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By Grace Alone: How the Grace of God Amazes Me

To be honest, there was no way I was not going to love this book! It’s about my favourite biblical topic, it’s by my favourite preacher/theologian, it’s based on one of my favourite hymns and the foreword is by a friend who is my favourite African preacher. But, even if all that had not been…

Baroness Cox: A Voice for the Voiceless

Politicians generally don’t have a good reputation in the UK these days, and I have to confess to being no great respecter of most of them myself. However, there is one, unelected politician, a member of the House of Lords, who is almost universally respected and admired, even by those on opposite sides of the…

Dug Down Deep: Unearthing What to Believe and Why it Matters

If you like reading biographies and/or autobiographies and theology then you’ll like this, because it’s both an autobiography of the author, an influential Pastor and Blogger in the States, and a very readable systematic theology. Joshua Harris traces his life from being raised in an evangelical Christian family through his years of rebellion, his conversion…

JOHN CALVIN – A HEART FOR DEVOTION, DOCTRINE AND DOXOLOGY

Derek Thomas begins his answer to the question, `Who was John Calvin?’ with the words “theologian, pastor, preacher, correspondent, churchman, statesman–John Calvin was all of these and more. Proverbially, he was more than just the sum of his parts. Five hundred years later, he is still read, argued over, defended, even vilified. For some, his…

WHATS SO GREAT ABOUT THE DOCTRINES OF GRACE?

“For many of us, the awakening of our minds to the sovereignty of God is one of these unforgettable moments. “It’s like being born again, again,” many Christians remark after their faith is renewed by an understanding of the doctrines of grace. Everything changes. It is not that they begin to trust God–all believers must…

FOR THE LOVE OF INDIA: The Story of Henry Martyn

Henry Martyn’s name must surely rank alongside those of David Brainerd and Robert Murray M’Cheyne. All three died very young, Martyn living the longest and dying aged just 31. All three had an undying passion to reach the lost with the Gospel, and all three exhibited unusual depths of holiness and devotion to God. However,…