• We hold the future
• The Commentary
  Advice about strikes
• Renaming your church?
  Pastor Chris Thomas shares his experience
• King's speech?
  Pat William shares her remarkable story
• Young, Christian and unashamed
  About Sorted, a prodigious youth event
• Contending for Christ in Dubai
• Caymanian Christians
• Polygamy?
  Towards a biblical response
• Christian anniversaries 2012
• Third culture kid
  Youngsters who grow up outside their parents' home culture
• Crossing the culture
  Leonardo's modern mind
• The Music Exchange
• Unapologetic Christianity
  Morality and deity
• Letter from America
  Tebowing!
• Roland Lamb, 1917-2011
  Obituary
• The Third Degree
  Missions' flying start
• Monthly youth leaders column
  Team player
• Notes to growing Christians
  What will 2012 bring?

other articles

• Written on the heart
• Pigeon English - Secular shelf life
• The New Testament for everyone
• The Bible book by book
• The minister's wife - Privileges, pressures and pitfalls
• Josiah's reformation
• The money mentor - Getting to grips with your finances
• Our home is like a little church
• What is the church?
• Fathering leaders, motivating mission - Restoring the role of the apostle in today's church
• The green mirage - Why a low-carbon economy may be further off than we think
• You're on your own - How policy produced Britain's pension crisis
• Who is Jesus?
• Smooth stones from ancient brooks - Selections from the writings of Thomas Brooks
• Wait till you see the butterfly
• The life and times of Charles Henry Mackintosh
• Jesus the hero
• Remember - The things that matter when hope is hard to find
• John Knox and the Reformation
• Divide & ... multiply - A vision and a way to go for self-multiplying churches
• What to look for in a pastor - A guide for pastoral search committees
• The doctrine & practice of holiness
• Freedom and order - History, politics and the English Bible

Your kids’ church

WHAT IS THE CHURCH?
By Mandy Groce and Bill Bell
Illustrated by Tessa Janes
Christian Focus. 20 pages. £2.99
ISBN 978 1 845 507 039

OUR HOME IS LIKE A LITTLE CHURCH
By Lindsey Blair and Bobby Gillies
Illustrated by Tessa Janes
Christian Focus. 12 pages. £2.99
ISBN 978 1 845 505 523

These two excellent booklets for children have their origins in Sojourn Community Church, Louisville, which was planted some years ago with the involvement of graduates from Southern Baptist Seminary.

The first seeks to explain to children, in rhyme, that a church is not a building, but the people of God who love Jesus and learn of him from the Bible. The second is similar, but explains that a Christian family should be like a little church where God is worshipped every day and dad is the ‘pastor’.

Both books are beautifully illustrated, a joy to handle, fun to read to the kids and will help impart a proper sense of identity to congregations and families. Not least, Our home is like a little church will challenge fathers to take a spiritual lead at home.

John Benton