
December 2008
Christopher Hitchens proclaims “Religion Poisons Everything” on the cover of his best-selling book. Those of us who have often said Christianity is not a religion, but a relationship, might tend to agree...
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A Future and a Hope
December 2008
A Future and a Hope: 1968 – thousands of unreached peoples, thousands of hurting lives. 2008 – thousands of unreached peoples, thousands of hurting lives...
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John Betjeman – on churches
December 2008
What a fascinating little book! It made me think - how many times have I been in an English church and just taken it for granted and whilst in there have I stopped to wonder who built it and why?
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Building Faith at Home
December 2008
Mr Holmen has some excellent points to make - primarily that children are most influenced at home. He says Christian parents need to grasp their opportunity to demonstrate and teach their faith in the home...
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Walking with God
December 2008
This is an intimate journal in which John Eldredge details a year of his own walk with God, using his experience to draw out principles which others can apply...
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Six-Day Creation: Does it matter what you believe?
December 2008
In some senses the question asked by the title of this book seems rather irrelevant to many contemporary Christians...
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An Agenda for Change
November 2008
This seems like a bit of awake up call to evangelicals as Edwards challenges the church to get back to being ‘good news’. He comments that “this life-giving and utterly generous Christ has become unrecognisably domesticated by evangelicals”...
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Surprised by Hope
November 2008
Wow, popular theologian Tom Wright takes on most of the major hymn writers, Anglicans, evangelicals, Adrian Plass and others, over the subject of heaven and the resurrected body. This is a fantastic book; deeply researched, beautifully crafted and profoundly challenging...
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What you always wanted to know about heaven but were afraid to ask
November 2008
Small chapters and lively format make this book accessible to a wide range of readers - particularly reluctant ones. Ten chapters range from “What’s all this talk about heaven” to “How I live now”...
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Every Secret Thing
November 2008
This is a novel about a lady who returns to her childhood school as a teacher, the memories this brings up for her and how she uses these to face her future...
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Why I love Jesus
November 2008
If someone had asked me why I love Jesus, I would have found it difficult to come up with 23 answers, but this is what Revd. Allred has done in this personal testimony...
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The Faith Of Barack Obama
November 2008
Although a short book, at around 140 pages (plus 45 pages of appendices including texts of speeches), it provides an excellent introduction to Barack Obama and the place that his Christian faith holds in his life...
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Practising the Principles of Prayer
November 2008
Practising the Principles is not a 'how to' book on prayer; Pawson stresses that, “It is the person who matters, more than the place or anything else, and the Master matters more than the method.”...
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I Wish I Was
November 2008
This little autobiography is not so much 'grim-lit' as 'hope-lit'. Its author, Anona Coates was abused sexually, physically and emotionally by the man she thought was her father...
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Community and Ministry
November 2008
This is a highly academic introduction to community development in a Christian context. It deals with what is meant by community, models of community work within ethnic...
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Hand of the Morningstar – Resurrection
November 2008
I am really not sure about the value of Manga-style graphic novels. This one may be just right for teenage boys who are reluctant readers...
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Dangerous Surrender: What happens when you say yes To God
November 2008
This book is an inspiration to Christians who are afraid to say Yes to God’s plans for their lives...
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Martha – A first word heroines book
November 2008
This one of a charming series of boardbooks re-telling the story of different Bible heroines...
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Reading Paul
November 2008
Scholarly academics who write masterworks on New Testament theology rarely turn their hand to more popular and accessible books for lay-readers and students, helping a far wider audience...
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The Truth behind the Secret
November 2008
After reading this excellent appraisal I would recommend it to anyone who has bought or is thinking of buying The Secrets...
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The Seven Wonders of the World
November 2008
This is a remarkable book. It succinctly and authoritatively deals with Creation, Redemption, Inheritance, Incarnation, Resurrection, Pentecost and Jesus’ future Glorious Appearing...
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Journey into Love - From Fear to Freedom
November 2008
This book describes the author’s journey and her walk of faith in mystical and feminine terms...
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Plan Be
November 2008
This is a short book which takes a look at the Beatitudes as rather more than just a poetic introduction to the Sermon On The Mount...
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The Last Week
November 2008
Easter is a special time of year for Christians – more important, even, than Christmas – and yet our understanding of the new life that it promises is often overwhelmed by our own sense of being unworthy...
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Authentic Parenting in a Postmodern Culture
November 2008
An insightful and thought-provoking book, challenging parents to examine the challenges of post-modern culture...
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Sacred Instincts
November 2008
The first couple of chapters started off reasonably well. Angela, the main character, is beautiful, intelligent and owns her own business...
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A Chronology of World Christianity
October 2008
It is gratifying to discover that in this age of online internetbased reference sources and databases, a publisher has still had the courage to produce a large hard-back reference book, of the kind that we all relied on up until very recently...
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Every Step Counts
October 2008
In the midst of the hustle and bustle of joining two families together, stop. Get this book, sit down together, read through it and apply its advice...
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What’s the Big Deal About Other Religions?
October 2008
Whilst not being a thoroughly comprehensive study of all world religions this book endeavours to give an account of the beliefs of some major faiths...
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Moving Towards Emmaus
October 2008
If you can persevere with this book you will eventually start to see the beauty of the two walkers to Emmaus and it will change the way you come to see the journey...
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The Evangelical Universalist: The biblical hope that God's love will save us all
October 2008
If you ask me, the title of this book is an oxymoron and shows how the term 'evangelical', which means a Christian who believes in the supremacy of scripture, has been devalued...
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Why You Can Have Confidence in the Bible
October 2008
Having just returned from a Bible conference, I could not have wished for a better book to review. Even before I was a Christian I believed the Bible to be true and would never have doubted its contents...
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Acts for Everyone Part 1
October 2008
Tom Wright’s ‘for Everyone’ series really is an excellent addition to commentaries in general. Acts for Everyone Part 1 is a fantastic commentary that continues to prove the series is a really accessible and open commentary that really will suit pretty much ‘everyone’...
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Acts for Everyone Part 2
October 2008
Part 2 of Acts for Everyone deals with Chapters 13 - 28, and like its predecessor ‘Part 1’ it continues to be one of the most accessible commentaries currently marketed...
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Jesus in Luke’s Gospel (Books 1-4)
October 2008
Jesus in Luke’s Gospel is a series of four books covering the complete Gospel of Luke. There’s a reading, thoughts, memory verse and pray suggestions...
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The Parables for Today
October 2008
This book looks at the various parables found in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke...
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Elisha: Encountering the messenger of salvation
October 2008
This book is part of the Day One Face to Face series which aims to be faithful to the Bible, God’s inerrant, infallible Word...
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The Truth Behind the New Atheism
October 2008
David Marshall goes a long way to reversing the usually weak-kneed approach of writers seeking to counter the “evangelical atheist” writers who are currently fashionable...
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Cheerful Madness
October 2008
This book is designed for people who are either in a relationship heading towards marriage, or those interested in love stories...
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The Bigger the Hair, the Closer to God
October 2008
‘If you are looking to hear from a woman who has walked through some dark places and decided to laugh out loud, this is the book for you!’ …
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Cold Tangerines
October 2008
This book gives the reader small snapshots of important events in the writer’s life, which are, rightly so, of importance to her...
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Totally Forgiving Ourselves
September 2008
It is not easy, is it, to forgive oneself? And to do so, totally? I have invariably been harsher on myself than on others. So Jesus' command “Love your brother as yourself” has been a difficulty and a mixed blessing...
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The Case for the Real Jesus
September 2008
Like most of Lee Strobel's other publications, this book is based on interviews with expert academics. It is designed to answer the latest criticisms of an orthodox view of faith...
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Recovering Jesus, the Witness of the New Testament
September 2008
This book is well written and a delight to read. Neufeld has a wonderful ability to write simply. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone, however. It's a book for thinking Christians; students, for example...
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Church on the Edge
September 2008
Troubled times, and a rapidly morphing spiritual climate, challenge and motivate us all to think clearly about building more missional, visionary and relevant churches that are not light on truth...
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The Quest for True Tolerance
September 2008
Stephen McQuoid expertly examines the modern-day view of tolerance and looks at how a so-called tolerant worldview can be far less tolerant than it initially appears...
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Cicely Saunders
September 2008
This is a very interesting biography of a remarkable woman. Dame Cicely Saunders was the founder of the modern hospice movement...
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I Dare You
September 2008
In her trademark robust and pragmatic style, Joyce challenges the reader to confront those obstacles that all too easily come between us and the life of fulfilment God wants us to have...
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From Guru To God
September 2008
This expanded version of The Experience of Ultimate Truth (2003) is a detailed account, by a truth-seeker who spent almost thirty years within the disciplines of Eastern religion (mostly Siddha Yoga)...
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Leadership: Reflections on Biblical Leadership Today
September 2008
I would suggest that this well-written book is aimed at thinking Christian leaders or ministers. I think that Greenslade's concept of leadership is such that anyone involved in Christian ministry...
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Understanding Children Understanding God
September 2008
With experience as both a teacher and a Vicar, Ronni Lamont is well placed to understand both the developmental and spiritual aspects of teaching children in a church setting...
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Live Wires: Powerful Stories of Changed Lives
September 2008
This book is a collection of short testimonies, told in the third person, about how fifteen different people from varying backgrounds and cultures found faith in Jesus...
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Iran. Open Hearts in a Closed Land
September 2008
Because of its geographical position and current political leadership, we tend to dismiss Iran as just another Muslim country antipathetic to Christianity and probably really just like Iraq or Pakistan...
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This is our Church: A history of Catholicism
September 2008
This is the story of the Catholic Church and of God's special presence in the world through its witness over the last two thousand years...
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Defending Christian Zionism
September 2008
This book was written in response to a book by Stephen Sizer against Christian Zionism which contained a short sermon by John Stott. In Defending Christian Zionism Pawson seeks to refute...
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Field Guide to Harry Potter
September 2008
Do NOT read this book if you want to enjoy the Harry Potter stories to find out ‘what happens next’. DO read this book for a clear and well-argued explanation of the Christian themes...
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Journey Into The Miraculous
September 2008
I approached this book with great interest; the opening chapter sets the tone, the belief that Bentley’s prophetic/healing ministry is part of an end time harvest...
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The Gods of War
September 2008
This is a timely book. As the title suggests, it addresses a fundamentally important question concerning the place of religion in violent conflict...
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The Road Trip - The Bloke's Bible
September 2008
If you liked Hopwood’s first book ‘The Bloke’s Bible’, then this is for you. This time he deserts his beloved pub The Cutter’s and takes off for a weekend with just a backpack and essential provisions...
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Soul Banquets: How meals become mission in the local congregation
September 2008
Think about it - How many biblical encounters with Jesus happen over meals? What are the implications for our church life? How does this relate to our Eucharistic liturgies?...
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Creating a Prodigal-Friendly Church
September 2008
In Exodus Ch18 (vv17-22) Jethro (Moses father-in-law) did a brilliant management consultancy job. He told his son-in-law three things, 1) there’s a problem, 2) here’s why, and 3) and here’s the solution...
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The Kindness of God
August 2008
Janet Soskice's book is a collection of essays covering topics as diverse as feminism, being the image of God, friendship, blood and defi lement, calling God 'Father' and more...
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The New Atheists
August 2008
This book is a valuable new contribution to the current debate on society, science and religion. Beattie is not concerned to show who as the ‘right’ answers, but rather to illuminate the nature of the debate...
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Adam
August 2008
There’s lots of good Christian fi ction around but it’s virtually impossible to get non-Christians to read it because it’s overtly Christian...
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Relentless
August 2008
I really enjoyed this novel. The title suggests a fast paced work and it certainly lives up to it. The story is about Grant Borrows, (or is it Collin Boyd?) and the friends...
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Christian Prayer through the Centuries
August 2008
The Alcuin Club is a learned society of liturgical scholars, and their publishing series (through SPCK) provides important texts for study...
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Changing your world one diaper at a time
August 2008
From the author of From Blushing Bride to Wedded Wife comes a refreshingly honest look at another significant time in a woman's life - those early months as a new mum...
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Just get up out of your seat: Billy Graham
August 2008
Although Trailblazers is a popular series in our bookselling world, this is the fi rst one I have read. Starting with a very limited knowledge of Billy Graham I now feel not only knowledgeable...
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Change Agents
August 2008
In this book Steve Chalke steers a path away from the controversy of his last book and into fairly safe territory - that of the difficulties in running a church or other Christian project in the 21st century...
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Opening Up 2 Peter
August 2008
The Opening Up series is designed to be accessible for Christians who want to find out more about a given book, but fi nd other commentaries too daunting...
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The Heavenly Party
August 2008
Whoopee! It’s party time – more often, more godly and more necessary than we may have expected in our church life...
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Dancing with God
August 2008
When medieval church leaders banned dancing from the church in order to preserve the rock fl oors, they made a big mistake!...
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Becoming a Contagious Church
August 2008
If you are a fan of Willow Creek this book will not disappoint – it will actually do what it says on the cover, and increase your church's evangelistic temperature...
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Deep Calls to Deep - Going further in prayer
August 2008
This is not an easy read, and not suggested for those who are not good at reading, or new to the Christian walk. Foster's writing style can be somewhat confusing...
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12 Disciples: Young people's stories of crisis and faith
August 2008
12 Disciples discusses 12 stories of modern day disciples and one of a disciple from Jesus’ own time, Peter. The stories are easy to read and vary in scenario...
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The Kids Hymnal: 80 Songs and Hymns
August 2008
Produced for the American market, this children’s hymnbook includes full words and a melody line. The majority of featured hymns are traditional, and not those often used with children’s groups these days...
