How should we then live ? By Dr Francis A Schaeffer dvd (2 discs) 1977 with Study Guide£31 from Amazon Can be seen on You Tube In 10 programmes Dr Schaeffer covers the rise and decline of western thought and culture, the movement and development of thought and ideas from Roman times to the present,…
The Most Reluctant Convert : the untold story of CS LewisDVD – Fellowship for Performing Arts, 2021 74 minutes £12.99 This is a quite excellent production, superbly acted and filmed in and around Oxford, showing the progress of the life of CS Lewis from ‘hard-boiled atheist to the most renowned Christian author of the past…
Revelation and Reason : Wesleyan responses to eighteenth century rationalismBy Arthur Skevington Wood The Wesley Fellowship, 1992 103 pages ISBN 0 951 633 228 “This book examines the reaction of John Wesley himself together with two of his associates – John William Fletcher and Joseph Benson – to the challenges of reductionist rationalism in…
Cyrus nations ?: Blessings, Curses or Coincidence ? The Rise and Fall of the British Empire Hatikvah Films dvd, 2017 59 minutes £9.99 Cyrus was the Persian king who allowed the Jewish captives in Babylon to return to their own country to rebuild Jerusalem, the city and the Temple. It was the fulfillment of Isaiah’s…
Gods and Kings : a novel by Lynn Austin (Chronicles of the Kings vol. 1)Bethany House Publishers, 2005 316 pages £9 ISBN 078 0 764 229 893 This is a novel about Hezekiah, 14th King of Judah (one of the ‘good’ kings) who reigned from 716BC to 687BC. His father was Ahaz, a ‘bad’ king…
Who do you think you are ? God thinks you are amazing ! By Steve MawstonScripture Union, 1997 127 pages £1 ISBN 978 1 859 992 036 Specifically aimed at teenagers, this book not only deals with the many anxieties and worries of youngsters beginning to find their identity but successfully manages to relate identity…
From Exile to Restoration : the role of the British Empire in the Restoration of Israel Hatikvah Film Trust, 2008 2 dvds 1) 58 minutes 2) 56 minutes £13 In this film, sister to ‘The Destiny of Britain’, the presenter, Kelvin Crombie, together with Israeli academics and other experts, presents the story of Jewish,…
Lincoln dvd, 2012 Twentieth Century Fox 144 minutes £3 The consummate professionalism of Steven Spielberg is manifestly evident in this film. It is not a full-blown biography of the American President, the focus is rather on a few weeks towards the end of the Civil War in what turned out to be the…
John Wesley : the Man and his Missiondvd, 2012 55 minutes Wesley Mission (Australia) £13.99 This is an Australian production although the presenter is English (?) (Superintendent of the Sydney Mission in Australia) and the superb filming takes place all over England. It is an adequate account of Wesley’s life but rather prosaic and pedestrian…
Unspeakable : facing up to the challenge of evil by Os GuinnessHarperOne, 2005 238 pages £13 ISBN 978 0 060 833 008 Evil is a fact of everyday life and, as the publisher’s blurb puts it, ‘we live in the most murderous hundred years in history and we are the first generation to witness every…