William Grimshaw – Living the Christian Life
Hardback, 90pp. Published by Evangelical Press, Grange Close, Faverdale North, Darlington, DL3 0PH, UK. Price £7.95. ISBN 978-0-85234-691-4. For most people, the Yorkshire town of Haworth is associated with the Bronte family. However, as this little book shows, there was a mighty man of God called William Grimshaw who also left an indelible imprint on […]
The Tabernacle, the Priesthood and the Offerings
Paperback. Published by John Ritchie Ltd., 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock, Scotland KA3 1RL. Price £5.99. ISBN 978 1 904064 55 8. This book is part of Ritchie’s Classic Reprint Series of publications and, as the title suggests, is split into three sections. The first section, which considers the Tabernacle, concentrates upon the structure itself, meditating upon […]
Prophecy Matters
Paperback, 52 pages, Published by and available from the author, 5 Craigie View, Perth, PH2 0DP, UK. Price £2.00. The author of this helpful little book defines his purpose as being ‘not to provide an in-depth exposition of future events’, but rather ‘to whet the appetite of the readers to start their own research on […]
Look Straight Ahead – A Call to Men for Moral Purity
Paperback, 164 pages. Everyday Publications, 310 Killaly Street West, Port Colborne, Ontario, L3K 6A6 Canada. ISBN 978-0-88873-464-8. This is a scripturally-based and balanced consideration of the temptations to sexual sin in Western society. It is a book of pastoral ministry for men and its aims are: to prevent men from falling into sexual sin; to […]
Dining with the Master
Paperback, 102pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly Street West, Port Colborne, Ontario, L3K 6A6, Canada. Price £5.99 ISBN 978 1 897117 84 2. As Roy Hill writes in his Foreword, ‘This delightful little book deals with the Gospel records of the Saviour at breakfast, lunch, dinner and even at a wedding feast’. Within […]
When Heaven Calls your Name
Paperback, 104pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ. Price £5.00 ISBN 978-1-84625-102-3. The book is sub-titled ‘People in the Bible who heard God speak’. There are many examples in the Bible of individuals God called by name, but only seven men to whom, in calling, God repeated their name, beginning with […]
The Shack
Should I read it? Would I enjoy it? Many will have heard of, if not read, a Christian fiction book called The Shack. The book has enjoyed huge recent popularity. It has topped the USA Today and New York Times bestsellers lists and remained the number one bestseller on the latter for thirty-three straight weeks. […]
The Levitical Offerings
Paperback, 48pp. Published by Precious Seed Publications, PO Box 573, Fareham, Hampshire, PO14 9FB, UK. Price £4.00 (incl p&p) ISBN 978-1-871642-27-8. This booklet was first published as a series of articles in Precious Seed magazine over the years 1965-66. Their publication in booklet form has been undertaken that it might stimulate a new generation to […]
Discipline with Care
Paperback, 96pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ. Price £5.00 ISBN 978-1-84625-125-8. It is unusual to find a book entirely devoted to the subject of church discipline. Stephen McQuoid is to be commended for not only dealing with such a difficult subject but also for doing so in a sensitive and […]
Day by Day – Pictures and Parables
Paperback, 384pp. Published by Precious Seed Publications, PO Box 573, Fareham, Hampshire, PO14 9FB, UK. Price £8.50 (incl p&p) ISBN 978-1-871642-26-1. As the twelfth book in this popular series, this volume concentrates on the Bible’s rich use of metaphor. With authors well known to many of the Lord’s people, the book follows the pattern of […]
Choise Gleanings 2010 – Daily Devotional Planner
Paperback, 394pp, Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada. ISBN 1897117-35-3. The first edition of the Choice Gleanings Devotional Calendar was published in 1940. The 2010 edition marks 70 years of continued publishing of the Calendar. Over the years the print runs have continued to grow and the distribution […]
William Grimshaw – Living the Christian Life