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Holy dreams to feed the soul
August 2008
I read Hewitt’s earlier book Making Holy Dreams Come True and was not particularly impressed. This book, however, seems to me to be more finely honed...
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Celebrations! All Age Worship
August 2008
What have stinging nettles got to do with the resurrection?.......If you don’t know buy a copy of this book. It contains 8 all-age friendly ideas for celebrations through the church year...
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Googling God
August 2008
Confronted with an angry young woman who was keen to inform me that she had no belief in God, I was unsure what to do...
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Stories for Children: A practical resource for worship leaders
August 2008
This book contains fifty children’s talks, aimed at primary school age children (5-12)...
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Kingdom Come: The Local Church As A Catalyst For Social Change
August 2008
As someone who believes in both demonstrating the love of God and proclaiming the gospel, I found Duncan's virtual silence on the latter disappointing...
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Philemon
August 2008
Christopher Brearley was given the “mission impossible” by being asked to write a seven-session booklet on Philemon – all 25 verses!...
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Family All Age Worship
August 2008
This is the second book of 8 all age worship resource ideas written in the same style as Celebrations! All Age Worship...
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Science's Blind Spot
August 2008
This is an interesting book but somehow lacking a complete focus. The author is clearly a learned scientist with a good knowledge of the history of science but...
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On the Front Line
August 2008
I was excited when I saw this book. A father and son writing together, and with their combined experience of ministry, I was eager to see what they had to say...
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The Book of Mary
August 2008
Is it because I am an evangelical that I cringe at reading a book about Mary? After all I read books about other Bible characters in order to get a deeper insight into their lives...
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The Shack
July 2008
So what is all the fuss about then? Quite simply this is an amazing novel, keeping this reader engaged throughout, with some interesting twists at the end...
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Northern Storm Rising
July 2008
This is the first time I have come across a book by Ron Rhodes, but what a brilliant introduction! He has done a very thorough investigation into the state of the world today, especially the Middle East...
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What Jesus demands from the World
July 2008
It is easy to wander away from Jesus and focus one’s eyes on other aspects of our faith. In 50 chapters, each tackling one ‘demand’, John Piper thoughtfully redresses the balance...
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All Shall Be Well
July 2008
This book suffers because of its lack of length. Any book approaching the topic of suffering won't be long enough, of course, to cover the huge area and vast impact of suffering...
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Opening up Titus
July 2008
This book is a study on the pastoral book of Titus written by the Apostle Paul to his spiritual son, Titus. It is a close study on certain important themes that are relevant to every Church...
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Peter - The Mature Man
July 2008
I approached this book with such excitement as I saw it as an exploration of Peter's journey in faith. Peter faced tremendous challenges, stumbled and failed at times, but through it all his faith kept growing...
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Word from Wormingford – A Parish Year
July 2008
This book was a delight to read. I had not encountered Ronald Blythe’s writing before although he has written many books...
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The Ancient Path
July 2008
This book represents the author's 10-year spiritual journey through the Old Testament. He is still only aged 33! He uses various characters and events (such as Abraham and the Creation) to give deeper possible insights...
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Foundations in Ritual Studies
July 2008
The blurb on the back cover states ‘Ritual Studies have huge potential for helping worship leaders to understand better the activity in which they are engaged’...
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Sacraments of Healing
July 2008
A love of the traditional sacraments of the Church of England shines through this. Chris Gower attempts to share their meanings in a well-researched account of the history of this particular church culture...
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Caring for Mother : A Daughter’s Long Goodbye
July 2008
Living more than 500 miles from her parents meant that caring for her mother with dementia wasn’t going to be easy. So Virginia leaves her family and stays in a house near her parents in order to care for them...
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Candle Read and Share Bible
July 2008
The difference this Bible has from many other Bibles for small children is that it comes with a basic question at the end of each story to help make conversation...
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Five Sacred Crossings
July 2008
This is an interesting approach to apologetics through the medium of fiction. The central character is a Christian professor teaching on a comparative religion course...
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One in a Million
July 2008
A Christian middle-aged lady in Lowestoft contracts a rare medical condition - Pseudomyxoma Peritonei - that affects one in a million...
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Danny Gospel
July 2008
David Athey’s debut novel is set in post September 11th United States, hinting at this traumatic event and the anthrax scares which followed close behind it...
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Messy Church
June 2008
Fresh expressions of church are designed for those on the outside or edge of the Christian community. Messy Church is a “must have” for anyone – clergy, children’s workers, creative people - serious about reaching people on the edges...
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Total Church
June 2008
This worthwhile book seems mainly addressed to conservative evangelicals who are tempted to take too individualistic an approach to salvation and the church...
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Ways to live forever
June 2008
“I’m going to fi nd out the answers to all the questions that nobody answers,” says Sam at the beginning of this book. He is eleven and knows he is dying of leukaemia, so he wants to know how to tell if you are dead, why God lets kids get ill and what does a dead person look like...
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Rebuilding Jerusalem
June 2008
The author, the Bishop of Wakefi eld, says that his vision is of a church that recaptures the hearts of people, renews confidence in God, reaches out to the poor and recovers a sense of mystery...
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Spirituality in Patient Care
June 2008
Research shows that an individual's religious beliefs can have a positive effect on their health and this book seeks to encourage the healthcare professional to take a 'spiritual history' and to work with the patient's beliefs...
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Bit Part players of the Bible
June 2008
This book gives a real insight into various people of the Old Testament who are not 'main' characters as such. It features many 'minor' characters including various Kings and Prophets, clearly explaining ‘Who was Who’, ‘Who did What’ and how various people fitted into the ‘Bigger Picture’...
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Preaching like a Woman
June 2008
Susan Durber is a minister in the United Reformed Church and a feminist theologian. She has written a powerful book, setting out her strong views on women’s ministry...
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Suicide – Pastoral responses
June 2008
Gritty, graceful and down-right great! This work presents a collection of strategies for responding to individuals at risk of suicide and those families affected by suicide...
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Spurgeon’s Sermons on Jesus and the Holy Spirit
June 2008
There can be little doubt that Charles Spurgeon was one of the greatest preachers of his day. This compilation of his sermons on Jesus and the Holy Spirit gives a glimpse into the wealth of material generated by Spurgeon in his preaching career...
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Release of the Spirit
June 2008
I approached this book with some trepidation, given that it is described as a classic in print for over half a century. However, I can only express my view, which is that its quirky and sometimes confusing English...
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Searching for the Original Bible
June 2008
How many times are you asked questions about the accuracy of the Bible? This is often the first barrier to effective evangelism...
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Opening Up Malachi
June 2008
This is another excellent little book in Day One’s ‘Opening Up’ series. As with other volumes it’s well written, very reasonably priced and relevant to the modern day reader...
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For Parents Only
June 2008
The authors have put together some very enlightening facts from surveys and interviews with a cross section of teenagers in the USA...
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Keep Taking the Tablets: A Prescriptive Guide to the Ten Commandments
June 2008
Carr is quite right in saying that, although as Christians we live under the covenant of grace, we are not free from God's moral law...
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Praying - Finding our way from duty to delight
June 2008
I have never found praying as much as a duty as reading this book! It felt like a textbook for a college course on prayer and if that's the authors’ intention then it could be helpful, but it does need to be clearer about this on the cover...
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Why Guys Need God
June 2008
How I have got to the threshold of 52 years old without reading this book is a mystery. It has shown me myself, past, present and future...
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The New Faces of Christianity
June 2008
This book is a companion volume to Jenkins' highly successful The Next Christendom which looked at the position of Christianity in the global south...
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All God’s Children
June 2008
All children have religious and spiritual experiences, though they may lack the religious understanding or language to express it...
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Condemned
June 2008
A frank autobiography that traces Mark Rowan’s life from notorious career criminal to full-time Christian worker. The author recounts tales of a troubled childhood, difficult family background, school truancy...
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Being Human .. Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials
June 2008
To enjoy and really understand this book you have to have read the trilogy of Philip Pullman or it will have not have so much to offer you...
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Frida: Chosen to Die, destined to Live
May 2008
With the vast number of books I get sent, occasionally one slips through the net and I wonder why I didn’t read it when it arrived. This is one such book...
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Faith has its Reasons – 2nd Edition
May 2008
This thorough examination of four differing views of Christian apologetics and an integrative approach is grounded fi rmly in the Bible...
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Faith & Freedom: The Christian Challenge for the World
May 2008
George W Bush and former president, Jimmy Carter, both profess a strong Christian faith but their philosophies are radically different. Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, advocates diplomacy to resolve international conflict; Bush took America and its allies into Afghanistan and Iraq...
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Everyday Prayer
May 2008
This is an excellent book containing a form of Daily Office, prayers, psalms, canticles, Old and New Testament readings and collects...
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Dynamic Diversity - The new humanity church for today and tomorrow
May 2008
The major theme of this book is concerned with true unity within a church where there is much diversity. People may be connecting through communication, but is there cohesion?
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Letter from a Christian Citizen
May 2008
Occasionally I pick up a book that makes me want to cheer. This book is defi nitely in that category. Douglas Wilson has responded to Sam Harris’ book, Letter to a Christian Nation a US secular best seller...
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The Truth Behind the New Atheism
May 2008
This book is a response to four atheists, namely, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens. It is presumably written for people who have read or heard these men (which I confess I haven't). However, I found it both readable and interesting...
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Freedom from the Past, Freedom for the Future
May 2008
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Doing the Right Thing
May 2008
Sadly, this is Rob Frost’s last book following his death last November. In it he looks at ten issues which he says Christians should be concerned about and take a stand upon...
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Dictionary of Mission Theology
May 2008
I initially wondered what variety of dictionary they’d think of next but this is a fascinating reference tool. Firstly because of its content: thinking about the world from the perspective of mission, brings articles on AIDS, church planting, human rights and relations with other religions...
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God's Continent
May 2008
Using statistics and looking through the history of Christianity in Europe, Jenkins argues that, despite the increase in secularisation and the reduction in numbers of believers, Christianity is still overwhelmingly the majority religion in Europe and likely to stay that way...
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Compassionate Caregiving
May 2008
Practical help and spiritual encouragement are often something that we need to top up on! The decades of pastoral ministry and family care-giving are evident in what Knutson offers by way of encouragement and assistance to caregivers...
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Learning to use my Bible – teacher’s Guide
May 2008
A book which calls itself “a special study for children in grades 3 and 4” has to be American and this has a very American feel to it...
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Against All Odds: God at work in an impossible situation
May 2008
As Goldsmith writes, with the help of fi rst-hand accounts, of the developing church in Malaysia, one cannot fail to be impressed by the commitment of those called to work in this place...
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The Desert Mothers
May 2008
The phrase ‘Desert Mothers’ was new to me, but according to the author, they lived during the fourth century after a period of martyrdom and when faithful Christians were distressed by the church’s growing alliance with the state...
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The Christian in an Age of Terror
May 2008
I wonder if there are Christians today who might not be familiar with the works of Dr Lloyd-Jones. If so, this book would be a good introduction...
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Every Step Counts
May 2008
Every Step Counts is an excellent book about step-relationships. It is badly needed at this time when we struggle to cope with broken and re-formed families...
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Man of God
May 2008
The Bible has an opinion concerning the role of men, but there aren’t many brave enough to preach on this subject, while many sermons are biased towards the gender of the preacher. Although both authors are male, this is not a pro-male study guide that should be used in a single sex house group...
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Longing for More - A woman’s path to transformation in Christ
May 2008
“No matter what our circumstances…we still need to ask ourselves, what have I come to the kingdom for?” says Ruth Haley Barton. In Longing for More, she examines what it is to be a Christian woman and what it can be...
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Why do People Suffer?
May 2008
The Bishop of Liverpool has updated the 1st (1997) edition, in the wake of 9/11 and the Asian Tsunami. Beautifully illustrated with photographs, well-laid out quotations, and carefully selected Scripture passages, it oozes with the warmth and compassion of an experienced pastor...
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I'm Fine With God... It's Christians I Can't Stand
April 2008
This book is a refreshing call to authentic Christianity. It highlights many areas where Christians can become stumbling blocks to others, including judgemental attitudes, hypocrisy and condemnation; mixing politics and the Gospel; anti-science attitudes...
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Making the Most of Weddings: A Practical Guide for Churches
April 2008
Whether you are new to conducting weddings or have officiated at hundreds, it is helpful to have a recent ‘practical’ book on the shelf, and this book fits the bill...
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Walking with Gay Friends
April 2008
When I first received this book I didn’t want to read it. How glad I am that I did. Alex Tylee (a pseudonym) is a Christian who also happens to have a homosexual orientation...
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Serve God Save the Planet
April 2008
I was severely challenged by the introduction as it reminded me that loving my neighbour as myself is incompatible with living in luxury while many suffer and die for want of basic necessities...
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Wrestling with Angels
April 2008
Rowan Williams is a well-published theologian but the appeal of this book would be strictly to the intellectual and the academician. It critiques and quotes and discusses those people the average Christian would not be familiar with...
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BST New Testament CD-ROM
April 2008
The Bible Speaks Today is a well established and much appreciated series of commentaries by a variety of evangelical scholars and pastors covering every book of the Bible...
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After the Heavy Rain
April 2008
This book is a powerful journey from unforgiveness to forgiveness. The author shares his innermost emotions, thoughts and feelings, taking us through the processes he himself...
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How to be Heard in Heaven
April 2008
This authoritative and encouraging guide to prayer is an asset to any bookshelf. Whatever the level of our prayer life, there is something here to inform and encourage the reader to grow still further in this core discipline...
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SPOOKED: Talking about the Supernatural
April 2008
The specific aim of this book is to equip people to have more productive conversations with friends, colleagues and family who watch films and T.V. programmes, or who read books with underlying spiritual themes...
