Timely lessons from the Book of Exodus
Paperback, 96pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly Street West, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada L3K 6A6. Price £6.99, ISBN 1-897117-40-X. In the preface to this book the writer states his belief in the historical accuracy of events recorded in the book of Exodus and that this divine record ‘lays a solid foundation for understanding […]
Take the Challenge
George D. Campbell with Gaius C. Goff. Paperback, 152pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly Street West, Port Colborne, Canada, ON L3K 6A6. Price £6.99, ISBN 978-1897117-55-2. This is a reprint of a book first published in 1985 in which the primary author George Campbell records his experiences in the service of Christ as […]
Notes and Reflections on the Psalms
622 pp, hardback, Published by Chapter Two, Fountain House, Conduit Mews, London SE18 7AP, UK. Price £25.00, ISBN 1-85307-231-1. This book is part of the Facsimile Series of reprints of nineteenth-century writers and was first published by James Nisbet in 1869. Running to over 600 pages it forms a weighty volume but one that seeks […]
John Rogers – Sealed with blood
Paperback, 144pp, Day One Publishing, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ, UK. Price £7.00, ISBN 978-1-84625-084-2. This book is a further volume in the History Today series and charts the story of one of the first Protestant martyrs of Mary Tudor’s reign. It is clear that TIM SHENTON has researched his book well. He traces the […]
Even If … Even When …
Hardback, 16pp with 7 gatefold flaps. Published by Pupfish Ltd., Lathkill Old Farmhouse, Over Haddon, Bakewell, DE45 1JE, UK. Price £6.99, ISBN 1-904637-08-6 and 1-904637-07-8. These two delightfully illustrated children’s books are written for 3-6 year olds. They are written about a boy called George and what he discovers about God and the Bible. Even […]
Anne Boleyn
Paperback, 144pp, Day One Publishing, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ, UK. Price £7.00, ISBN 978-1-84625-083-5. It is difficult to imagine the life in medieval England that forms the background to this book. Equally, the problem of determining fact from fiction after a lapse of 500 years is immense, particularly when major forces were at work […]
What the Bible Teaches About Guidance
Paperback, 204pp. Published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North, Darlington, DL3 0PH. Price £6.95 ISBN 0-85234-611-3. In this book the author seeks to address the question ‘How can I know God’s will’? In the opening chapter he insists that traditional views need to be discarded, that it is wrong to think that God has a perfect […]
The Olive Plants
Raising Spiritual Children. Paperback, 122 pages, Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St West, Port Colborne, ON L3K 6A6, Canada. Available in UK from John Ritchie Ltd. Price £9.99. ISBN 978-1-897117-51-4. On cannot but admire WARREN HENDERSON for daring to tackle the difficult subject of bringing up children in the fear and admonition of […]
The Church, A Discipleship Manual for the Body of Christ
126 pages, Paperback. Published by Everyday Publications Inc., 310 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, Ontario, L3K 6A6, Canada. Available in UK from John Ritchie Ltd. Price £5.99. ISBN 978-0-888730-83-1. This book has been written ‘to encourage new and older believers alike to come to a fresh appreciation of the patterns established by the Lord for […]
Striving against Satan
Paperback, 126pp. Published by Bryntirion Press, Bryntirion, Bridgend, CF31 4DX, Wales, UK. Price £6.95, ISBN 1-85049-219-0. No believer can doubt the importance of this book. DR. BEEKE, president of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, states, ‘we must know our enemy … we must know how to withstand him, and what spiritual weapons to take up against […]
Oh Death Where is thy Sting?
Paperback, 122 pages. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St West, Port Colborne, ON, L3K 6A6, Canada. Available in UK from John Ritchie Ltd. Price £6.95. ISBN 978-1-897117-47-7. This is an interesting book which focuses upon what the writer in his Foreword describes as ‘the positive side of Christian death’. Through chapters entitled Resurrection, […]
Lost at Sea, Found in Heaven
The Arthur Taylor Story Paperback, 136 pages. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St West, Port Colborne, ON, L3K 6A6, Canada. Available in UK from John Ritchie Ltd. Price £7.95. ISBN 978 1 897117 23 1. It is always fascinating to read of the ways of God in the life of an individual and […]
Can we be good without God?
