Book Review
I’ve just come back from attending the Scottish launch of the new Christianity Explored course. I thoroughly recommend that you look into what they are doing there – some great additions to what was already an excellent evangelism tool.
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I heard a story this week from our local children’s worker about a Lego club they’ve just started at the local church. Several children have already requested their own Bibles, and are actively reading them for themselves.
Book Review
This book is the first of a projected series of books in A People on Purpose series. In ten volumes the themes of how God gathers, governs and grows the church will be explored. As the series editor Andrew Roycroft puts it: “this [is an] original series of volumes with the health of the local church at its core.”
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“Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s” was the profound response of Jesus to a political trap set by the Pharisees. What they thought would be their “gotcha” moment only further established His authority.
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Outside, there was a gale blowing; the temperature had dropped several degrees from the recent pleasant warmth, and there was even hail bashing against the window.
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Sometimes a book for review hits my doorstep at just the right time; Slow Theology is one of them! It arrived a day or so after I had returned from a relaxing fortnight’s holiday, and I was about to go up a gear or two in preparation for a busy period that was just around the corner. This book made me pause and re-evaluate why I felt I needed to be in such a rush.
Music Review
Lament is a healthy part of the Christian life. en reader Andrew Cook raised a crucial point for those of us charged with planning and leading congregational worship.
Website Review
Truth:78, named after Psalm 78, describe their vision as being that “the next generations may know, honour, and treasure God, setting their hope in Christ alone, so that they will live as faithful disciples for the glory of God.”
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“Every man’s conscience is vile and depraved. You cannot depend on it to be your guide.” So says the preacher in Bob Dylan’s Man in the Long Black Coat. Here, by contrast, we encounter “the sanctity of every human conscience”. In doing so, we are introduced to people that we benefit from meeting, even when we may hesitate to give them our vote.
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You may think this is jumping the gun a bit, but Easter isn’t that far away, and Tesco have been selling chocolate eggs for weeks now. So, here are some books about the resurrection.
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"Was it a legitimate exposé of wrong - or simply giving more exposure to it?" ... en's editor, David Baker, reviews Louis Theroux's new Netflix documentary.