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Samson: Man of Strength, Man of Weakness
April 2008
Part of a series titled People in the Bible, this is essentially a systematic Bible study of the life of the Old Testament hero Samson, contrasted throughout with the life of Christ...
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Exploring Prayer
April 2008
I really loved this great little book. It is not heavy and does not take long to read through. It is exactly as the title suggests...
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God’s Purpose For Every Woman
April 2008
This book contains 175 two-page readings aimed at women in today’s world who only have a short amount of time for their devotions...
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Hungry for Hope
April 2008
“If God is so good why is there so much pain, suffering and death?” As a pastor it’s a question Nick Baines has faced many times...
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You Mean That Isn't In The Bible?
April 2008
This book is a laudable attempt to look afresh at some beliefs to which people might hold that aren't actually true; these include 'God helps those who help themselves', 'believers are God's co-pilots', 'God wants you to be rich' and the rather bizarre 'when we die we become angels'...
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Life in the Fish Bowl
April 2008
Pastors battle with conflicting expectations. The most painful and personal of these conflicts is between the expectations of the people and the needs of their family...
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God's Own Country
April 2008
This is an engaging and insightful book, written by an Englishman, tracing American Christianity from the founding of the country until today...
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What’s the Big Deal About Jesus?
April 2008
There is something about a certain sort of American writer that almost guarantees a lucid, highly readable book – and this is no exception...
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Baroness Cox: Eyewitness to a Broken World
April 2008
If you’ve ever wondered why we need a second chamber in Westminster then read this book...
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Search for a father
April 2008
A testimony to the power of God and the change which God's love and grace can bring into being...
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Growing Souls
April 2008
It took a while to get into this book, which builds on Mark’s previous book Contemplative Youth Ministry and it may be best (although not necessary) to read the first book before this one...
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Abolition: Newton & Wilberforce
March 2008
Amongst the many books appearing this year to commemorate the abolition of the slave trade, Abolition is ideal for first-time readers on the subject...
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The Big Book of Bible Bloopers
March 2008
Containing some interesting facts about the Bible and Bible
translations, this is a rather variable book with a couple of
fascinating chapters, including different heresies, sects and
cults, and translation and printing errors...
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Supporting New Ministries in the local Church, a Handbook
March 2008
I found this a difficult book to review. I didn’t find it very
interesting but I can’t give it a totally negative review for
that reason as it is written for a very specific readership...
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Zion’s Christian Soldiers
March 2008
Sizer’s second instalment dealing with the topic of Christian
Zionism continues in much the same manner as the fi rst. In this book he attempts to deal with the relationship between Zionism and Bible prophecy from a theological perspective...
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Big Christianity
March 2008
In the USA, if you’re religiously ‘conservative’ it’s often the case that you’re politically so too. The media portray ‘fundamentalist Christians’ as right wing bigots full of hatred and intolerance...
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Discovering Peter and Jude
March 2008
This is a good basic Bible study guide aimed at the beginning to intermediate level which churches and home groups would find useful...
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A Human Jesus: Meditations and prayers through the year
March 2008
This is a collection of meditations and prayers centred on
Jesus, Son of Mary, Christ, Son of God and Son of Man...
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Mission-shaped Children
March 2008
The title and the book are designed to be thought-provoking.
Its content is what everyone with a heart for children longs to
see put into practice...
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Ever After
March 2008
The sequel to Even Now, Ever After picks up the story with
Emily, now twenty, falling in love with a soldier who is called up
for active service in Iraq...
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Unlocking the Bible
March 2008
The bulky appearance is somewhat off-putting, but the print,
layout and price compensate for this well...
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Braving the Storm: Survival Tactics
March 2008
In some ways this is a very hard book to read as Eric Gaudion gives a graphic insight into the constant pain he has endured over more than ten years. However, his optimism, coupled with a real, strong faith, makes this an encouraging story of God’s dealings with people in the midst of their suffering...
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Great Themes of the Bible Volume 1
March 2008
This is the first in a projected series of three books giving
an overview of selected topics that run through the Bible. At
first sight this appeared a rather dry and academic approach
to biblical study, but...
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Anne Boleyn - one short life that changed the English speaking world
March 2008
This short book on Anne Boleyn’s contribution to the church’s
history is part of the ‘History Today’ series. It is an interesting
summary of the importance of Anne Boleyn to Tudor history...
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The Immanuel Agenda
March 2008
Elizabeth Brazell has written quite comprehensively on many
aspects of suffering in the world today which affect individual
lives and sometimes affect thousands of people...
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Homeland Insecurity
March 2008
It is really hard to know where to start with this undistinguished book...
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How To Forgive … When You Don’t Feel Like It
March 2008
Few doubt the importance of forgiveness and this book is full of examples of how lack of forgiveness can cause real problems - and yet it is often hard to do...
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50 Seriously Funny Bible Sketches
March 2008
I like David Burt’s sketches. They’re not too long, have a good mixture of humour and pathos and are easily performable...
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The Cloud of unknowing for Everyone
March 2008
This book is an adaptation of a classic about contemplative
prayer. The Cloud of Unknowing was originally written by an
unknown author in the 14th century...
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Talent is Never Enough
March 2008
O dear, another self help book by John Maxwell to ‘teach us
how to be a real success’...
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The Ministry of the Missional Church
March 2008
I struggled to read this book. The language is convoluted and
repetitive.
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The War On Terror - How Should Christians Respond?
February 2008
Nick Solly Megoran’s book offers the conclusion “peacefully” to his question “How should Christians respond to terror?” and he illustrates this through Bible passages and stories...
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Everything Must Change
February 2008
Fans of Brian McLaren will not be disappointed by this new book which takes a long hard look at the hope for the world offered through the Gospel...
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Betrayed!
February 2008
What’s the theme tune of your church, “All you need is love” or “Love is the greatest thing”? The reprint of this classic account of a Jewish family’s struggle to come to terms with...
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Global Warning
February 2008
Although I have some interest in biblical prophecy/eschatology (i.e. the study of the end times), I don’t read many books of this genre. This book is most likely to appeal...
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After Genocide: There is hope
February 2008
Mary Weeks Millard has been visiting Rwanda regularly since 2001 under the auspices of Signpost International, a Christian organisation which cares for families and children at risk.
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When the Game is Over It All Goes Back in the Box
February 2008
In his usual style Ortberg meanders through his chosen topic with an extensive use of quirky tales, childhood memories and hard hitting allegories.
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Pete's Story
February 2008
A compelling, inspiring read. Ghandi-like, we are given the ‘final’ scene first: Pete Jackson is gunned down in cold blood one morning in Kenya - a vigorous, likeable young man...
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The Skeptical Passionate Christian
February 2008
Is it possible to be both passionately Christian and yet retain a healthy scepticism about the journey of faith, the place of the church and the nature of God?
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God's Undertaker
February 2008
The subtitle asks, ‘Has Science Buried God?’ Atheists shout ‘Yes!’ with a zeal which is almost religious, based on their own suppositions. John Lennox, a Maths expert, exposes the philosophical and scientific flaws in their arguments...
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The Use of Symbols in Worship
February 2008
The Alcuin Club is a fairly scholarly and mainly Anglo-Catholic liturgical organisation, and as such it is no surprise that this book limits itself to the traditional Christian symbols...
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I could sing of your love forever
February 2008
With forewords written by Matt Redman and Darlene Zschech this new book by Delirious? is a must for any fan.
» more
Opening Up Jonah
February 2008
A new volume in Day One’s ‘Opening Up’ series tackles the short, but very well known book of Jonah.
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The Cross and the Colliery
February 2008
This little book from the Bishop of Durham contains the series of talks he gave during a week long pilgrimage he made with the people of Easington Colliery during Holy Week 2007.
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The Whole World Will Rejoice: New Worship resourses for Justice and Hope
February 2008
This book will appeal to those who like prayers which might seem more formal in style, but are radical in content.
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Sex: God's Truth
February 2008
The church’s standards in sexual matters are allegedly better than those of the world, yet often a distance from God’s standards...
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Beauty & Brokenness
February 2008
Do you think that in Heaven everyone and everything is perfect and whole?
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The Popular Encyclopaedia of World Religions
February 2008
In his introduction Wolff observes, “Books on world religions ... by and large ignore history”. He then sets out to make amends...
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Notes on the Book of Genesis
February 2008
‘CHM’, as he is affectionately called by the Christian Brethren, wrote the first volume of his Notes on the Pentateuch in 1861...
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The Real Story of the Gospels
February 2008
Eaton’s book is part of his project to write his systematic theology; this section focuses on the life of Jesus...
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Men Worth Knowing
February 2008
Bible reading notes for men are desperately needed...
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Fight the Good Fight
January 2008
Readers of Catherine Fox’s fiction may feel they are on familiar ground here.
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Busy Christian Living: Blessing not Burden
January 2008
Emma has written an engaging and exhausting book.
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Big Boys Don’t Cry
January 2008
The story of a boy with a dream who climbed from obscurity to fame in the world of pop...
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Knowing God the Father through the Old Testament
January 2008
Wright invites us to take two important journeys.
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Warrior Chicks
January 2008
Despite the striking cover this is a strangely abrupt and disjointed book, evidenced instantly by the author’s unusual writing style...
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Glory Days : Living the whole of your life for Jesus
January 2008
This book has changed the way I view life!
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The Penny
January 2008
Joyce Meyer’s first novel, The Penny, is inspired by her childhood journey from abuse and despair to a life of faith, confidence and passion.
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Worship and the Presence of God
January 2008
At first glance, the book seemed too big for the contents.
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Making Holy Dreams Come True
January 2008
This is a short book of prayers and meditations with illustrating photographs...
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Liturgies for the young in years
January 2008
The title of this book, I believe, is unclear and its contents much the same.
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The Legend Of The Firefish
January 2008
Pirates, sea-monsters and a struggle of faith.
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The Gospel According to Star Wars
January 2008
Written with clarity and subtlety, this book is a must for fans of the Star Wars films, whether they are people of faith or not.
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The Most Important Person on Earth
January 2008
This book takes 287 pages of repetitious, verbose prose to do what Wayne Grudem does in 15 pages in his Systematic Theology.
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Treasures of the King
January 2008
Alec has obviously studied and prayed over these Psalms on numerous occasions and his knowledge and understanding makes the book an informative and enjoyable read.
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The Power and the Glory
January 2008
He had it all. Not only was he a successful businessman and happy family man...
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Thank God It’s Friday
January 2008
Great insights, bringing some interesting thoughts into the message of the Cross.
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Sarah’s Secret Scribblings
January 2008
Bubbly Sarah is a member of the Topz Gang who feature in the Bible notes produced for 7-11 year olds by CWR.
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Misquoting Truth
January 2008
Jones has written this book as a rebuff to Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman.
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The Life and Work of a Priest
January 2008
The title tells you the kind of person who might enjoy this book - someone thinking of entering the Anglican ‘priesthood’.
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The Confident Woman
December 2007
With Joyce Meyer’s special gift of communication, this book is packed with help for overcoming fears, insecurities and anxieties, and is suitable for men as well as women.
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The Expresso Bible
January 2008
Perhaps this little book would be more aptly named “The espresso introduction to parts of the Bible”.
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Encounters
December 2007
For whatever reason, some of us do not have those jawdropping experiences of God that we hear of but then cannot recall when we need them for our own encouragement or to provide ammunition in our conversations.
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One Heart and Soul
December 2007
At the outset it needs to be said that when the author speaks of community, as in the subtitle (‘Christian community for the 21st century’),
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Faith & Film
December 2007
McNulty’s love of film and his belief that churches can harness cinema’s contribution to contemporary culture come across very strongly in this book.
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Crossing - Reclaiming the Landscape of Our Lives
December 2007
The author is one of the Benedictine monks from Worth Abbey (Sussex) featured in the TV series, The Monastery
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Strategic Prayer : Applying the power of targeted prayer
December 2007
Every Christian wants to be more effective in prayer. But what does that mean?
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On Prayer
December 2007
This is not a book that I would have been inclined to pick up and read.
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How to be heard in a Noisy World
December 2007
In a world filled with ever more professional presentation in all walks of life, churches are often far behind the times in our communications.
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Seek the Face of God
December 2007
From the moment we are born we begin to create an image of our Heavenly Father from our own experience of parents.
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Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce
December 2007
This timely little book considers some of the major Christian influences on the life and thinking of William Wilberforce.
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Seeing Jesus
December 2007
Considering how many people respond more to images than words, this collection of six ‘Bible study and house group’ sessions is long overdue, reminding us of the riches of imagery available through the many traditions of Christian Faith.
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3: 16 The Numbers of Hope
December 2007
There are many fans of Max Lucado who wait patiently for his latest offering.
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The Tide is Turning
December 2007
This new volume from Terry Virgo examines the lives of Joseph, Gideon and Nehemiah
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Resurrection
December 2007
The resurrection of Jesus has meanings and significances of various kinds – to paraphrase Nancy Pearcey – but only if it actually happened; this seems to be the basis of this excellent book.
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The Deafening Sound of Silent Tears
November 2007
This is the story of the work of Caring for Life, a charity started in 1987 by Peter Parkinson and a small, dedicated team from a church in Leeds.
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Walking on Water and other Bible Stories
December 2007
The stories in Walking on Water are introduced by children from the time of Jesus.
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People in the Passion of Jesus
November 2007
They say: “Don’t judge a book by its cover”. The trouble is, people do.
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Return of the Guardian King
November 2007
‘A powerful novel in an award-winning allegorical series’. The completion of the epic series Legends of the Guardian- King. Kiriath and the surrounding countries have fallen under the control of the ‘shadow’
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The Storyteller’s Companion to the Bible - Volume 11: The Parables of Jesus
November 2007
I approached this book with interest because although this is Volume 11 of the series, this is my first taster. The cover was a bit off-putting’ as the book is aimed at storytelling for a modern audience.