Paperback, 40pp. Published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North, Darlington, DL3 0PH. Price £1.50. ISBN 978-0- 85234-651-8. Most of the readers of this magazine should be familiar with JOHN BLANCHARD’s growing range of Christian apologetics that have rapidly established themselves as a strong defence of the faith as well as an excellent tool for evangelizing the […]
The Complete Gathered Gold
Hardback, 704pp. Published by Evangelical Press, Faverdale North Ind. Est. Darlington, DL3 0PH Price £24.95, ISBN 0-85234-644-1 Not since reading 1200 Notes, Quotes, and Anecdotes by A. Naismith can the present reviewer remember seeing any book quite like this one. Based upon previous compilations by the author, this new book brings together 16,000 quotes on […]
People in the Passion of Jesus
Paperback, 96pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ Price £5, ISBN 1-84625-061-3 Not since reading Andrew Borland’s book, Personalities at the Crucifixion, has the present reviewer read anything on the subject of people who were present at, or associated with, the crucifixion of the Lord. This book was developed from sermons […]
My book of Hobbies and God’s book, the Bible
Paperback, 288pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ Price £6, ISBN 1-84625-024-2 The substance of this book is a series of addresses that the author gave, over a number of years, at Trinity Road Chapel in South London. Following the example of the Lord Jesus, ‘who often taught the people by […]
Making the Right Impression
Paperback, 220pp. Published by Home Service, 48 Heaton Moor Road, Stockport, SK4 4NX, UK or www.homeservice. org Price £7; ISBN 0-95558-550-0 For someone with over twenty-five years teaching experience I felt it would be difficult to review this book objectively. There are so many questions that need to be answered by the proponents of home […]
Gowandale Adventure and other stories for boys
Paperback, 96pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ Price £5, ISBN 1-84625-070-5 ‘It is hard being a Christian, and trying to live for God among our friends. Mark is a normal boy who, like us, doesn’t always find it easy to understand and put into practice what God says in the […]
C. S. Lewis: Clarity and Confusion
Paperback, 144pp. Published by Day One Publishing, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ, UK Price £6, ISBN 1-84625-046-0 So, how far should we go in our admiration of C. S. Lewis? Andrew Wheeler has set out to write a balanced introduction to Lewis’ Christian beliefs. On the cover, Dr. Hadden Wilson neatly summarizes the book by […]
Abolition!
Newton, the ex-slave trader, and Wilberforce, the little liberator. Paperback, 107pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ, UK Price £5.00, ISBN 1-903087-99-2 For those of us living more than 200 years after most of the events dealt with in this book, it is difficult to imagine why the abolition of the […]
The Challenge of Revival
Paperback, 64pp. Published by Fairmeadow Books, 31 Fairmeadows, Cwmfelin, Maesteg CF34 9JL, UK. Price £4.50, ISBN 0 9523478 6 5. Paul Young is no stranger to the readers of Precious Seed as he has contributed many articles on a variety of subjects. In fact, this book has been worked from a series of lectures that […]
Romans Chapters 1-8
Paperback, 144pp. Published by Precious Seed Publications, PO Box 573, Fareham PO14 9FB, UK. Price £5.95, ISBN 978 1 871642 22 3. For nearly thirty years Albert Leckie conducted annual Bible Readings in the south-west Wales village of Trimsaran. These were held in August each year and the years 1981-84 were devoted to the study […]
Opening up Luke’s Gospel
Paperback, 224pp. Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster HR6 8NZ, UK. Price £8.00, ISBN 1 846250 30 9. As part of the ‘Opening up’ series, this book seeks to re-tell Luke’s gospel account, adding practical points of explanation and application. In keeping with the study guide genre, it includes issues for further study […]
Morning Meditations – For each Lord’s Day of the Year
Paperback, 136pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, Ontario, L3K 6A6, Canada. Price £5.95, ISBN 1 897117 43 4. ‘And they shall not appear before the Lord empty’, Deut. 16. 16. Here we are offered fifty-three meditations with the express wish that, when they break bread, the Lord’s people come […]
Day by Day – Paradise to the Promised Land
