Archive for 'Book reviews'
Help! My teen is rebellious
This is just one of many booklets in a series, which are edited by Dr. Paul Tautges. Most of the authors in the series are American and some of the authors have personal experience of the [...]
Touched by Greatness: Women in the life of Moses
The author is a Professor of Theology in Women’s Studies in Texas. Don’t be put off – her prose style is easy and the material accessible. The length of this book belies the depth of its [...]
John MacArthur: Servant of the Word and Flock
When this book first landed on my desk I picked it up with a strange combination of eagerness and hesitation. Eagerness, because anything written by Iain Murray is bound to be serious and important as well [...]
A lineage of grace
A Lineage of Grace is a series of five novels about Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary; five women whose lives and backgrounds made them unlikely choices to feature in the family line of Jesus Christ. [...]
Christmas gift ideas
Books for travel buffs Attractive travel guides from Day One that would prompt a holiday or days out. £10 each. The House of Parliament: Cradle of democracy. C. H. Spurgeon: In the footsteps of ‘The Prince [...]
With two hands
What’s the title and why is it significant? It’s called With Two Hands and that’s significant because when people became Christians in the book, they raised two hands, one hand to renounce the devil and the [...]
TOOLKIT: helping you share the gospel
This is a forty-seven page handbag (or pocket) sized booklet written by various evangelists. It is arranged in helpful sections and gives quotes, facts and Bible verses aimed at helping you to find something to say [...]
Test, train, affirm, & send into ministry
This little book – which can be read quite comfortably in a single sitting if you are undisturbed – challenges a number of assumptions that many Christians make about the call to the pastoral ministry. It [...]
Who Chose the Gospels?
This scholarly but well-written book is aimed at two readerships. The first is the ‘liberal’ scholarly community which sees the acceptance of the four gospels in the early church as the outcome of a keen struggle [...]
The Life of John Milne of Perth
The early nineteenth-century was a golden era for the Scottish church. We are familiar with the names of Thomas Chalmers, Robert Murray M’Cheyne, the Bonar brothers, William C. Burns, William Cunningham and Rabbi Duncan, but that [...]
Reaching rural Wales
Great to read this. I've been doing a similar thing, going around rura
A little known quarryman in Wales
Thank you for your wonderful article. I happened onto the movie, "Bey
So you have no children?
Thank you so much for writing this article. It is very comforting. It'
The great harvest
I live and worship in Yeadon, in a church born out of the revival. It
Feminine Threads
I was interested in the above review of Diana Severance's book. Althou