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Taking the Plunge – Baptism and Parenting
November 2007
Written from an American Episcopalian (Anglican) perspective, this book explaining infant baptism for parents and godparents will have a limited market.
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A night out with the boys
November 2007
“A remarkable true story of hope” it says on the cover. “I couldn’t put this book down”, writes Graham Daniels of Christians in Sport in his foreword.
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A Geography of God
November 2007
This is more of a road map than a geography book, a map to guide us to God whom Lindval describes as “a Being passionate and tireless in pursuit of relationship”.
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Evangelical and Evolving : following the Gospel in a changing world
November 2007
This is a fascinating account of autobiographical theology, explaining the author’s development from a conservative to an open evangelical stance.
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Celebrating Community
November 2007
A discussion-starter on the subject; feels like an in-house publication wanting to be let out. Those studying church and community may not want to start with a case study of a unique context - Lee Abbey- written from that certain sector of church.
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The Hungry Always Get Fed
November 2007
This book tells of a year in the amazing work of the Iris Ministries, which was started by this couple in 1995, works mainly in Mozambique and has planted more than 6000 churches in Mozambique alone.
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Mary Magdalene Understood
November 2007
Is it possible to understand the Mary Magdalene of the gospels? The authors of this book seek to peel away the tradition and confusion over this woman
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How to Become a Saint
November 2007
This book has a good title and is a good book. The style of writing is very clear and is easy to read but it also contains much wisdom.
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Exploring the Bible : Habakkuk
November 2007
This expositional commentary of Habakkuk gives a good overview of the prophecy with a good, albeit brief introduction, as the author looks at some historical background considering its authorship and message.
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No More Jellyfish, Chickens or Wimps
November 2007
Paul Coughlin argues that today’s children are taking longer to become adult - whether we mean living outside the parental home or becoming financially independent.
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Creation to Revelation: A brief account of the biblical story
November 2007
The most interesting aspect of this book is the grey boxes/ sidebars, which offer interesting insights along with facts and figures throughout this read.
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Through Mark’s Eyes
November 2007
At last – I have wanted to read this book my entire life! I cannot express enough how much I loved reading Puck Purnell’s retelling of the Gospel of Mark.
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Behind the Scenes with Billy Graham
November 2007
I found this book interesting and informative. Anyone who has enjoyed the ministry of Billy Graham would enjoy this book as it takes the reader behind the scenes
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Integrity – Leading with God Watching
November 2007
This is a good and useful book. Lamb brings a study of 2 Corinthians to show Christian leaders the imperative of living a life consistent with their teaching.
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Exploring the Old Testament Vol 2
November 2007
I found that this book was well presented and clearly set out. The size of the pages and print are good and so are the various ‘think’ panels.
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The Ten Commandments: Laws of the heart
November 2007
The intention of this book is to look at the historical background and the present implications of the Ten Commandments.
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The Big Questions
October 2007
Jonathan Hill’s book is an excellently written discussion of many different philosophers’ views on big questions that have shaped the church including suffering, the nature of God, life after death...
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The Next Christendom
October 2007
This is an inestimably important book for Christians, and Christianity, in the West.
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Oxford and the Evangelical succession
October 2007
This is the story of five men associated with Oxford University (although two of the five, Newton and Scott, were not Oxford men at all!) who proved their mettle as spiritual leaders in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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The Gospel side of Elvis
October 2007
Joe Moscheo spent four years with Elvis as a performer and friend. In his preface he says that, as far as he knows, it’s the first time that the whole of a book has been devoted to the gospel side of Elvis.
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Secret cinema: Gnostic vision in film
October 2007
This American academic book is about Gnostic (with a capital G), alchemical (small a) and Cabbalastic (capital C) films and their place in our post modern society.
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Journey to the centre of your heart
October 2007
This book will stir the heart of the reader; it certainly touched my heart and got some wonderful truths firmly home.
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Thomas, the other gospel
October 2007
This is a scholarly but reasonably accessible exploration of the origins and message of the non-canonical gospel which came to be associated with the name of the apostle Thomas.
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Things we wish we had said
October 2007
This is a re-release of a collection of letters between Campolo and his adult son, Bart.
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Don't forget the angels
October 2007
This must have been a difficult book to write and I felt the author’s attempt to give a clear understanding about our Lord’s angels comes across as slightly difficult to read and understand.
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Be Somebody
October 2007
The aim of this book is to motivate and encourage those who wish to achieve what the author has achieved, namely material success and business leadership through becoming an entrepreneur.
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Singing through the night
October 2007
An excellent book, the description of this book is exactly what it contains and more. Companjen tells the true stories of many women all over the world who are bravely following Christ at any cost.
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Temptation and testing
October 2007
How do we become more like Jesus? This book looks at the range of temptations that come our way and encourages us to make positive choices.
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The Gospel of falling down
October 2007
The whole book is predicated on the assumption that it is a false understanding of Christianity to assert that “to be the perfect Christian means striving to become
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Through every storm
October 2007
Mills and Boon with sermons. OK, I admit it, this was quite hard to put down.
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Secret Believers: What happens when Muslims believe in Christ
September 2007
A clear Christian response to the well-publicised challenge of Islam is not easy to pin down.
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God at work
September 2007
This book is a distillation of many years of experience in the business world.
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The mission of God
September 2007
Every church in Britain will currently be engaged with some sort of mission – the real question is whether their missions are the same as God’s Big Mission.
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Mirror Images, Seeing Ourselves in Other People
September 2007
Mirror Images is a nice, slim, easy read, contemplative book written in the Celtic spiritual vein.
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The Courage to Run
September 2007
Jim Ryun was unknown to me before reading this book. An American mile and 1500 metre runner competing in the Olympics in the 1960s and 1972, he subsequently became a member of the US Congress.
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The enduring melody
September 2007
This book is Faith In Action. To face the pain and knowledge of what was to come with the courage shown by Michael Mayne is a true testimony...
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Days before Dibley
September 2007
This book is an enjoyable light read and, although funny in places, was actually also very sad in other places.
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The lost sheep
September 2007
This aptly titled book begins with the disappearance of Private Investigator Carlton Parker’s teenage daughter Callie.
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Life with Lucas
September 2007
For those who enjoy their Lucas on Life Everyday Bible reading notes this is a bonus.
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An Emergent Manifesto of Hope
September 2007
A book of essays on the so-called Emergent Church movement, worth reading and informative, particularly if the movement has so far escaped your notice.
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William Wilberforce – A hero for Humanity
September 2007
I really enjoyed this book. I think it would appeal to those who want to read a comprehensive account of Wilberforce’s life.
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Our eyes fixed on Jesus
September 2007
A fascinating book with an enigmatic blend of amazing stories about the power of God to heal...
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The Bite-Size Bible
September 2007
“Easy-to-digest chunks”: a commendable attempt to offer to fast-foodies what often, in bulk, seems unpalatable.
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Billions of missing links
September 2007
It is difficult to judge who this book is intended to convince.
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The Dirty Little Secret : Uncovering the Truth behind porn
September 2007
This is the ghosted autobiography of a 29 year-old co-pastor of a new church in Southern California.
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The Bishop of Rwanda
August 2007
Subtitled Finding forgiveness amidst a pile of bones this is a gripping account of the genocide that took place in 1994.
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The 10 things you need to know about Islam
August 2007
I found this book both informative and easy to read. It has the benefit too of brevity while the 230 footnotes show that Rhodes has done his research.
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Married but not Engaged
August 2007
This book focuses on the problems that can be caused in Christian marriages by men who are passive in their behaviour - who fail to conform to society’s view of masculinity...
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Their hearts burned:an excursion through the Old Testament
August 2007
The premise of this book - that all of the Old Testament points to Jesus, and that by implication, Hebrew Scriptures have meaning only in relation to Christian revelation - will be seen by some as deeply flawed.
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The Lord of the Sabbath
August 2007
This book drills you in the benefi ts of the fourth commandment, but it left me unclear as to the take home message and any purposeful use from this text.
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MySpace for Moms and Dads
August 2007
I really wanted not to like this book: another American telling us how to raise our kids, that sort of thing. In fact, I was quickly hooked by the book and fascinated by MySpace!
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Resurrecting Jesus
August 2007
Contrary to what may be expected from the title, this is not a book about Christ’s resurrection, but a powerful investigation of the incarnation, life, death, resurrection and teaching of Christ...
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What every volunteer youth worker should know
August 2007
This is a great book for anyone involved in working with young people, particularly those who are extra-timers.
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Anger: how do you handle it?
August 2007
In 1997 Paul and Liz Griffi n ran their fi rst anger course at Ellel Grange.
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Christianity - a guide for the perplexed
August 2007
The cover of this book is uninteresting. Inside there is a lack of spacing between paragraphs and the typeface is small; both things that I found off putting.
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Woman to Woman
August 2007
Joyce Meyer’s heart and mission are to help others. As she herself admits, she is a ‘very bold, straightforward, tell-it-like-it-is woman’
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Fabricating Jesus: How modern scholars distort the Gospel
August 2007
Today, sadly, there is a vast amount of fi ctitious literature, and pseudo-scholarship, which claims to reveal the “truth” about Jesus and the foundation of the Christian church...
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House of God
August 2007
The Christian understanding of space, place, and physical environment is easily a matter consigned to the theological ruminations of a few experts – not stuff the rest of us need think about.
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Brokenness and Blessing: Towards a Biblical Spirituality
August 2007
Frances Young gives a personal testimony of her journey with God and her eldest son who has multiple disabilities. Great scholarship, particularly of the Early Church Fathers, breathes from every page.
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Exiles
August 2007
The author is one of Australia’s advocates of the Emergent Church Movement - hence the subtitle, ‘Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture’.
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Messy Church
August 2007
Fresh Expressions of church are designed for those on the outside or edge of the Christian community.
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Faith has its reasons - 2nd edition
August 2007
This thorough examination of four differing views of Christian apologetics and an integrative approach is grounded firmly in the Bible.
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Serve God Save the Planet
August 2007
I was severely challenged by the introduction as it reminded me that loving my neighbour as myself is incompatible with living in luxury while many suffer and die for want of basic necessities.
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Search for a father
August 2007
A testimony to the power of God and the change which God's love and grace can bring into being, Amanda Lord has written a heartfelt account...
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The Book of Worship
July 2007
This delightful collection of prayers, songs (including melody lines) and meditations offers a rich treasury of Christian worship resources spanning the many centuries of the Christian Church.
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Contemporary Reflections for praying and preaching
July 2007
As it says on the cover, refl ections are a bit risky: they are by their very nature subjective.
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Awesome on the Inside
July 2007
Tim Hawkins has a great approach to tackling self-esteem issues and the desire to fi t in with Awesome on the Inside.
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Prophetic engagement - the Issachar Mandate
July 2007
This, it turns out, isn’t a sequel to The Da Vinci Code but describes the prophetic gifts of the sons of Issachar (1 Chronicles 12:32).
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The rise of Lakewood Church and Joel Osteen
July 2007
In this book Young tells how Joel Osteen, despite a lack of qualifi cations, took the reins of one of America’s largest, churches (Lakewood in Houston, Texas) when his father John suddenly died.
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The true cost of low prices - the violence of globalization
July 2007
This is an important and radical book which arouses anger and sadness and is heart-breaking to read.
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Making Ripples
July 2007
An attractive pocket-sized hardback for young seekers; one to give away, after you’ve devoured it in half an hour.
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David: Vol 2
July 2007
Michael Bentley has taken sixteen events in the life of King David, commented on them, shown how they can be linked with the words and actions of Jesus Christ, and how they relate to our lives today.
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The Good Artist
July 2007
This book takes an unusual approach to evangelism telling the story of the Artist who painted a perfect picture...
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Back from the Brink
July 2007
The Wraights are a mother and daughter team who in this book tell the stories of ten churches which were facing closure but...
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The Dawkins Letters
July 2007
No preacher or church leader should be without this
remarkable book.
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Searching 4 faith
July 2007
Draper constructs, with the company of many cultural helps, an engaging ‘path of faith’ in an accessible and biblical fashion.
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One touch from the King
July 2007
This book stems from a visit Mark Stibbe made to a church in Pittsburgh, USA in the autumn of 2005.
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Five attributes of a Church in revival
July 2007
Most will enjoy this easy-to-read pot-pourri of the author’s experience of 5 areas of church life - worship, word, wonders, wealth, and well-being (his term for ‘shalom’?)
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Crayons in the Dryer
July 2007
A collection of memories from Cheryl’s time bringing up triplets. Each small chapter opens with a quote and concludes with a Scripture quote and prayer.
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John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace
July 2007
Before reading this book, I could have told you all I knew about John Newton in about 30 seconds. His slave trading, his conversion at sea and his hymn “Amazing Grace” among several others.
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IVP Introduction to the Bible
July 2007
This book contains information, right from the beginning, that clearly states why the Bible is unlike any other recorded writings...
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Spoken from the heart (vol 2)
July 2007
Best known as the author for 40 years of the daily devotions, Every Day With Jesus, Selwyn Hughes tells in this book...
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The art of standing still
July 2007
This is Culliford’s fi rst foray away from the ‘chick-lit’ scene and proves that she is a writer of substance.
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Encountering the Spirit - the Charismatic Tradition
July 2007
Mark Cartledge is known for his academic writing on
Pentecostal and Charismatic theology...
