The twilight of atheism : the rise and fall of disbelief in the modern world by Alister McGrathRider, 2004 279 pages £12.99 ISBN 978 1 844 135 748 A wide-ranging study of disbelief from an academic with an easy and engaging style. Prof. McGrath begins with a brief survey of atheism in classical Greece and…
The Barnabas Factor: the power of encouragement by Derek WoodIVP, 1988 £2 available second-hand from Amazon 159 pages ISBN 0 851 104 800 Taking the character of Barnabas from the book of Acts, Derek Wood uses his example as a model for us as Christians to emulate. The setting is an imagined church in…
Renaissance: the power of the Gospel however dark the times by Os Guinness IVP Books, 2014 £11.99 187 pages ISBN 978 0 830 836 710 If you prefer watching to reading, Os Guinness has a YouTube presentation of this book which lasts 1 hour 16 minutes. Dr Guinness is a leading evangelical Christian in America…
The Uniqueness of Christ by David Pawson 2 DVDs Anchor Recordings, 1990 4 hours £9.99 This presentation is also available free to view or to download at DavidPawson.com There is also a slightly different version on YouTube 1 hour 28 minutes There are 6 teaching sessions in these two DVDs – Part 1 Is He…
The Twelve Prophets with Hebrew text, English translation and commentary.Soncino Press, 1948 368 pages Available secondhand from Amazon via Langdon etraders The series of Soncino commentaries in 14 volumes covering the whole of the Tenach has stood the test of time (with many reprints) in offering knowledgeable, helpful and wise comments on the text of…
Can we trust the Gospels ? by Peter J Williams Crossway, 2018 £5.99 153 pagesISBN 978 1 433 552 953 Available on Kindle The reliability of the Bible as we know it is often attacked as being untrustworthy, its text corrupted over the ages since it was originally set down in writing, so…
The Lady with a Lamp dvd Studiocanal, 1951 99 minutes £10 Is there anyone who, on hearing the words ‘the lady with a lamp’, would fail to think of Florence Nightingale ? The phrase explicitly referring to Florence Nightingale was immortalised by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem Santa Filomena…
Judging : when ? why ? how ? by Derek Prince DPM, 2002 128 pages £6.99 You don’t really need to use a concordance to see how frequently the words ‘judge’ or ‘judging’ or ‘judgement’ occur in holy writ (nearly 3 pages of small print in Cruden’s Complete Concordance). By this measure alone it is…
Sister religions ? dvd Hatikvah Films, 2014 £9.99 90 minutes Using the expertise of three Christian leaders – Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, Rev Dr Mark Durie andElizabeth Kendal – Kel Richards, the religious affairs editor for an Australian radio channel, andStephen Briggs probe in some depth what similarities and differences there are between Judaism,Islam and Christianity.…
Surveillance capitalism : the hidden costs of the digital revolution by Jonathan Ebsworth, Samuel Johns, and Michael Dodson Jubilee Centre, 2021 (Cambridge Papers vol 30 no 2 June 2021) Available to download for free at www.jubilee-centre.org/category/cambridge-papers New terminology arises today at breathtaking speed and the Jubilee Centre provides a valuable service in not only drawing…