Paperback, 384pp. Published by Precious Seed Publications, PO Box 573, Fareham PO14 9FB, UK. Price £8.95, ISBN 978 1 871642 21 6. Paradise to the Promised Land, being the eleventh volume in the popular Day by Day series, seeks to encourage the daily reading of scripture by providing a passage and a meditation derived from […]
Cross Words
Paperback, 252pp. Published by Christian Focus Publications, Geanies House, Fearn, Ross-shire IV20 1TW, UK. Price £7.99, ISBN 1 84550 118 7 Cross Words is sub-titled ’The Biblical Doctrine of the Atonement’, the author indicating in the opening chapter that the object of the book is to examine ‘why it was necessary for God in Jesus […]
Apocalypse Facts and Fantasies
Paperback, 426pp. Published by Twoedge Sword Publications, PO Box 266, Waterlooville PO7 5ZT, UK. Available from John Ritchie Ltd., 40 Beansburn, Kilmarnock KA3 1RH, UK. Price £15.00, ISBN 1 90544707 8. As the title suggests, this book expounds truth (facts), and exposes error (fantasies), relative to the end times. The writer considers the many promises […]
The Shepherd’s Hut
Paperback, 156pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada, L3K 6A6. Price £8.95, ISBN 1-897117-20-5. While there are many books available on the interesting subject of the tabernacle, Maxwell gives his reasons for writing when he says, ‘this book will hopefully give a resumé of the pertinent truth and […]
The Miracles of the Messiah
Paperback, 166pp. Published by Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada, L3K 6A6. Price £7.50, ISBN 1-897117-39-6. Works emanating from assembly-based publishers of an Apologetics character are somewhat rare. For this reason alone, BRYAN SHELDON’s book is interesting. It is a work of some scholarship making reference to Jewish […]
Reach out for Him
Knowing the unknown God. Paperback, 36pp, Published by Day One Publications, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ, UK Price £1, or £8.50 for 10, ISBN 1-84625-018-7 GARY BENFOLD’s thirty-six page booklet is a substantial tool with which to evangelize the lost. Using the apostle Paul’s experience and preaching in Athens, the writer seeks to establish the […]
On-line Bible, Version 2.10
On-Line Bible Foundation, 12 Birkfield Place, Carluke, ML8 4PZ, Scotland or Timnathserah Inc, 11 Homewood Street, Winterbourne, Ontario, Canada This new version of the popular Bible software program, previously reviewed in the February 2005 issue of the magazine, is available in various versions but that reviewed here is the Classic Edition. It comes as a […]
My People
The History of those Christians Sometimes Called Plymouth Brethren. Paperback, 428pp. Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada, L3K 6A6. Price £16.99, ISBN 1-897117-28-0. The scope of this book is daunting. In four major sections plus four appendices ROBERT BAYLIS sets out to chronicle the growth and progress of […]
Hallowed be Thy Name
Paperback, 150pp. Published by Published by Gospel Folio Press, 304 Killaly St. West, Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada, L3K 6A6. Price £8.95, ISBN 1-897117-45-0. Not since reading the late ROBERT ANDERSON’s book, The Honour of His Name, has the present reviewer seen anything written on this important subject. As WARREN HENDERSON states in his Preface, ‘Our […]
Gofors & Grumps
Paperback, 176pp, Day One Publishing, Ryelands Road, Leominster, HR6 8NZ. Price £8, ISBN: 1-903087-97-8 This well-written and attractively illustrated book looks at twenty-six Bible characters, each being either a Gofor (good) or Grump (bad). Each story is written in a style which brings the characters to life. Extra activities and explanations of difficult words and […]
Catherine Mackenzie’s Books
Can brown eyes be made blue? Amy Carmichael ISBN: 1-84550-108 X Are all of the watches safe? Corrie Ten Boom ISBN: 1-84550-109-8 Could somebody pass the salt? Hudson Taylor ISBN: 1-84550-111-8 Does money grow on Trees? George Müller ISBN: 1-84550-110-1 Hardbacks, 24pp. Published by Christian Focus Publications, Geanies House, Fearn, Tain, Rossshire IV20 1TW, Scotland, […]
The Jesus Gospel
Paperback, 196pp. Published by Authentic Media, 9 Holdom Avenue, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK1 1QR, UK. Price £7.99, ISBN 1-85078-698-4. Many of us may not be aware of the rising appeal in evangelical circles of a different gospel. This ‘gospel’, which focuses upon the love of God, rejects the seriousness of sin and diminishes the importance […]