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Job and the disruption of identity
June 2007
Job and the Disruption of Identity /
Susannah Ticciati /
Continuum / 978 0567041135 / hardback / 204pp / £45.00
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A search for what makes sense: finding faith
June 2007
A search for what makes sense: Finding Faith /
Brian D. McLaren /
Zondervan / 978 0 310 27266 3 / paperback / 187pp / £7.99
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How to run children's clubs and meetings
June 2007
How to run Children’s Clubs and Meetings / Steve Walker /
Day One / 978 184625 060 6 / paperback / 141 / £7.00
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The root of all evil
June 2007
The root of all Evil /
Brandt Dodson
/
Harvest House / 9780736918114 / paperback / 285pp / £6.99
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God's priorities for your life - for men
June 2007
God’s Priorities for Your life – For Men /
Hendrickson / 978 1 59856 133 3 / paperback / 318pp / £8.99
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Dead or alive
June 2007
Dead or alive Daniel Clark
IVP / 9781844741564 / paperback / 204pp / £6.99
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Freed from Satan's Grasp
June 2007
Freed from satan’s Grasp /
Vince McCann /
Kingsway / 978 1 842912 87 4 / paperback / 168pp / £6.99
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Serving the Parish - how to be an effective PCC member
June 2007
Serving the Parish - How to be an Effective PCC Member /
Dudley & Rounding /
SPCK / 9780281057184 / paperback / 133pp / £10.99
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Worship and Mission
June 2007
Worship and Mission / Dave Bilbrough /
New Wine Press / 978 1 903725 76 4 / paperback / 64pp / £3.99
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Praying - finding our way from duty to delight
June 2007
Praying - Finding our way from
/ Duty to Delight Packer & Nystrom /
IVP / 978 1 84474 142 7 / paperback / 289pp / £9.99
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Inside the Organic Church
June 2007
Inside the organic Church / Bob Whitesel /
Abingdon Press / 978 0687331161 / paperback / 154pp / £9.99
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How to be a Christian in a brave new world
June 2007
How to be a Christian in a Brave New world /
Joni Eareckson Tada & Nigel M. de S. Cameron /
Zondervan / 9780310259398 / paperback / 222 pp / £9.99
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Cultivating a Thoughtful Faith
June 2007
Cultivating a Thoughtful Faith / Dunnam & Moore (Eds) /
Abingdon:Alban / 9780687333035 / paperback / 108pp / £7.99
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A search for what is real
June 2007
A search for what is real / Brian D McLaren /
Zondervan / 9780310272670 / paperback / 192pp / £7.99
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Battles Christians Face
June 2007
Battles Christians Face / Vaughan Roberts /
Authentic / 978 1 85078 728 0 / paperback / 155pp / £6.99
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Saved by God
June 2007
Saved by God - Dave Bull /
5 stars
/ Crossbridge Books / 978 0 9549708 4 0 / paperback / 108pp / £5.00
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Letters to a young Evangelical
June 2007
Letters to a Young Evangelical Tony Campolo /
Basic Books / 978 0 465 00831 5 / hardback / 224pp / £13.99
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Yun - the illustrated story of The Heavenly Man
June 2007
Yun - The Illustrated story of the Heavenly Man /
Paul Hattaway & Rico Rival /
3 stars
Monarch / 9781854247445 / paperback / 126pp / £6.99
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What you always wanted to know about prayer
June 2007
What You always wanted to Know about Prayer Ian Coffey /
CWR / 9781853454518 / paperback / 103pp / £7.99
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Middle East Meltdown
June 2007
Middle East Meltdown John Ankerberg & Dillon Burroughs /
Harvest House / 978 0 7369 1119 0 / Paperback / 206pp / £7.99
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Grace for Muslims?
May 2007
Grace for Muslims? The journey from fear to faith / Steve Bell / Authentic Media / 9781850786641 / paperback / 190pp / £8.99
Review by David Watson 5 stars
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Spoken Worship
May 2007
Spoken Worship / Gerard Kelly / Zondervan / 978-0-310-27550-3 / paperback / 128pp / £5.99
Review by Steven Gibson 5 stars
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Joyful Exiles
May 2007
Joyful Exiles – life in Christ on the dangerous edge of things / James Houston / SPCK / 978 0 281058 77 / paperback / 204pp / £12.99
Review by David Williams 4 stars
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The Apostolic Fathers
May 2007
The Apostolic Fathers – an essential guide Clayton Jefford / Abingdon-Alban / 978 0687 342044 / paperback / 133 pp / £8.99
Review by John Leach 4 stars
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Heroes and Villains
May 2007
Heroes and Villains / Mike Alsford / DLT / 978 0 2325 2573 1 / paperback / 176 pp / £10.95
Review by Vicky Ross 3 stars
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The Bible Experience: New Testament
May 2007
The Bible Experience: New Testament / Angela Bassett /
Hodder / 9781844560080 / Audiobook on CD / £34.99
Review by Doug Ross 5 stars
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The Dawkins Letters
May 2007
The Dawkins Letters / David Robertson / Christian Focus Publications / 9781845502614 / paperback / 125pp / £4.99
Review by Clem Jackson 4 stars
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Adventures in Darkness
May 2007
Adventures in Darkness / Tom Sullivan / Thomas Nelson / 978 0 7852 2081 7 / hardback / 208pp / £15.99
Review by Martin Harrison
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The Gospel According to Judas
May 2007
The Gospel According to Judas / Benjamin Iscariot Macmillan / 9780230529014 / hardback / 96pp / £9.99
Review by Andrew Wright 2 stars
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Jesus, save me from your followers
May 2007
Jesus, save me from your followers / Dave Gilpin / New Wine Press / 978 19037 25726 / paperback / 186pp / £8.99
Review by John Leach 2 stars
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Off the Map
May 2007
Off the Map / Sandy Rosen / Destiny Image Europe / 978 88 89127 34 6 / paperback / 185pp / £8.99
Review by Vicky Ross 5 stars
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Rose Book of Bible Charts, Maps, Time lines
May 2007
Rose Book of Bible Charts, Maps, Time lines / Rose Publishing / 978 159636 022 8 / 192pp /hardback (spiral bound) / £23.99
Review by Jessica Spickernell 5 Stars
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The father you’ve been waiting for
May 2007
The father you’ve been waiting for / Mark Stibbe / Authentic / 978 1 86024 593 0 / paperback / 183pp / £6.99
Review by Lorraine Udell 4 stars
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Visions and Voyages - The story of Celtic spirituality
May 2007
Visions and Voyages - The story of Celtic spirituality / Fay Sampson / Lion / 978 0 7459 5235 2 / paperback / 168pp / £8.99
Review by Charlotte Hails 4 stars
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Doubt in Perspective
May 2007
Doubt in Perspective / Alister McGrath / IVP / 978 1 84474 137 3 /paperback / 142 pp / £6.99
Review by John Leach 2 stars
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Rediscovering the original Gospel of Thomas
April 2007
Rediscovering the original Gospel of Thomas / April D DeConick / Continuum / 0567043320 / paperback / 249pp / £25.00
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God at the Crossroads
April 2007
God at the Crossroads / Jeff Patten / Abingdon-Alban / 0 6874 9452 4 / paperback / 121pp / £9.99
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Deluded by Dawkins
April 2007
Deluded by Dawkins? / Andrew Wilson / Kingsway / 978 1 842913 55 0 / paperback / 112pp / £5.99
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Grace People
April 2007
Grace People / Michael Baughen
/ Authentic / 9781850786955 / paperback / 150pp / £6.99
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The Gay Gospel: How pro-gay advocates misread the Bible
April 2007
The Gay Gospel? How Pro-Gay advocates Misread the Bible Joe Dallas
/ Harvest House / 978 0 7369 1834 3 / paperback / 252pp / $13.99
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A heart to drum
April 2007
A Heart to Drum / Terl Bryant /
Survivor Books / 978 1842 913352 / paperback / 160pp / £7.99
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Slavery - Now and then
April 2007
Slavery – now and then / Danny Smith /
Kingsway / 978 1 84291 331 4 / paperback / 238pp / £7.99
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Let there be light: praying with Genesis
April 2007
Let there Be light: Praying with Genesis / Angela Tilby /
DLT / 0 232 52673 / paperback / 131pp / £10.95
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Whose Bible is it?
April 2007
Whose Bible is it? / Jaroslav Pelikan /
Penguin / 0 141 02268 X / paperback / 251pp / £8.99
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The Intimate Merton
April 2007
The Intimate Merton / Hart & Montaldo (Eds) /
Lion / 9780745952345 / paperback / 448pp / £11.99
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The Canons
April 2007
The Canons / Trevor Beeson /
SCM Press / 0 3340 4041 8 / hardback / 239pp / £19.99
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The truth comes out
April 2007
The truth Comes out / Nancy Heche /
Regal Books / 978 0 8307 3912 7 / hardback / 197pp / £14.99
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Uncovering the world
April 2007
Uncovering the world / Jonathan Carswell /
Authentic / 978 1 85078 667 2 / paperback / 122 pp / £5.99
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The Desert is alive
April 2007
The Desert is Alive / Lundy, Corwin & Martin / Authentic / 1 85078 697 6 / paperback / 164pp / £9.95
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Where is God in a messed up world?
April 2007
Where is God in a messed up world? / Roger Carswell
/ IVP / 978 1 84474 123 6 / paperback / 144pp / £5.99
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Mission-shaped Parish
April 2007
Mission-shaped Parish / Paul Bayes / Church House Publishing / 978 0715 140833 / paperback / 148pp / £7.99
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Not everything in our Bibles is inspired
April 2007
Not Everything in our Bibles is inspired / Neil Rees / Kingsway / 978 1 84 29129 35 / paperback / 205pp / £7.99
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Shining like Stars
April 2007
Shining like Stars / Lindsay Brown / IVP / 978 1 84474 167 0 / paperback / 224pp / £7.99
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KJV Complete Bible: Voice only on CD
April 2007
KJV Complete Bible: voice only on CD / Henrickson-Alban / 978 1 56563 972 0 / Audio / 59 CDs / £42.99
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Spirituality of Leadership
April 2007
Spirituality of Leadership / Donal Dorr / Columba Press / 1 85607 527 3 / paperback / 276pp / £8.99
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Christian Marketplace Needs You!
March 2007
Christian Marketplace Needs You!
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Abolition! The struggle to abolish slavery in the British Colonies
March 2007
Abolition! The struggle to abolish slavery in the British Colonies / Richard S Reddie / Lion / 978 0 7459 5229 1 / paperback / 256pp / £9.99
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Barth for Armchair Theologians
March 2007
Barth for Armchair Theologians / John Franke / Westminster John Knox / 978 0 664 22734 0 / paperback / 183pp / £9.99
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Reclaiming Science from Darwinism
March 2007
Reclaiming Science from Darwinism / Kenneth Poppe / Harvest House / 978 0 7369 1833 6 / paperback / 300 pages / £9.99
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Faith in the Furnace
March 2007
Faith in the Furnace / Ian Rees / Day One / 978 1 8462 5 044 6 / paperback / 256 pp / £8.00
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Savage Shepherds
March 2007
Savage Shepherds / Adam Harbinson / Authentic / 978 1 86024 574 9 / paperback / 120pp / £7.99
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Overcoming Barriers to Growth
March 2007
Overcoming Barriers to Growth / Michael Fletcher / Bethany House / 978 0 7642 0294 0 / hardback / 140pp / £11.99
» more
Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman
March 2007
Faith And Doubt Of John Betjeman / Kevin J Gardner (Ed.) / Continuum / 0 8264 8272 4 / paperback / 200pp / £9.99
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Tragedy to Triumph
March 2007
Tragedy to Triumph / Richard Daly / Autumn House / 1 903921 30 9 / paperback / 144pp / £5.99
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The gospel according to the Beatles
March 2007
The Gospel according to the Beatles / Steve Turner / Westminster John Knox / 0 6642 2983 2 / hardback / 256pp / £14.99
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Israel, God, and America
March 2007
Israel, God, and America / David Stein / Destiny Image Europe / 88 89127 27 9 / paperback / 209 pp / £9.99
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Skydiving for Parents - raising amazing kids without going into freefall
March 2007
Skydiving for Parents – Raising amazing kids without going into free fall / Jane Bullivant / Monarch Books / 978 1 85424 727 8 / paperback / 143 pp / £6.99
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Celtic Treasure: daily scriptures and prayers
March 2007
Celtic Treasure – Daily Scriptures and Prayers J Philip Newell /
Canterbury Press / 978 185 31160 18 / hardback / 244pp / £12.99
» more
Risking romance again - dating after divorce
March 2007
Risking Romance Again - Dating after Divorce / David J Robertson / friendsfi rst / 0 9552164 1 9 / paperback / 79 pp / £7.99
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Finding your future: the second time round
March 2007
Finding your future: the second time around / Peter Shaw / DLT / 978 0 232 52677 6 / paperback / 156pp / £9.95
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The St Gargoyle's Code
March 2007
The St Gargoyle’s Code / Ron Wood / Canterbury Press / 1 8531 1760 9 / paperback / 122pp / £6.99 / 5 stars
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Why men hate going to church
February 2007
Why men hate going to church
David Murrow
Thomas Nelson / 0 7852 6038 2 / paperback / 248pp / £8.99
5 stars
Review by John Leach
» more
The Woman who Outran the Devil
February 2007
The Woman who outran the Devil
Shirley Baskett
Monarch / 1 85424 704 2 / paperback / 192pp / £6.99
3 stars
Review by Lorraine Udell
» more
For the love of Anthony
February 2007
For the love of Anthony
Marie Fatayi-Williams
Hodder & Stoughton / 978 0 340 91018 4 / hardback / 212pp / £12.99
4 stars
Review by Helen Hancox
» more
Dalit Freedom - Now and Forever
February 2007
Dalit Freedom – Now and Forever
Joseph D’souza
OM Books India / 0 9764290 0 4 / paperback / 260pp
4 stars
Review by Eddie Olliffe
» more
Breaking the chains of Abuse
February 2007
Breaking the chains of Abuse
Sue Atkinson
Lion Hudson / 978 0 7459 5135 5 / paperback / 223 pages / £7.99
5 stars
Review by Jill Grainger
» more
Finding your way through Divorce
February 2007
Finding your Way through Divorce
Kathy Brewer Gorham
Ave Maria Press / 978 1 59471 074 2 / paperback / 120pp / $10.95
4 stars
Review by Phil Grainger
» more
How to set your Heart on Fire - not just on Sunday
February 2007
How to set your heart on fire – not just on sunday
Jeremy McQuoid
Authentic / 1 85978 666 6 / paperback / 145pp / £7.99
4 stars
Review by Sharon Deeming
» more
Eat this Book
February 2007
Eat this Book
Eugene H Peterson
Hodder & Stoughton / 0 340 86391 9 / paperback / 208pp / £9.99
5 stars
Review by Helen Hancox
» more
The Dave Walker Guide to the Church
February 2007
The Dave Walker Guide to the Church
Dave Walker
Canterbury Press / 1 8531 1779 X / paperback / 88pp / £5.99
5 stars
Review by John Leach
» more
Hope for the World
February 2007
Hope for the World
Roland Chia
IVP / 978 1 84474 1212 / paperback / 160pp / £5.99
4 stars
Review by Martin Harrison
» more
Surprised by Jesus
February 2007
Surprised by Jesus
Tim stafford
IVP / 978 1 84474 141 0 / paperback / 238pp / £8.99
4 stars
Review by Mavis Relph
» more
Mission-shaped Spirituality
February 2007
Mission-shaped Spirituality
Sue Hope
Church House / 0 7151 4080 9 / paperback / 125pp / £7.99
4 stars
Review by John Leach
» more
Love your Muslim Neighbour: Understanding Islam in today's world
February 2007
Love your Muslim Neighbour: Understanding Islam in today’s world
Edward Challe
Day One / 0 946462 15 1 / paperback / 271pp / £10
3 stars
Review by David Watson
» more
The Case Against Christ
February 2007
The Case Against Christ
John Young
Hodder & Stoughton / 0 340 90882 3 / paperback / 223pp / £7.99
4 stars
Review by Helen Hancox
» more
Just Walk Across the Room
February 2007
Just Walk Across the Room
Bill Hybels
Zondervan / 0 310 27218 1 / paperback / 224 pages / £8.99
- 4 stars
- Review by David Williams (re:fresh books)
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Taking the Long View: Three and a half decades of General Synod
January 2007
Taking the long view: Three and a half decades of General Synod - Colin Buchanan
Church House Publishing / 0 7151 4098 1 / hardback / 324pages / £22.50
****
Reviewed by John Leach
» more
Is Religion Dangerous?
