by Dwight Pryor CFI Communications 3 cds £12 2 1/2 hours Dr Dwight Pryor is a Messianic Jew, that is, he recognises and accepts Jesus Christ as the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament, the Son of God and Saviour. Dr Pryor is a very experienced Bible teacher. In these cds he explores…
Susanna Wesley by Arnold Dallimore Baker Books, 1993 £6.99 168 pagesISBN 978 0 801 030 185 Also available as an audiobook Among the many published books on the life of Susanna Wesley, Arnold Dallimore’s biography, especially written for women, is better viewed as a family portrait with Susanna as the central figure. There are…
Through a glass darkly : journeys through science, faith and doubt – a memoir by Alister McGrath Hodder & Stoughton, 2020 225 pages ISBN 978 1 529 327 601 also available as an ebook Alister McGrath takes us through his life’s journey from an ardent atheist as a teenager and a temporary flirt with Marxism leading…
Moral questions of the Bible : timeless truth in a changing world by David Instone-Brewer Lexham Press, 2019 286 pages £12 ISBN 978 1 683 592 952 This is an excellent book well worth dipping in to and keeping for future reference. Dr Instone-Brewer is a Research Fellow at Tyndale House in Cambridge and is…
Man’s search for meaning : the classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust by Viktor E. Frankl Rider, 2004 154 pages £7.99 ISBN 978 1 844 132 393 I was moved by this book. Who could ever fail to be moved by such a story ? Part of its power is surely that Viktor Frankl…
Finding the Path : the search for spiritual reality by Roger Forster new, revised edition, Frameworks, 1991 96 pages ISBN 978 0 851 112 183 Originally written for university and college students, this revised version is a happy combination of evangelism and doughty defence of the Christian faith. Roger Forster, trained at Cambridge in mathematics…
The Upside-Down Kingdom by Donald B Kraybill Marshalls, 1978 318 pages 978 0 551 011 885 Donald Kraybill is, in his own words, ‘a theological layman’. His graduate qualifications in sociology become quickly apparent as you read this book for there is a great deal of sociological reference and explanation in this work – too…
A Flame of Love : a personal choice of Charles Wesley’s verse by Timothy Dudley-Smith Triangle (SPCK), 1987 160 pages Available second-hand from Amazon ISBN 978 0 281 043 002 To remember the bicentenary of the death of Charles Wesley, the greatest of all English hymn writers, as well as the 250th anniversary of…
The preaching service – the glory of the Methodists : a study of the piety, ethos and development of the Methodist preaching service by Adrian Burdon Grove Books, 1991 42 pages £3.50 ISBN 1 851 741 712 These words of John Wesley appear on the title page – “The morning preaching is the glory…
On Jesus by Douglas Groothuis Wadsworth, 2002 £20 98 pages ISBN 978 0 534 583 941 (Wadsworth Philosophers Series) This is one of a series of well over 70 compact volumes dealing with the work and thought of great philosophers, both classic and contemporary. This book by a scholar (professor of philosophy…