Hardback, 90pp. Published by Evangelical Press, Grange Close, Faverdale North, Darlington, DL3 0PH, UK Price £7.95 ISBN 978-0-85234-691-4. For most people, the Yorkshire town of Haworth is associated with the Bronte family. However, as this little book shows, there was a mighty man of God called William Grimshaw who also left an indelible imprint on […]
The Messiah and the Feasts of Isreal
Paperback, 192pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada. L3K 6A6. Available in the UK from John Ritchie Ltd. Price £7.50. ISBN 1-897117-59-0. In this relatively small volume Bryan Sheldon considers the Feasts of Jehovah in relation to Messiah, looking at them in detail and recognizing that they describe […]
Rahab – Encountering the woman snatched from destruction
Paperback, 80pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster HR6 8NZ, UK. Price £5.00. ISBN 978-1-84625-135-1. This is part of the Face2Face series of books edited by Simon Robinson. As its title suggests, it covers the scriptural record of Rahab, both in terms of the New Testament as well as the Old Testament passages. […]
No King in Israel – The History of the Judges
Paperback, 224pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, ON, Canada L3K 6A6. Available in UK from John Ritchie Ltd. Price £9.99. ISBN 978-189711-762-0. ‘This book was written to develop the link between the history of the Judges and the letters of Christ to the seven churches of Asia in Revelation […]
Love Letters To The World
Paperback, 264pp. Available from Bible Educational Services, 19 Cog Road, Sully, Vale of Glamorgan CF64 5TD, UK. Price: £10.00, incl p&p. ISBN: 978-184030-204-2. The book is subtitled ‘The Inspiring Story of 50 Years of Postal Bible School’, and inspiring it is. Many of us will have been influenced or affected by the work of Postal […]
Daniel – Godly Living in a Hostile World
Paperback, 86pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, ON, Canada L3K 6A6. Available in the UK from John Ritchie Ltd., 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock KA3 1RH. Price £8.99. ISBN 978-189711-773-6. Many books have been written on the prophetic chapters of Daniel but fewer that consider the character of the man that […]
Collected Writings of Les Rainey, Volume 3
Paperback, 420pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, ON, Canada L3K 6A6. Available in UK from John Ritchie Ltd. Price £12.99. ISBN 978-189711-731-6. Volume 3 of these Collected Writings follows an identical format to Volume 2 with the exception that while the former united in one book three separate publications […]
Day by Day – Pictures and Parables
The following article forms the Introduction and two pages of our latest book in the ever popular Day by Day series. The theme for this volume is ‘Pictures and Parables’ and these selections are to give the magazine reader a flavour of what will be available when the book is published later this year. See […]
What is the World coming to?
Paperback, 284pp. Published by Trafford Publishing (UK) Limited, 9 Park End Street, 2nd floor, Oxford, OX1 1HH, UK. Price £10.32, ISBN 978-1-425112-66-0. As the writer states on the cover of his book, ‘A casual scan through any daily newspaper will reveal that there is much that causes many to worry concerning the future’. It is […]
Six-Day Creation. Does it matter what you believe?
Paperback, 64pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster HR6 8NZ, UK. Price £4.00, ISBN 978-1-84625-097-2. This book offers ‘a succinct and important argument in favour of a literal reading of Genesis 1-11’. Within the limits of a relatively small volume, Robert Gurney has produced a spirited defence of ‘Six-Day Creation’. His aim is […]
One God One Message
Paperback, 396pp, Published by Xulon Press, c/o of The Way of Righteousness, P.O. Box 4006, Greenville, SC 29607, USA. Available from John Ritchie, 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock, KA3 1RH, UK. Price £8.99, ISBN 978-1-60266-317-6. The ‘Prologue’ of this book states that it ‘offers the chance of a lifetime; to take an unhurried journey through the world’s […]
God’s Undertaker. Has science buried God?
