Andrew Bonar Diary & Life
– Marjory Bonar. Banner of Truth. The record of God’s work in the life of one whose life-long concern was communion with God and his diary discloses that hidden yet most helpful aspect of his witness. Bonar said, ‘One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over on
An Instrument of Revival
The Complete life of Evan Roberts, 1878-1951 – Brynmor Pierce Jones. Logos Books. For nine months – between November 1904 and August, 1905 God used a twenty-six-year-old coal miner named Evan Roberts to channel a revival movement so profound that it influenced Wales and the world. 2ProphetU2ProphetU is an online magazine/website, started by Warren Wiersbe
Remembering Birmingham
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter to America – 50 Years Later – Edward Gilbreath. IVP Books. In this short ebook, Gilbreath tells the story behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” a work that still calls us to accountability fifty years after it was first written. Gilbreath writes, “From time to
The Global Public Square
Religious Freedom and the Making of a World Safe for Diversity – Os Guinness. IVP Books. Throughout this book, Guinness presents the need to find, globally and publicly, our individual soul freedom. Writing to all people, he takes a step outside of the current analyses and reports on religious conflicts, oppression and persecutions, calling for
Popcultured
Thinking Christianly About Style, Media and Entertainment – Steve Turner. IVP Books. Understanding what drives popular culture is crucial for the church – whether we are consumers or creators. It will help us relate to the stories, the poetry, the idolatry of our times – and so to speak powerfully to our culture’s hopes and
People-Pleasing Pastors
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Approval-Motivated Leadership – Charles Stone. IVP Praxis. While wanting to make people happy is generally a good thing, if leaders frequently seek validation from others because of an emotionally immature self, a host of issues can spring up. in an effort to keep all parties content or at least mollified, the
Letters to a Young Pastor
– Calvin Miller. David C. Cook. Calvin Miller didn’t learn everything he needed to know about being a pastor in his first year of seminary or his twenty-fifth year being with the church. He learned it along the way. And he’s got the battle scars to prove it. Having survived and sometimes even thrived, Miller
Making the Best of a Bad Decision
How to put your regrets behind you, embrace grace, and move toward a better future – Erwin W. Lutzer. Tyndale. We all make life decisions we come to regret, but here’s the good news: You can clear your conscience, make things right with God and others, and get to a place of grace and new
The Secret
What Great Leaders Know and Do – Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. What is the secret of great leadership? It’s a question that everyone in a position of authority–whether in a multi-national corporation or a local volunteer group–wonders sooner or later. Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller uncover the secret that great leaders already
Wounded by God’s People
Discovering How God’s Love Heals Our Hearts – Anne Graham Lotz. Zondervan. Everyone has been wounded…hurt…neglected…by others. But as Anne Graham Lotz looks back on her life, the sad truth is that her most painful wounds were inflicted by religious people–God’s people. Anne not only understands the wounded, she also understands how easy it is
Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God
The Life Story of the Author of My Utmost for His Highest – David McCasland. Discovery House Publishers. Oswald Chambers was born in Scotland and spent much of his boyhood there. His ministry of teaching and preaching took him for a time to the United States and Japan. The last six years of his life
Out of Africa
A set of original diary pages by missionary and explorer David Livingstone, recording his experiences in Congo in 1871 during his final African expedition, has been published for the first time. Livingstone scribbled his raw observations–rewritten in the diary he published later–using berry ink on old newspaper. Today the ink is nearly invisible. Researchers coaxed