January 2007
Is religion dangerous? Keith Ward
Lion / 0 7459 5262 3 / paperback / 200pages / £8.99
*****
Reviewed by Helen Hancox
» more
Expecting God to Speak to You
January 2007
Expecting God to Speak to You - Tracy Williamson
New Wine / 1 903725 41 0 / paperback / 90 pp / £5.99
***
Reviewed by Lorraine Udell
» more
To Act According to the Gospel
January 2007
To Act According to the Gospel - Xavier Leon-Dufour
Hendrickson / 1 56563201 X / paperback / 178pp / £9.99
****
Review by Alastair McCollum
» more
Finding your Way through Domestic Abuse
January 2007
Finding your way through domestic Abuse - Connie Fourré
Ave Maria Press-Alban Books / 1594710767 / paperback / 187pages / £7.99 - $12.95
*****
Review by Jill Grainger
» more
Mission-shaped Children
January 2007
Mission-shaped Children - Margaret Withers
Church House / 0 7151 4081 7 / paperback / 121 pp / £7.99
****
Review by Ann Eyre
» more
Can we rock the Gospel?
January 2007
Can we rock the Gospel? - Blanchard & Lucarini
Evangelical Press / 978 0 85234 628 0 / paperback / 249 pp / £7.95
****
Review by John Devine
» more
Let the children come to Communion
January 2007
Let the children come to Communion - Stephen Lake
SPCK / 0 281 05795 8 / paperback / 150pp / £10.99
***
Review by John Leach
» more
Table Talk - Bible Discovery for Families
January 2007
Table Talk: Bible discovery for Families - Various
Good Book Company / 1 873166 94 X / Booklet / 44pp / £3.00
**
Review by Lorraine Udell
» more
You matter more than you think
January 2007
You matter more than you think - Leslie Parrott
Zondervan / 978 0 310 27288 5 / paperback / 236pp / £7.99 $12.99
* one star
Review by Vicky Ross
» more
Holy Joe
January 2007
Holy Joe - Robert Graham
Troubador / 1 904744 82 6 / paperback / 205 pp / £8.99
*****
Review by Clem Jackson
» more
Show me the way
January 2007
Show me the way - Wendy Craig
Hodder & Stoughton / 0 340 86394 3 / hardback / 160pp / £9.99
***
Review by Mavis Relph
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The Read of my Life
January 2007
The read of My life - Various
CWR / 1 85345 386 2 / paperback / 174 pages / £8.99
***
Review by Phil Whittall
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The Mosque and its role in society
January 2007
The Mosque and its role in society - Belteshazzar & Abednego
Pilcrow Press / 1 90595 000 4 / paperback / 40 pages / £2.00
**
Review by David Watson
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From Vision to Action
January 2007
From vision to action - Tricia Neill
Alpha International / 978 190407 487 8 / paperback / 86pp / £5.99
**
Review by John Leach
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5 things I wish they'd told me when I became a Christian
December 2006
5 Things I Wish They’d Told Me When I Became A Christian
- Rob Frost
Authentic / 1 85078 670 4 / paperback / 182 pages / £7.99
****
Review by Helen Hancox
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A Heart of Compassion
December 2006
A Heart of Compassion - Philip Clarke
Authentic Media / 1 85078 663 1 / paperback / 179 pages / £7.99
*****
Review by Ivor Wood
» more
Churchgoing Today
December 2006
Churchgoing Today - Lynda Barley
Church House Publishing / 0 71514 103 1 / Paperback / 57 pages / £6.99
* one star
Review by Phil Whittall
» more
The truth is out there
December 2006
The truth is out there - Steve Maltz
Authentic Media / 1 86024 573 0 / Paperback / 128 pages / £6.99
***
Review by Clem Jackson
» more
Preaching and Worshipping in Advent, Christmas and Epiphany
December 2006
Preaching and Worshipping in Advent, Christmas and Epiphany
Ed. Cynthia Gadsden
Abingdon-Alban / 0 6873 5223 1 / paperback / 246 pages/ £9.99
***
Review by John Leach
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Meeting the Master in the Garden
December 2006
Meeting the Master in the Garden Thomas A Kempis, William Griffin H H H H H
Crossroad Publishing / 0 8245 2148 4 / paperback / 260 pages / £11.99 - $19.95
****
Review by Ivor Wood
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Pulling out of the nosedive
December 2006
Pulling out of the nosedive - Peter Brierley
Christian Research / 978 1 85321 168 3 / paperback / 261 pages / £8.99
***
Review by Clem Jackson
» more
Intercession: Your power to Possess nations
December 2006
Intercession: Your Power to Possess Nations - Michael Howard
Destiny Image Europe / 88-89127-15-5 / Paperback / 254pp / £9.99
**
Review by Eddie Olliffe
» more
Discovering the Old Testament
December 2006
Discovering The Old Testament Alec Motyer
Crossway Books / 978 1 85684 226 6 / paperback / 176 pages / £4.99
* one star
Review by Joe Story
» more
How Christianity Came to Britain and Ireland
December 2006
How Christianity Came to Britain and Ireland Michelle P Brown H H H H H
Lion / 978-0-7459-5153-9 / hardback / 208 pages / £16.99
*****
Review by Alastair McCollum
» more
God's Grace and the Homosexual Next Door
December 2006
God’s Grace and the Homosexual Next Door: Reaching the Heart of the Gay Men and Women in Your World
- Alan Chambers
Harvest House / 0 7369 1691 1 / paperback / 272 pages / £9.99
****
Review by David Watson
» more
The Passion and the Cross
December 2006
The Passion and the Cross: Why did Jesus have to die?
Martin Robinson
Monarch / 1854246690 / paperback / 160 pages / £6.99
****
Review by Tim Heard
» more
The Guy I'm Not Dating
December 2006
The Guy I’m Not Dating - Trish Perry
Harvest House / 978 0 7369 1872 5 / paperback / 325 pages / £8.99
***
Review by Lorraine Udell
» more
Encounters with God
December 2006
Encounters with God - Peter Hicks
Spring Harvest-Authentic / 1 85078 688 7 / paperback / 212 / £7.99
*****
Review by Sharon Deeming
» more
Carol Praise - Music Edition
December 2006
Carol Praise – Music Edition
Five stars
Collins / 0 00 722816 3 / hardback / 243 songs + CDRom / £20.00
Review by Clem Jackson
» more
Touchdown Alexander
November 2006
Touchdown Alexander / Shaun Alexander / Harvest House / 0 7369 1937 6 / hardback / 224 pages / £12.99 - $22.99
Review by Steve Blundell ****
» more
The House Built On Sand
November 2006
The House Built On Sand / Tony Pearce / New Wine / 1 903725 70 4 / paperback / 96 pages / £5.99
Review by David Brassington ****
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Winter Soulstice
November 2006
Winter Soulstice / John Killinger / Crossroad Publishing / 0 82452316 4 / paperback / 224 pages / £11.99
Review by Martin Harrison **
» more
Across the China Sky
November 2006
Across the China Sky / C. Hope Flinchbaugh / Bethany House / 978 0 7642 0239 1 / paperback / 248 pages / £8.99
Review by Lorraine Udell *****
» more
The Essential Bible Companion
November 2006
The Essential Bible Companion / Walton, Strauss & Cooper / Zondervan / 0 310 26662 9 / paperback / 150 pages / £8.99 - $14.99
Review by David Williams **
» more
Expository Preaching: Principles and Practice
November 2006
Expository Preaching: Principles and Practice / Haddon W. Robinson / IVP / 0 85111 557 8 / paperback / 256 pages / £12.99
Review by Greg Haslam *****
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Just Walk Across the Room
November 2006
Just Walk Across the Room / Bill Hybels / Zondervan/ 0 31027 218 1/ Paperback/ 221 pages/ £8.99
Review by Phil Whittall ***
» more
Intercession: Your Power to Possess Nations
November 2006
Intercession: Your Power to Possess Nations / Michael Howard / Destiny Image Europe / 88-89127-15-5 / Paperback / 254pp / £9.99
Review by Eddie Olliffe **
» more
My Journey So Far…
November 2006
My Journey So Far… Lessons on Life from Fellow Travellers / Various / Authentic / 978 1 85078 669 6 / paperback / 146 pages / £7.99
Review by Helen Hancox ****
» more
God and Healing of the Mind
November 2006
God and Healing of the Mind / Trevor Dearing / Crossbridge Books / 0 9549708 2 9 / paperback / 137 pages / £6.00
Review by Joe Story ****
» more
How long, O Lord?
November 2006
How long, O Lord? Reflections on suffering and Evil / D.A.Carson / IVP / 978 1 84474 132 8 / paperback / 240 pages / £12.99
Review by Joe Story ***
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Our Second Birth
November 2006
Our Second Birth / Henri J Nouwen / Crossroad Publishing / 0 8245 2365 2 / paperback / 224 / £8.99
Review by Sharon Deeming, The Vine, Hinckley ****
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Robber of the Cruel Streets
November 2006
Robber of the Cruel Streets: the prayerful life of George Muller / Clive Langmead / CWR / 1 85345 395 1 / paperback / 176 pages / £9.99
Review by Vicky Ross ****
» more
Saving Sex
November 2006
Saving Sex / Trevor Stammers and Tim Doak / Damaris / 1 904753 14 0 / paperback / 120 pages / £6.99
Review by Susie Blundell ****
» more
Sanctuary: Unexpected places where God found me
November 2006
Sanctuary: Unexpected places where God found me / Becca Stevens / Abingdon-Alban / 0 687 49420 6 / paperback / 125 pages / £6.99
Review by Tim Heard ****
» more
Finding Sanctuary
October 2006
Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life / Abbot Christopher Jamison / Weidenfeld and Nicholson / 0 297 85132 2 / Hardback / 182Pages / £10.00
Review by Eddie Olliffe ****
» more
Faith & Freedom – The Christian Challenge for the World
October 2006
Faith & Freedom – The Christian Challenge for the World / Jimmy Carter / Duckworth / 0 7156 3610 3 / hardback / 212 pages / £12.99
Review by David Williams ****
» more
Bad Hair Days, Rainy Days & Mondays
October 2006
Bad Hair Days, Rainy Days & Mondays : Wisdom & Encouragement to Lift a Woman’s Spirit / Cynthia Bond Hopson / Abingdon-Alban / 0 6784 9618 7 / paperback / 88 pages / £5.99
Review by Helen Hancox ****
» more
A guy who was gay
October 2006
A guy who was gay: The story of Richard Oostrum / Richard Oostrum with Hans Frinsel / Kingsway Pubns. / 1 84291 264 X / paperback / 176 pages / £6.99
Review by David Watson ****
» more
A Funny Way of Being Serious
October 2006
A Funny Way of Being Serious / James A Simpson / Savage Publishers / 1 90424617 6 / paperback / 127 pages / £5.99
Review by Martin Harrison ***
» more
Preaching The Whole Bible as Christian Scripture
October 2006
Preaching The Whole Bible as Christian Scripture / Graham Goldsworthy / IVP / 0-85111-539-X / paperback / 272 pages / £11.99
Review by Greg Haslam ****
» more
The Glory Returns to the Workplace
October 2006
The Glory Returns to the Workplace / Richard Fleming / Destiny Image Europe / 888912704X / paperback / 208 pages / £8.99 - $14.99
Review by Vicky Ross ****
» more
The Birth of Christ
October 2006
The Birth of Christ / Peter Sammons / Glory to God Publications / 0 9551790 1 7 / paperback / 288 pages / £6.99
Review by Eddie Olliffe ***
» more
I Will Live in Your House
October 2006
I Will Live in Your House / Susie Poole / Pupfish / 1 904637 14 0 / hardback / 32 pages + CD / £9.99
Review by lorainne Udell ****
» more
The Boundaries Book
October 2006
The Boundaries Book / Patrick A Means / The Crossroad Publishing Company / 0 8245 2318 0/ paperback / 160 pages / £9.99 - $16.95
Review by Ivor Wood **
» more
Girl meets God
October 2006
Girl meets God / Lauren Winner / Authentic / 1 85078 653 4 / paperback / 303 pages / £7.99
Review by Sharon Deeming *
» more
Youth Emmaus 2: Big Issues and Holy Spaces
January 2006
Youth Emmaus 2: Big Issues and Holy Spaces / Gosling, Mayfield, Sledge & Washington / Church House Publishing / 9 7807 151 40482 / paperback / 121 pages / £22.50
Review by Chris Leach ****
» more
Better than Halloween
October 2006
Better than Halloween / Nick Harding / Church House Publishing / 0715141015 / A4 paperback / 52 pages + CDRom / £9.99
Review by Jon Howie ****
» more
Wonder and Wisdom
October 2006
Wonder and Wisdom / Celia Deane-Drummond / DLT / 0232 52591 9 / paperback / 191 pages / £12.95
Review by Michael Wilson ***
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God, Sex, The Universe And All That
October 2006
God, Sex, The Universe And All That / Roy McCloughry / Lion Hudson / 978 0 7459 5182 9 / paperback / 144 pages / £6.99
Review by Helen Hancox *****
» more
Preach the Word!
