Professor Julian Evans opens up a fascinating line of enquiry in Scripture
Since God’s Trees – Trees, Forests and Wood in the Bible was published two years ago by DayOne, there has been an unexpected consequence.
Not only has the book sold well and been reprinted, but numerous requests have been received for talks. In 2015 alone, 28 presentations were given to all sorts of groups – prayer breakfasts, ladies’ meetings, evangelistic and one-off church events, as might be expected, and surprisingly to non-church audiences too such as U3A, WI, science societies and forestry groups. The appeal seems to be the unusual perspective on how trees and wood in the Bible affirm Scripture and can enrich our understanding of the gospel. The talk is not dry botany, but takes seven contrasting topics on the tree theme; here we look briefly at three.
