The Definition of Christianity : exploring the original meaning of the Christian faithby David Gooding and John Lennox Myrtlefield Encounters, 1992 £5.99 105 pages ISBN 1 874 584 797 It is a welcome and refreshing surprise to find a book about the Christian faith written by two experts – a theologian and a scientist and philosopher…
The God and the Gospel of Righteousness by David PawsonAnchor Recordings, 2014 £4.99 63 pages ISBN 978 1 909 886 681 Reading this book by David Pawson, son of Prof Cecil Pawson who was Vice President ofConference in 1951, is a salutary and sobering experience. With plenty of Bible references and accounts of personal experiences,…
The Great Mystery : Science, God and the Human Quest for Meaning by Alister McGrathHodder & Stoughton, 2018 247 pages £10.99 also available as an ebookISBN 978 1 473 634 336 This is a book about fundamental questions written by an Oxford Professor of Science and Religionwho is a first class communicator.In just 200 pages…
The Story of the English Bible Ambassador Productions, 2005 dvd 52 minutes out of printISBN 978 1 840 301 663 This film gives a straightforward account of how the English Bible came about with the contributions of Wycliffe. Hus, Erasmus, Gutenberg and Tyndale. Using helpful historical explanations by historians, the story is narrated chronologically from…
The Message of 1 & 2 Thessalonians : preparing for the coming King by John StottRev. ed., IVP, 2021 with Study Guide 185 pages £5.99 (also available as an ebook)(The Bible Speaks Today) ISBN 978 1 789 742 442 First published in 1991 and reprinted 12 times says a great deal about the success…
A doubter’s guide to the Bible : inside history’s bestseller for believers and skepticsby John Dickson Zondervan, 2014 217 pages £7.99 Also available as an ebookISBN 978 0310 518 433 There can be little doubt that the Bible, in whichever language, is the world’s bestselling book of all time. Since it was the…
The discipline of spiritual discernment by Tim Challies Crossway Books, 2007 206 pages £13ISBN 978 1 581 349 092 In 1 Corinthians 12 verses 1-11, Paul talks of ‘spiritual gifts’. He lists them as ‘wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, miraculous powers, distinguishing between spirits and tongues or languages and their interpretations’ – eight gifts in all.…
Expelled – no intelligence allowed dvd, NPN Videos. 95 minutes £8 The widely-felt tension between faith and science is still very much a live issue and shows no sign of going away. The views of moderates in both camps does not hold much sway so the arena is sadly left open to extremists. This…
Cows, curses and Christ : disciple making among the Laarim of South Sudan by Philip and Linda Byler.Privately published, 2012 1786 pages £4 (available from Amazon) ISBN 978 8 718 387 742 This is a well told story of missionary work in a very troubled part of Africa – Sudan. It has one very…
Under the same sky : from starvation in North Korea to salvation in America by Joseph Kim with Stephen Talty Mariner Books, 2016 273 pages £12ISBN 978 0 544 705 272 The particular interest of this story about North Korea is that it is written by an insider, an eyewitness in a very secretive society.…