September 2006
Preach the Word! / Greg Haslam (ed) / Sovereign World / 1 85240 443 4 / hardback / 623 pages / £24.99
Review by John Leach *****
» more
Even Now
September 2006
Even Now / Karen Kingsbury / Zondervan / 0 310 24753 5 / paperback / 368 pages / £8.99
Review by Lorraine Udell ****
» more
Dispossessed
September 2006
Dispossessed / Mark Kramer / Orbis Books / 1 57075 658 9 / paperback / 219 pages / £11.99
Review by Rebecca Taylor ****
» more
The Bad Catholic’s Guide to Good Living
September 2006
The Bad Catholic’s Guide to Good Living / John Zmirak & Denise Matychowiak / Crossroad Publishing / 0 8245 2300 8 / paperback / 216 pages / £8.99
Review by Helen Hancox ****
» more
The Heart Of The Temple
September 2006
The Heart Of The Temple / Anne Le Tissier / CWR / 1 85345 379 X / paperback / 173 pages / £8.99
Review by Helen Hancox ****
» more
The Da Vinci Code and the Secrets of the Temple
September 2006
The Da Vinci Code and the Secrets of the Temple / Robin Griffith-Jones / Canterbury Press / 1853117315 / paperback / 128 pages / £4.99
Review by Clem Jackson ****
» more
A Pocket Guide to Ethical Issues
September 2006
/ Andrew Goddard / Lion / 0-7459-5158-95 / paperback / 220 pages / £6.99
Review by John Thomas ****
» more
Modern Mothering
September 2006
Modern Mothering / Tian Dayton /Crossroad Publishing / 0 8245 2340 7 / paperback / 166 pages / £9.99
Review by Sharon Deeming **
» more
The Jesus Inquest
September 2006
The Jesus Inquest / Charles Foster / Monarch / 1 85424 752 2 / paperback / 298 pages / £8.99
Review by Phil Whittall ****
» more
There is a Season
September 2006
There is a Season / Chittister & Swanson /Orbis Books / 1 75075 6600 / paperback / 118 pages / £11.99
Review by Tim Heard ***
» more
The Gospel According to the World’s Greatest Superhero
August 2006
The Gospel According to the World’s Greatest Superhero / Steven Skelton / Harvest House / 07369 1812 4 / paperback / 160 pages / £7.99
Review by Clem Jackson ****
» more
Confessions from an honest wife
August 2006
Confessions from an honest wife / Sarah Zacharias Davis / Revell / 0 8007 3091 7 / paperback / 190 pages / £8.99
Review by Sharon Deeming *****
» more
Cross-examined: The life-changing power of the death of Jesus
August 2006
Cross-examined: The life-changing power of the death of Jesus / Mark Meynell / IVP / 978 1 8 447 4101 4 / paperback / 183 pages / £6.99
Review by Tim Heard ****
» more
Awareness
August 2006
Awareness / Anthony De Mello / Fount / 0 00627519 2 / paperback / 184 pages / £6.99
Review by Martin Harrison *
» more
Freedom to Lead
August 2006
Freedom to Lead / Colin Buckland / CWR / 1 85345 382 X / paperback / 205 pages / £8.99
Review by Joe Story ****
» more
No Experience Necessary – Everybody’s Welcome
August 2006
No Experience Necessary – Everybody’s Welcome / Kelly A Fryer / Augsburg Fortress / 0 8066 4808 2 / paperback / 112 pages / £5.99
Review by Helen Hancox ****
» more
Heavenly weddings that don’t cost the earth
August 2006
Heavenly weddings that don’t cost the earth / Susan Sayers / Kevin Mayhew | 1 84417 297 X | paperback | £9.99
Review by Susie Blundell **
» more
Planting Mission-Shaped Churches Today
August 2006
Planting Mission-Shaped Churches Today / Martin Robinson / Monarch / 1 85424 728 X / paperback / 192 pages / £8.99
Review by Phil Whittall ****
» more
Where is the God of Justice?
August 2006
Where is the God of Justice? / Warren McWilliams / Hendrickson Publishers / 1-56563-571-X / paperback / 259 pages / £9.99
Review by Ivor Wood *
» more
Into the Promised Land: Beyond the Lesbian Struggle
August 2006
Into the Promised Land: Beyond the Lesbian Struggle / Jeanette Howard / Monarch / 1 85424 676 3 / paperback / 192 pages / £7.99
Review by David Watson ****
» more
365 Meditations for Teachers by Teachers
August 2006
365 Meditations for Teachers by Teachers /Sharpe (Ed) / Abingdon-Alban / 0 687 49681 0 / paperback / 296 pages / £7.99
Review by Denise Elliott ****
» more
The Fall of Lucifer
August 2006
The Fall of Lucifer / Wendy Alec / Warboys / 0 9552377 0 X / paperback / 296 pages / £11.99
Review by Clem Jackson *****
» more
The Gnostic Discoveries
August 2006
The Gnostic Discoveries / Marvin Meyer / DLT / 0 232 52672 9 / paperback / 239 pages / £12.95
Review by Michael Wilson Rating **
» more
The Life We Claim
August 2006
The Life We Claim: The Apostles’ Creed for preaching, teaching and worship / James C Howell /Abingdon Press / 0 687 49353 6 / paperback / 173 Pages / £9.99
Review by Alastair McCollum Rating ****
» more
From Blushing Bride to Wedded Wife
July 2006
From Blushing Bride to Wedded Wife | Maria Taviano | Harvest House | 0-7369-1757-8 | paperback | 271 pages | £7.99
Review by Susie Blundell *****
» more
Face to Face: Gay and Lesbian Clergy on Holiness and Life Together
July 2006
Face to Face: Gay and Lesbian Clergy on Holiness and Life Together | Jeffrey Heskins | SCM Press | 0 334 04003 5 | paperback | 128 pages | £7.95
Review by David Watson ***
» more
Four Paws from Heaven
July 2006
Four Paws from Heaven | Wells, Young & Fleishauer | Harvest House | 0 7369 1640 7 | paperback | 253 pages | £7.99
Review by Ivor Wood **
» more
How Can I Forgive? A Study of Forgiveness
July 2006
How Can I Forgive? A Study of Forgiveness | Joretta L. Marshall | Abingdon Press-Alban | 0 687 05461 3 | paperback | 90 pages | £5.99
Review by Helen Hancox **
» more
Derek Prince: A Biography
July 2006
Derek Prince: A Biography | Stephen Mansfield | Authentic | 1 901144 29 1 | hardback | 286 pages | £12.99
Review by Martin Harrison ****
» more
The Windsor Report: A Liberal Response
July 2006
The Windsor Report: A Liberal Response | Clatworthy & Taylor (eds) | O Books | 1 905047 29 0 | paperback | 128 pages | £7.95
Review by David Watson ***
» more
The Dirty Little Secret
July 2006
The Dirty Little Secret | Craig Gross | Zondervan | 0 310 27107 X | Paperback | 176pages | £7.99
Review by Phil Whittall ***
» more
Nice Girls Don’t Change the World
July 2006
Nice Girls Don’t Change the World | Lynne Hybels | Zondervan | 0-310-27231-9 | hardback | 96 pages | £8.99
Review by Helen Hancox **
» more
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ
July 2006
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ | John Piper | IVP | 1 84474 087 0 | paperback | 126 pages | £5.99
Review by Joe Story ***
» more
The Busy Christian’s Guide to Busyness
July 2006
The Busy Christian’s Guide to Busyness | Tim Chester | IVP | 978 1 84474 124 3 | paperback | 160 pages | £7.99
Review by Richard J Morris *****
» more
The Discernment of Spirits: An Ignatian Guide for Everyday Living
July 2006
The Discernment of Spirits: An Ignatian Guide for Everyday Living | Timothy M. Gallagher | Crossroad Publishing | 0 8245 2291 5 | Paperback | 214 pages
Review by John A Thomas ***
» more
Time: God’s Gift in A Busy World
July 2006
Time: God’s Gift in A Busy World | Jill Fuller | SPCK | 0 281 05750 8 | paperback| 118 pages | £7.99
Review by Helen Hancox ***
» more
The Irresistible Revolution – Living as an ordinary radical
July 2006
The Irresistible Revolution – Living as an ordinary radical | Shane Claiborne | Zondervan | 0 310 26630 0 | paperback | 368 pages | £7.99
Review by Phil Whittall ****
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Do Christians know how to be spiritual?
July 2006
Do Christians know how to be spiritual? | John Drane | Darton, Longman & Todd / 0 232 52632 X /paperback / 186 pages / £12.95
Review by Tim Heard ***
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An Introduction to the New Testament
July 2006
An Introduction to the New Testament | Carson & Moo | Apollos IVP | 978 1 84474 089 5 | Hardback | 784 pages | £24.99
Review by David Gillard ****
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God’s Outrageous Claims
July 2006
God’s Outrageous Claims | Lee Strobel | Zondervan | 0 310 26775 7 | paperback | 272 pages | £7.99
Review by Sharon Deeming *****
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Contending for Our All
July 2006
Contending for Our All | John Piper |IVP | 978 184474 1359 | paperback | 178 pages | £8.99
Review by Richard J Morris ****
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The Sparrow Story: The Gospel for Today
July 2006
The Sparrow Story: The Gospel for Today | David Rhodes | Zondervan | 0 310 26775 7 | paperback | 272 pages | £7.99
Review by Tim Heard ****
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The Gnostic Discoveries
July 2006
The Gnostic Discoveries | Marvin Meyer | DLT | 0 232 52672 9 | paperback | 239 pages | £12.95
Review by Michael Wilson **
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Lesslie Newbigin: Missionary Theologian
June 2006
Lesslie Newbigin: Missionary Theologian - A Reader | Paul Weston | SPCK | 0281057931 | paperback | 278 pages | £14.99
Review by Joe Story ***
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The Journey: How To Live By Faith In An Uncertain World
June 2006
The Journey: How To Live By Faith In An Uncertain World | Billy Graham | Thomas Nelson | 0 8499 1832 4 | hardback | 304 pages | £14.99
Review by Helen Hancox *****
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With What Remains
June 2006
With What Remains: a Widow’s Quest for Truth in Rwanda | Lesley Bilinda | Hodder & Stoughton | 0-340-90873-4 | paperback | 208 pages | £7.99
Review by Clem Jackson *****
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Can You Handle The Truth
June 2006
Can You Handle The Truth | R T Kendall & Andrew Sampson | CWR | 1 85345 377 3 | paperback | 140 pages | £8.99
Review by Sharon Deeming *****
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Ordinary Joy
June 2006
Ordinary Joy | Joe Campeau | Augsburg Books:Alban | 0 8066 5145 8 | paperback | 166 pages | £7.99
Review by Ivor Wood ****
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Prayers for Lent, Easter and Pentecost
June 2006
Prayers for Lent, Easter and Pentecost | Donna E Shaper | Abingdon Press | 0-687-34306-2 | paperback | 75 pages | £6.99
Review by: Alastair McCollum ***
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Same Sex marriage: Real Issues - Right Answers
June 2006
Same Sex Marriage: Real issues - Right answers | Tom Gill |
Bridge-Logos | 0 88270 958 5 | paperback | 70 pages | $6.99
Review by David Watson *
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God's Never Offside
June 2006
God's Never Offside | Lorna Grady | 0 9543683 1 2 | paperback | 174 pages | £6.99 | Distributed by CLC
Review by Clem Jackson ***
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The Secret Message of Jesus
May 2006
The Secret Message of Jesus | Brian McLaren | Thomas Nelson | 0849991439 | paperback | 224 pages | £8.99
Review by Richard J Morris ****
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Sure, I Believe – So What
May 2006
Sure, I Believe – So What | James Montgomery Boice | Christian Focus | 1 85792 095 3 | paperback | 156 pages | £6.99
Review by Martin Harrison *****
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To Catch a Thief
May 2006
To Catch a Thief | Richard Taylor | New Wine | 1 903725 57 7 | paperback | 126 pages | £6.99
Review by Clem Jackson ***
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Dig Deeper: Tools to Unearth the Bible’s Treasure
May 2006
Dig Deeper: Tools to Unearth the Bible’s Treasure | Nigel Beynon & Andrew Sach | IVP | 1 84474 103 6 | paperback | 160 pages | £6.99
Review by Helen Hancox ****
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Day By Day With Jonathan Edwards
May 2006
Day By Day With Jonathan Edwards: Selected Readings for Daily Reflection | Ed. Randall J. Pederson | Hendrickson | 1-56563-388-1 | hardback | 394 pages
Review by John A Thomas ***
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Disclosures: Conversations Gay and Spiritual
May 2006
Disclosures: Conversations Gay and Spiritual | Michael Ford | Darton, Longman & Todd | 0 232 52561 7 | paperback | 144 pages | £8.95
Review by David Watson ****
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Equipping your Church in a Spiritual Age
May 2006
Equipping your Church in a Spiritual Age | Hollingsworth & Whitehead | Churches Together in Britain & Ireland | 08516 93148 | paperback | £9.99
Review by Richard J Morris *****
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Love Work, Live Life
May 2006
Love Work, Live Life: releasing God’s purpose in Work | David Oliver | Authentic | 1 86024 529 3 | paperback | 128 pages | £7.99
Review by Joe Story **
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Seven Spiritual Gifts of Waiting
May 2006
Seven Spiritual Gifts of Waiting | Holly W Whitcomb | Augsburg Books | 0 8066 5128 8 | paperback | 124 pages | £6.99
Review by Jackie Searle ****
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Missionary Journeys, Missionary Church
May 2006
Missionary Journeys, Missionary Church: Acts 13-20 Steven Croft |Church House Publishing | 0 7151 4972 5 | paperback | 112 pages | £7.95
Review by David Watson ***
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90 Minutes in Heaven
April 2006
90 Minutes in Heaven | Don Piper with Cecil Murphy | Kingsway | 1 84291 227 5 | paperback | 208 pages | £6.99
Review by Joe Story ***
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Am I A Good Girl Yet?
