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Thoughts on Religious Experience by Archibald Alexander The new year seemed like a good time to get stuck into a meaty book again after some easy-reading picks in the busyness at the end of last year. So far this one is proving to be worthy of slow, thoughtful reading. What an enormously complex subject of […]

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The Pastor’s Soul – The Call and Care of an Undershepherd by Brian Croft and Jim Savastio, published by Evangelical Press (2018). Conrad Mbewe suggests that this book should be read by pastors at least once a year as a spiritual health check. I agree. Especially Part One where Paul’s command to Timothy (1 Timothy […]

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Pause – How to enjoy God, find hope & bear fruit through midlife and the menopause by Sarah Allen (10Publishing, 2024) I’m must admit to being rather dismissive when I first saw this book being publicised. I mean, really? Do we really have to have a Christian book about every stage of life… even the […]

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Covenant Foundations by Alec Motyer, published by Christian Focus Publications (2024) This is well written, and in as simple language as it can get when the topic is Covenant Theology! It gives some truly enlightening explanations of Bible passages. It traces the backbone of God’s covenants running through the whole Bible, and thus it confirms […]

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Love the Ones Who Drive You Crazy: Eight Truths for Pursuing Unity in your Church by Jamie Dunlop We all know the familiar texts on the importance of brotherly love and unity in the church. But are we honest with ourselves about our commitment to this? Especially unity with ‘those people’ – the ones who, […]

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Sermons by William Gadsby (Gospel Standard Publications, 1991) Many have testified to the Christ exalting nature of William Gadsby’s sermons. It is to these that I have turned this week, and this extract from a sermon on ‘The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad’ (Psalm 126:3) illustrates Gadsby’s forthright style. […]

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Through Water & Fire by Matthew Wainwright (Wakeman, 2023). Matthew Wainwright has written another brilliant historical novel! Through Water & Fire is set in the exciting times of Tudor England when Tyndale’s translation of the New Testament is being smuggled illegally into the hands of the common man and the truths of the Reformation are […]

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Evangelical Pharisees by Michael Reeves, (Crossway, 2023) In Evangelical Pharisees Michael Reeves is writing to Christian believers on the theme of hypocrisy. He writes out of a concern to see orthodoxy in doctrine not just remaining as head knowledge, but leading to a change in heart and life. In the first chapter, ‘Beware of the […]

Why Everything Matters - The Gospel in Ecclesiastes

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Why Everything Matters – The Gospel in Ecclesiastes by Philip G. Ryken (Christian Focus Publications, 2015) Ecclesiastes can be a tricky book to grasp on an immediate reading and this layman’s guide (the author has written a fuller commentary for scholars) unpicks the literary style and pinpoints the main themes in short chapters that are […]

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The Balanced Pastor by John Benton (Grace Publications, 2023). After many years in pastoral ministry John Benton is now Director for Pastoral Support at the Pastor’s Academy, London Seminary. This book is actually an omnibus edition of three recent booklets but is nevertheless slim and concise. The subjects covered are:- Benton writes simply and with […]

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The Church of Acts Two – The Scriptural Pattern for the Church Today by Matthew Hyde (Gospel Standard Publications, 2023). This book is made up of five sermons preached at Galeed Chapel, Brighton. They are sermons to a particular church within a particular denomination, but they have relevance to all who are seeking to understand […]

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Memorable Loss – A Story of Friendship in the Face of Dementia by Karen Martin (Christian Focus Publications, 2023) This is like no other book I have read before! The author, Karen Martin, writes in a narrative non-fiction form which I found compelling. The story of her friendship with an older lady who goes on […]

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