I have to confess that I became increasingly frustrated as I read this book. Frustrated because I wished I had read it when I was starting out in pastoral ministry 30 years ago and also because what is advocated here is so glaringly obvious and biblical that I wondered why I hadn’t seen it more…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Given the contentious and divisive issue that worship has been in recent decades, it is perhaps surprising that there are so few books published which look at the biblical basis and nature of worship. R C Sproul’s book is a very welcome contribution to the debate and is, as you would expect from him, firmly…

“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…

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,…