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Archive for 'Jan/Feb 2012'

Book reviews: Personal Bible reading

1. Short study guides from the Good Book Company, series edited by Tim Chester. £3 each. Women of Faith – volumes on the Old and New Testaments Introducing Jesus: Life-changing Encounters from the Gospel of John [...]

Book reviews: Family Worship

1. Books about family worship Lead Your Family in Worship by Francois Carr. Day One. £5 Teach Your Family the Truth by Brian Stone. Day One. £5 Teach Your Children to Pray by Denise George. Christian [...]

Finally alive

My parents were Christians and I went to church with them when I was a child. I always said that I believed in God, but didn’t question too deeply about what that meant to me. At [...]

1859

1859 is the year when revival, which began in America in 1857, spread to the British Isles. That, however, was more climax than ‘turning point’. (A brief account may be found in The church that Christ [...]

The art of balancing

Issues facing young women today I undertook a small scale survey among some of my female friends in their twenties and early thirties to find out what they felt were the top three key issues facing [...]

Getting the gospel out…

A review of some courses that might help The gospel is God’s power to save people (Rom. 1:16), but how, when most won’t darken the door of a Sunday service, do we get unbelievers to engage [...]

The best preaching on earth

Over the last few weeks I’ve listened to some great sermons: Alistair Begg on finding Christ in the book of Ruth, Tim Keller on the crossing of the Red Sea, James MacDonald on learning from and [...]

Family worship

‘Religion was established first in families, and there the devil seeks to crush it… The family is the training ground of Church and State; and if children are not well instructed there, both will fail. Families [...]

Can we really believe the Old Testament?

Do you believe that Jonah was swallowed by a great fish? Do you believe that Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were cast into a furnace and came out alive and unhurt? Was Daniel actually thrown into the [...]

Reaching rural Wales

As you travel through Wales, especially its beautiful countryside, you will notice, dotted on the hills round about, isolated farms, so remote, not only from each other, but from the rest of the community. The thought [...]

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