‘Discerning the Spirits’ : evaluating the prophetic voice by Peter Cavanna Grove Books, 200628 pages £3.95 ISBN 1 851 746 218 (Grove Renewal series R 24) According to the author of this booklet, Peter Cavanna, there is a widespread misunderstanding of one of the charismatic gifts which Paul lists in 1 Corinthians ch 12. The…
I talk back to the devil : straightforward appeals for Christ-like living by AW Tozer Authentic, 2009 134 pages £9 ISBN 978 1 850 781 486 Converted at the age of 17, Aiden Tozer had no formal training in a Bible college or seminary but was entirely self taught. Indeed, he didn’t even have a high…
“One word of Truth…” is the title of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s acceptance speech when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970. The title is part of a Russian proverb which says ‘One word of truth outweighs the whole world’. In the news very recently, you will almost certainly have heard or read that…
‘One word of Truth…’ the Nobel Speech on Literature 1970 by Alexander SolzhenitsynThe Bodley Head, 1972 27 pages ISBN 0 370 104 919also available on the internet – look for Nobel Prizes Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) ends his Nobel Prize speech with these words – ‘In Russian the most popular proverbs are about truth. They express…
The Cross and the Swastika by FT Grossmith Word Publishing, 1988 125 pages out of print ISBN 978 0 850 091 526 The author presents an unusual insight and perspective on the Nuremberg trials held after the end of the Second World War. This is the story of Major Henry Gerecke, an American army chaplain…
We owe the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, to the Jews. All of it was written by Jews with the exception of the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts written by Luke if, as is generally accepted, Luke was a gentile, a non-Jew, born in Syria. The Bible, we believe, is a…
Faith in the Wilderness : words of exhortation from the Chinese churchHannah Nation and Simon Liu editors Kirkdale Press, 2022 ISBN 978 1 683 596 042Also available digitally from Lexham Press A collection of nine sermons by different Chinese pastors in a book of about 150 pages is nothing extraordinary, you might say. Yet there…
The Book of Ruth : a journey of faith dvd High Fliers Films, 2019 86 minutes This film is a fairly faithful representation of the Old Testament story of Ruth, Naomi and Boaz with such additional characters and dialogue as judged necessary to make the story flow. A narrator helps the story along but only…
Does Christianity have anything useful to say about the prevailing culture ? Both Jesus and St Paul had things to say about the ‘world’ which, in context, means the ‘prevailing culture’. In Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, we read what Macbeth has to say – “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts…
‘More than one new Bible or New Testament launched every week’ that is the amazing claim in the recently published report (2021-22) of Wycliffe Bible Translators (wycliffe.org.uk). Behind the news is the unflinching commitment of hundreds of translators and back-up workers with the financial and prayer support of thousands around the world. They all want…