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Karen Kingsbury
Nine-year-old Cory is effectively an orphan. He lost his mother to pneumonia when he was six, and he’s never met his father, who is rumoured to be an all-star American footballer by the name of Aaron Hill...
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John C Lennox
Far from burying God, John Lennox highlights the important points that science is quite unable to tackle, the really big questions of life that only faith in God can address satisfactorily. Why is there something rather than nothing? How is science itself possible?
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Paul and Liz Griffin
This book is the distillation of the experience of Paul and Liz Griffin, and their work for over 16 years with Ellel Ministries in touching the lives of the abused...
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Gram Seed with Andrea Robinson
God’s grace is amazing – no question – yet it is so easy for us to get used to it. Although we all have our own encounters with this grace, books like ‘One Step Beyond’ do a great job in resharpening our focus...
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RT Kendall
This book is designed to scare the hell out of you and replace it with the concrete assurance that God forgives and restores...
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Tom Wright
I recall as a young preacher being gently corrected for referring to the Holy Spirit as ‘it’ not ‘he’. Albeit somewhat embarrassed, this surprising discovery of the person of the spirit liberated me into a deeper relationship with God...
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John Eldredge
Eldredge’s books have sold eight million copies – that’s a lot of books! His favourite theme is to challenge Christians to rethink what they’ve been taught about their faith and their identity...
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Meic Pearse
When John Lennon asked us to “Imagine there’s no heaven”, he went on to suggest that a world without religion would mean an end to war. Now Richard Dawkins and his atheist colleagues are jumping up and down to tell us the same thing...
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Edited by Robert K Johnson
Jesus used agricultural metaphors, Paul quoted Greek poets, and we too need to find ways of expressing gospel truths in the thought language of our audience...
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Dr Joseph D’Souza and Benedict Rogers
Christians have wildly differing views when it comes to human rights. Into the fray come D’Souza and Rogers in their appeal to Christians to see advocacy and the Christ-centred battle for human rights (used interchangeably in the book with “justice”) as an essential form of Christian mission...
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Alan Jamieson
Knobbly, single-plant caterpillars change into graceful, multilocation butterflies in the dark, dissolving structure known as a chrysalis. The big question is whether you have been through a ‘chrysalis’ experience in your Christian faith. Alan Jamieson describes these in many different ways...
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Roger E Olson
This book is dynamite and must be handled with care. It has the capacity to blow away preconceptions but also the potential to undermine some cherished tenets of the faith...
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Ajith Fernando
This book offers a healthy corrective to a view that comfort and convenience are the rights of Christians when the Bible often expresses that suffering is an essential aspect of the Christian life. It explores the connection between rejoicing and suffering...
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Graham Buxton
Graham Buxton has a problem with the ‘unbiblical dualism’ that undermines the Church’s engagement with culture. On his way to a set of nine theological theses which will offer a way out of our ‘narrow parochialism’, the author traces the development of the sacred-secular divide (Augustine is the culprit) and its influence on Christian thinking...
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Jo Swinney
I heartily enjoyed reading this book in which author Jo Swinney tells how 11 different couples journeyed, sometimes despite the odds, towards marriage. Each story shows just how grand God’s design for marriage is as Swinney’s couples revisit the lows as well as the highs of their (pre) engagement...
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Max Lucado
I’m stunned. In John 3:16, with 26 words (English version), the apostle summarised God’s great good news, Max Lucado takes 140
pages. He does it well with short, punchy sentences, heart-warmingly examining each phrase...
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David Pytches
Soul Survivor, New Wine, ongoing renewal – all owe a debt to David Pytches. Written for personal and theological reflection, his latest book takes a very long look at the opening verses of Matthew 5. No stone seems left unturned as Pytches explores how we can ‘be blessed’ by living God’s way today...
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Myron Bradley Penner & Hunter Barnes
This is an edited collection of online blogs about culture and faith. It starts well, by claiming that you shouldn’t need a PhD to understand theology, but I’m afraid that after a few pages...
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David E Garland & Diana R Garland
This is a book which promises much, with subject matter including the Bible, family, grace and imperfection, but somehow it does not quite deliver...
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Tony Jasper
As a lifelong fan of hymns, choruses and sacred songs, as expected, the experienced Tony Jasper’s informed critique of the near and distant history of the subject is an essay worthy of contemplation...