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…
Doubt : how to handle it honestly by Alister McGrath IVP, 1990 £2.30 (Amazon) 144 pages ISBN 0 851 108 504 In just six chapters Alister McGrath grapples honestly and positively with one of the difficulties in the Christian life faced by many at some time or other in their Christian journey. Sadly, some regard…
Every square inch : an introduction to cultural engagement for Christians by Bruce Riley Ashford Lexham Press, 2015 160 pages £12 ISBN 978 1 577 996 200 What an excellent little book ! The author, professor of theology and culture at an American theological college, writes about how Christians can and should engage with their…
by John Lennox Monarch Books, 2017 368 pages £12.99 ISBN 978 0 857 218 728 It is altogether refreshing to find a book written by someone who is not a theologian about a deeply theological subject. By profession, John Lennox is a mathematician (emeritus professor of maths at Oxford), and, as is to be expected…
The Origin of Evil by Chuck Missler (dvd) Koinonia House Europe, 2008 120 minutes $19.99 “There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and it is heavy among men” (Ecclesiastes 6 : 1) Chuck Missler, who died in 2018, was an experienced and very knowledgeable Bible expositor. His background in science and…
By Denis Prager and Joseph Telushkin Touchstone Books, Revised edition, 2003 244 pages £9.99 ISBN 978 0 743246 200 The value of this book in a topic which never loses its topicality, is that it is so well researched and so well documented. The two authors, both Jewish, one a highly respected radio show host…
Wesley \Fellowship Annual Lecture, September 1992 (Occasional Paper no. 7) 26 pages £2.25 ISBN 0 860 713 865 “The presence of evil in the world appears to place thedoctrine of a just and loving God into a no-win situation.” The author of this lecture offers this statement as a consequence, in summary form, of the…
The author of this excellent book, using the findings and evidence gathered by numerous pieces of research, makes the case that the forest is a social network and that trees in a forest operate like a human family. Trees live in close connection to their offspring, communicate with them through ‘the wood wide web’, support…