April 2006
Am I A Good Girl Yet? | Carolyn Bramhall | Monarch | 1 85424 724 7 | paperback | 256 pages | £7.99
Review by Helen Hancox *****
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Dinner with a Perfect Stranger
April 2006
Dinner with a Perfect Stranger David Gregory | Hodder & Stoughton | 0 340 90878 5 | paperback | 100 pages | £5.99
Review by Clem Jackson *****
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Approaching Easter
April 2006
Approaching Easter | Jane Williams | Lion | 0 7459 5199 6 | hardback | 128 pages | £9.99
Review by Janet Jackson ****
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Discovering the Holy Spirit in the New Testament
April 2006
Discovering the Holy Spirit in the New Testament | Keith Warrington | Hendrickson: Alban | 1 5656 3871 9 | paperback | 224 pages | £ 9.99
Review by Jackie Searle ***
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It's OK to Cry
April 2006
It’s OK to Cry: Finding hope when struggling with infertility and Miscarriage | Malcolm & Nick Cameron | Christian Focus | 1 84550 077 6 | paperback | 207 pages | £5.99
Review by Sharon Deeming *****
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Loaves, Fishes and Leftovers
April 2006
Loaves, Fishes and Leftovers | Ted Loder| Augsburg | 0 8066 5141 5 | paperback| 188pages | £7.99
Review by John Leach **
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The Family You Want
April 2006
The Family You Want: How to build an authentic loving home | John A Huffman | Christian Focus | 1 85792 933 0 | paperback | 219 pages | £7.99
Review by Martin Harrison ****
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Through the Fire
April 2006
Through the Fire: Spiritual Restoration for Adult Victims of ChildSexual Abuse | Rick Meyer | Augsburg | 0 8066 5132 6 | 144 pages | £6.99
Review by Jonathan Clark *****
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Were you there? - Finding ourselves at the foot of the cross
April 2006
Were you there? - Finding ourselves at the foot of the cross | Erik Kolbell | WJK Books | 0 664 22776 3 | hardback | 163 pages | £8.99
Review by Ivor Wood ****
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After the Locusts
March 2006
After the locusts / Meg Guillebaud / Monarch/ 1 8542 4717 4/ paperback/ 208 pages/ £7.99
Review by Tim Heard ****
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Aren’t they lovely when they’re asleep
March 2006
Aren’t they lovely when they’re asleep: lessons in unsentimental parenting / Ann Benton / Christian Focus / 1085792 876 8 / paperback / 125 pages / £3.99
Review by Sharon Deeming *****
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God’s Heretics: the Albigensian Crusade
March 2006
God’s Heretics: the Albigensian Crusade / Aubrey Burl / Sutton Publishing / 0-7509-4257-6 / paperback / 278 pages / £8.99
Review by Alastair McCollum ***
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Heirs of Abraham: The future of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Relations
March 2006
Heirs of Abraham: The future of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Relations / Hinze & Omar (eds) / Orbis Books / 1-57075-585-x / paperback / 160 pages / £11.99
Review by David Watson ***
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Unlocking the Door
March 2006
Unlocking the Door / Adams & Harne / Authentic / 1 85078 645 3 / Paperback / 141 pages / £5.99
Review by Phil Whittall ****
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In Good and Generous Faith
March 2006
In Good and Generous Faith: Christian responses to Religious Pluralism / Kenneth Cracknell / Evangelical Press / 0 7162 0596 3 / paperback / 300 pages / £17.99
Review by David Watson **
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Running the Marathon of Life
March 2006
Running the Marathon of Life / Nell W Mohney / Abingdon:Alban / 0-687-05494-X / paperback / 149 pages / £7.99
Review by Chris Leach *****
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Testament: the Bible Odyssey
March 2006
Testament: the Bible Odyssey / Ed. Phillip Law / Continuum Publishing / 0-8264-7734-8 / paperback / 659pages / £9.99
Review by Alastair McCollum ****
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There’s a snake in my cupboard
March 2006
There’s a snake in my cupboard / Nick Wooding / New Wine / 1903725542 / paperback / 160 pages / £ 5.99
Review by Clem Jackson ****
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To Henry in Heaven
March 2006
To Henry in Heaven: Reflections on the Loss of a Child / Herbert Brokering / Augsburg / 0 8066 5170 9 / Paperback / 96 pages / £5.99
Review by Jonathan Clark *
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Faith Matters For Young Adults
February 2006
Faith Matters For Young Adults: Discovering The Faith | Abingdon Press | 0 68705 475 3 | paperback | 112pages | £4.99
Review by Rachel Dodd Rating ****
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God Made Creepy Crawlies
February 2006
God Made Creepy Crawlies | Sally Anne Conan & Becky Radtke | Augsburg Books | 0 80664 986 0 | £5.99 | PB | 40 pages
Review by Suzie O'Brienwww.christianityfortots.com
Rating ***
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Midwife Crisis
February 2006
Midwife Crisis:The calamities of a trainee midwife | Hilary Cotterill | Monarch | 1 85424 729 8 | paperback | 288 pages | £6.99
Review by Helen Hancox Rating **
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New Town
February 2006
New Town: A fable unless you believe | Harry Blamires | Revell | 0 80075 997 4 | Paperback | 174 pages
Review by Phil Whittall Rating ***
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Quarks, Chaos and Christianity
February 2006
Quarks, Chaos and Christianity. Questions to Science and Religion | John Polkinghorne | SPCK | 0 281 05766 4
paperback | 100 pages | £7.99
Review by John A Thomas Rating ****
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Songs of Freedom
February 2006
Songs of Freedom | Eileen Mitson (Ed) | Monarch | 0 8254 6099 9 | Paperback | 204 pages | £7.99
review by Clem Jackson Rating ****
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Still Believing
February 2006
Still Believing | Erickson & Farrell (Eds) | Orbis | 1570755825 | paperback | 154 pages | £11.99
Review by Richard J Morris Rating **
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Wicca’s Charm
February 2006
Wicca’s Charm:Understanding the Spiritual Hunger Behind the Rise of Modern Witchcraft and Pagan Spirituality | Catherine Edwards Sanders | Shaw Books | 0-87788-198-7 | Paperback | 233 pages
Review by John A Thomas Rating ****
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Teach Your Children to Pray
February 2006
Teach Your Children to Pray | Denise George | Christian Focus | 1 85792 941 1 | paperback | 297 pages
Review by Sharon Deeming Rating ****
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The Way Into Narnia
February 2006
The Way Into Narnia:A Reader’s Guide | Peter J Schakel | WM.B.Eerdmans | 0 80282 984 8 | paperback | 212 pages | £8.99
Review by Rachel Dodd Rating *
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Running the Marathon of Life
March 2006
Running the Marathon of Life / Nell W Mohney / Abingdon:Alban/ 0-687-05494-X/ paperback/ 149 pages/ £7.99
Review by Chris Leach *****
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Donkey To The Rescue
December 2005
Donkey To The Rescue | Tim Dowley | Candle Books | 1 85985 551 2 | £2.99 | Boardbook | 14 pages
Review by Suzie O'Brien ***
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Designers of the Future: Who Should Make the Decisions?
December 2005
Designers of the Future: Who Should Make the Decisions? | D. Gareth Jones | Monarch | 1 85424 708 5
paperback | 256 pages | £8.99
Review by John A Thomas ****
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He shall be called: 150 names of Jesus and what they mean to you
December 2005
He shall be called: 150 names of Jesus and what they mean to you | Robert J Morgan | Warner Faith | 0 446 57652 2 |Hardback | 320 pages | £15.99
Review by Clem Jackson ****
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Foundations of Joy
December 2005
Foundations of Joy | Geoff Trimingham | Roperpenberthy | 1 9039 0524 9 | paperback | 80 pages | £4.99
Review by Sharon Deeming, manager The Vine Christian Bookshop **
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Lucas Out Loud
December 2005
Lucas out Loud | Jeff Lucas | Spring Harvest & Authentic | 1 85078 630 5 | Paperback | 113 pages
Review by Phil Whittall **
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Passion for the Movies
December 2005
Passion for the Movies | Stibbe & J John | Authentic | 1 86024 516 1 | Paperback | 318 pages
Review by Phil Whittall ****
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Pope Benedict XVI
December 2005
Pope Benedict XVI | John L Allen, Jr. | Continuum | 0-8264-1361-7 | paperback | 352 pages | £12.99
Review by Helen Hancox ****
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Roberto: Hamster on a mission
December 2005
Roberto: Hamster on a mission | Marti Leimbach | Polkadot Press | 0 9548 0410 4 | paperback | 176 pages | £4.99
Review by Vicki Leach (aged 10) ****
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The Bible in Pastoral Practice
December 2005
The Bible in Pastoral Practice | Ed. Paul Ballard and Stephen R Holmes | DLT | Paperback | 316 pages | £17.95
Review by Revd. Jackie Searle ****
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What in the world is God waiting for?
December 2005
What in the world is God waiting for? | Ross Paterson | Sovereign World | 1 85240 431 0 | Paperback | 192 pages | £8.99
Review by David Watson ***
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The Roots of Christian Festivals
August 2005
The Roots of Christian Festivals | David Self | SPCK | 0 28105 681 1 | £8.99 | paperback
Review by Jonathan Clark, Manager of Premier Lifeline, co-presenter of Lifeline Live on Premier Christian Radio ***
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Ignite
August 2005
Ignite | Nigel James | Authentic | 1 85078 604 6 | paperback | £6.99 | 136 pages ****
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Henry and the Crocodiles
August 2005
Henry and the Crocodiles | John Stewart | Kevin Mayhew | 1 84417 354 2 | £4.99 | paperback | 32 pages
Review by Suzie O’Brien - www.christianityfortots.com ***
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Christ’s Radiant Church
August 2005
Christ’s Radiant Church | John Hosier | Monarch | 1 85424 700 X | paperback | 223 | pages | £8.99
Review by Phil Whittall ***
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What has Infant Baptism done to Baptism?
August 2005
What has Infant Baptism done to Baptism? | David F Wright | Paternoster | 1 84227 357 4 | paperback | 117 pages | £8.99
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Rick Warren and the Purpose that Drives him
August 2005
Rick Warren and the Purpose that Drives him | Richard Abanes | Harvest House | 0 73691 738 1 | paperback | £4.95
Review by Clem Jackson ***
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God Gave Me
August 2005
God Gave Me | Wade Hudson & Cary Pillo | Abingdon Press | 0 68702 590 7 | £4.99 | paperback | 15 pages.
Review by Suzie O’Brien - www.christianityfortots.com ***
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The Gutter
August 2005
The Gutter | Craig Gross | Relevant Books | 0 97603 570 7 | paperback | 156 pages
Review by Phill Whittall ***
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Rules of Engagement
August 2005
Rules of Engagement | Katherine & Richard Hill | Lion | 0 7459 4886 3 | £6.99 | paperback | 144 pages
Review by Susie Blundell (a youth worker in Eastbourne) ****
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Soul Obsession - Nicky Cruz
July 2005
This autobiography brings the reader up to date with what God has been doing in and through the life of Nicky Cruz in the last 30+ years. It is a deeply personal, powerful, challenging and thrilling read and anyone who has read ‘Run Baby Run’ and/or ‘The Cross and the Switchblade’ will want to read this.
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God's Golden Acre
July 2005
The remarkable story of Heather Reynolds, a white South African with an incredible commitment to love and care for hundreds of abandoned, abused, orphaned and terminally ill children.
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