John Wesley preached a series of sermons on the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). In one of them, sermon 22 in the book of 44 sermons (1944), based on Matthew 6 v16-18, the larger part of the message is an exposition of the Lord’s Prayer. Helpful and useful though that is, the more interesting…
The Lady with a Lamp dvd Studiocanal, 1951 99 minutes £10 Is there anyone who, on hearing the words ‘the lady with a lamp’, would fail to think of Florence Nightingale ? The phrase explicitly referring to Florence Nightingale was immortalised by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem Santa Filomena…
Judging : when ? why ? how ? by Derek Prince DPM, 2002 128 pages £6.99 You don’t really need to use a concordance to see how frequently the words ‘judge’ or ‘judging’ or ‘judgement’ occur in holy writ (nearly 3 pages of small print in Cruden’s Complete Concordance). By this measure alone it is…
Of the many remarkable stories to come out of the Second World War, one of the most ingenious improvisations in a situation of extreme danger and difficulty must surely be the story of the tanker Ohio, recounted in detail by Sir Max Hastings in his book ‘Operation Pedestal’. The island of Malta was isolated and…
Sister religions ? dvd Hatikvah Films, 2014 £9.99 90 minutes Using the expertise of three Christian leaders – Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, Rev Dr Mark Durie andElizabeth Kendal – Kel Richards, the religious affairs editor for an Australian radio channel, andStephen Briggs probe in some depth what similarities and differences there are between Judaism,Islam and Christianity.…
Surveillance capitalism : the hidden costs of the digital revolution by Jonathan Ebsworth, Samuel Johns, and Michael Dodson Jubilee Centre, 2021 (Cambridge Papers vol 30 no 2 June 2021) Available to download for free at www.jubilee-centre.org/category/cambridge-papers New terminology arises today at breathtaking speed and the Jubilee Centre provides a valuable service in not only drawing…
How forgiveness works by Jonathan Baker Grove Books, 1995 (Grove Spirituality series, 53) 24 pages £3.95 ISBN 978 1 851 742 913 The beauty and attractiveness of Grove Books is that they cover big subjects in a short span. This one, dealing with forgiveness, is no exception. In just 24 pages, Jonathan Baker…
And God changed his mind because his people prayedby Brother Andrew and Susan De Vore Williams Marshall Pickering, 1991 191 pages ISBN 978 0 551 023 864 ‘A challenge to fatalism’ is how the publishers describe this work by Brother Andrew, best known for his work smuggling Bibles behind the Iron Curtain where Christians…
It is somewhat odd that, in Christian thinking, a time of difficulty, danger or despair is just the time for counting your blessings. Name them one by one as encouraged by Joseph Addison in his hymn ‘When all thy mercies, O my Godmy rising soul surveys,transported with the view, I’m lostin wonder, love and praise.…
The approach to truth : scientific and religious by Martyn Lloyd-Jones Tyndale Press, 1963 27 pages Although set in the time when it was published – the 1960s – this lecture, originally given to a medical audience, is full of wisdom for our own time – and for more than a medical audience. Following the outline…