Paperback, 192pp. Published by Lion Hudson plc, Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford, OX2 8DR. Price £8.99, ISBN 978-0-745953-03-8. This book should be required reading for pupils and students who find themselves on the ‘back foot’ when faced with teachers and lecturers who have become infected with what Professor Alister McGrath has termed ‘The Dawkins […]
Collected Writings of Les Rainey, Volume 2
Paperback, 614pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, ON, Canada L3K 6A6. Available in UK from John Ritchie Ltd. Price £19.99, ISBN 978-1-897117-30-9. Within this single volume three books are brought together on Old Testament studies. The first, ‘The Bible in Brief: The Old Testament’, divides the testament into four […]
Walking with God
Paperback, 100pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly Street West, Port Colborne, ON, Canada L3K 6A6. Price £6.99 ISBN 978-1-897117-58-3 DR. E. A., JOHNSTON is a fellow of the Stephen Olford Institute for Biblical Preaching and has written a number of books that have been reviewed in this magazine. In Walking with God the […]
The Fragrance of Christ in the Levitical Offerings
Paperback, 95pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly Street West, Port Colborne, ON, Canada L3K 6A6. Price £6.99 ISBN 978-1-897117-63-7 As the author says in his introduction, ‘The study of the Old Testament offerings is a fascinating way to enrich your spiritual walk with the Lord and to open your inner eyes to the […]
Key Bible Concepts
David Gooding and John Lennox Paperback, 144pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly Street West, Port Colborne, ON, Canada L3K 6A6. Price £6.95 ISBN 978-1-882701-41-0 This is a reprint of a book first published in 1997 and contains a series of seventeen articles initially published in the Russian Teacher’s Newspaper Uchitelskaya Gazeta. The preface […]
In Remembrance of these things
Paperback, 92pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly Street West, Port Colborne, ON, Canada L3K 6A6. Price £6.99 ISBN 978-1-897117-41-5 The author of this book, born in the Netherlands, was for thirty years a missionary in Japan. He returned to Holland in 1986 where he continued to be active in the Lord’s work until […]
Enjoy your Bible
William MacDonald and Arthur Farstad. Paperback, 124pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly Street West, Port Colborne, ON, Canada L3K 6A6. Price £6.95 ISBN 978-1-882701-58-5 In a day when the scriptures are so often handled superficially, any book which encourages young believers to engage in regular and systematic study of them is to be […]
Christ Loved the Church
Paperback, 108pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly Street West, Port Colborne, ON, Canada L3K 6A6. Price £6.99 ISBN 978-1-897117-60-6 The author of this little book shows himself to be firmly committed to the New Testament’s teaching on the church universal and local and believes that these principles hold good for the twenty-first century. […]
The Dawn of Heaven Breaks
Paperback, 156pp. Published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North, Darlington, DL3 0PH. Price £8.95 ISBN 978-0-85234-641-9 Sharon James has collected an anthology of hymns, Bible readings and other writings under the sub-title of ‘Anticipating Eternity’. The book is divided into five sections – ‘Anticipating Heaven’; ‘Times of illness and pain’; ‘Aging’; ‘Facing Death’; and ‘And Then […]
Stepping stones … through the Bible day by day
Edited by Ian Rees, illustrated by Honor Ayres Laminated flexible cover, 384pp, Published by Precious Seed Publications, PO Box 573, Fareham, PO14 9FB, UK. Distributed in UK by John Ritchie Ltd., or direct from Precious Seed. Price £12.95, ISBN 978-1-871642-24-7 This is a book to support and encourage daily Bible reading and prayer. It is […]
Is that you Lord? Hearing the voice of the Lord
Paperback, 112pp. Published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North, Darlington, DL3 0PH. Price £6.95 ISBN 978-0-85234-652-5 In a world which places so much emphasis on the subjective, the professing church has largely succumbed to cultural pressures. In many areas of its activity it has elevated experience over scripture, while still claiming to submit to the authority […]
Happily Ever After? Avoiding the pains of divorce
Paperback, 64pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster HR6 8NZ, UK Price £4, ISBN 978-1-846250-96-5 In a frank and often hard-hitting book MARTIN HOLDT tackles an issue that is a symptom of the moral and spiritual decay of modern society. Early in the book he states, ‘Divorce is serious and sad. It grieves […]
Beyond Bars. Looking inside the inside story
Paperback, 140pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster HR6 8NZ, UK Price £7, ISBN 978-1-846250-94-1 GERARD CHRISPIN, director of DAYLIGHT Christian Prison Trust, writes a telling account of individuals whose lives have been changed by the saving grace of God. Different prisoners with different stories are presented as records of what God can […]
Angola Beloved
Paperback, 216pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly Street West, Port Colborne, ON, Canada L3K 6A6. Price £6.99 ISBN 978-1-897117-44-2 This is a welcome updated edition of a book first published in 1967. As a boy Ernest Wilson wanted to be a missionary in Africa and, at the age of 18, was exercised to […]
