July 25, 2008

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Between Sundays

Issue published Reviews Author 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...

God's undertaker

Issue published Reviews Author 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?

Hope and healing for the abused

Issue published Reviews Author 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...

One step beyond

Issue published Reviews Author 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...

Second chance

Issue published Reviews Author 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...

Surprised by hope

Issue published Reviews Author 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...

Walking with God

Issue published Reviews Author 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...

The gods of war

Issue published Reviews Author 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...

Reframing theology and film

Issue published Reviews Author 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...

On the side of the angels

Issue published Reviews Author 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...

Chrysalis

Issue published Reviews Author 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...

Reformed and Always Reforming: The Postconservative Approach to Evangelical Theology

Issue published Reviews Author 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...

The Call to Joy and Pain

Issue published Reviews Author 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...

Celebrating Life: Beyond the Sacred-Secular Divide

Issue published Reviews Author 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...

Cheerful Madness

Issue published Reviews Author 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...

3:16 The Numbers of Hope

Issue published Reviews Author 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...

Upside Down

Issue published Reviews Author 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...