Books
Books that provide insight into today's Church
Heavenly Man
Author: Paul Hattherway
ISBN: 9781854245977
This is the remarkable story of Christian brother Yun, who is a member of the Chinese house Church movement. It reads like a new part to the book of Acts. It is just one of many books on how God is building His church today.
The God Who Is There
Author: D A Carson
ISBN: 978-0801013720
An introduction to the essential truths of the God of bible that every Christian should know. Written as a guide to these truths for a person in the western world we know today. Not a systematic theology or a bible survey, it unpacks the storyline of God's revelation to man.
The Gosplel According to Jesus
Author: John MacArthur
ISBN: 978-0-310-28729-2
In a Christian world where the meaning of the word evangelical has been obscured by many imposters, John MacArthur's classic work on the gospel speaks loud and clear. A biblical truth claim by Jesus, who demands to be both Lord and saviour to all who believe.
The Jesus I Never Knew
Author: Philip Yancey
ISBN: 978-0310219231
Like all Philip Yancey books this is easy to read, but the view of Jesus he gives us both revealing and challenging. In his teaching, preaching, miracles, death and resurrection the Jesus challenges to follow him. A portrait of a complex Jesus who is brilliant, creative, challenging, fearless, compassionate and ultimately satisfying.
The Prodigal God
Author: Timothy Keller
ISBN: 978 0 340 97998 3
Like an extended bible study this book is aptly subtitled "Rediscovering the heart of the Christian faith." As you might guess it takes the parable of the prodigal son for its text. If for you this is a favourite then be prepared to be challenged and if its not then this reading may just change your mind.
Vintage Jesus
Author: Mark Driscol and Gerry Breshears
ISBN: 978-1-58134-975-7
Written with an understanding of modern culture, this book delivers a biblically faithful explanation of the theology of the Jesus. Every chapter has a section that give answers to common questions.
What's So Amazing About Grace?
Author: Philip Yancey
ISBN: 9780310233251
The Grace of God is in many ways the key to success in the Christian life. This easy to read book is one of the best on this subject.
Where is God When it Hurts?
Author: Philip Yancey
ISBN: 978-0310214373
For many this is the stumbling block in peoples faith. At times such the terminal illness of a loved one it the question of evil in God's world is difficult to understand. Philip Yancey deals with the issue of pain and suffering from in way that both makes faith reasonable and challenges those that would say that pain shows that either there is no God or He is not a good God.
Books on masculine spirituality
Why men hate going to Church?
Author: David Murrow
ISBN: 0-7852-6038-2
This book addresses why there are so few men in church. Have you ever thought why is it that there is no gender gap in Islam, Hinduism, Judaism or the Eastern Orthodox Church? By an examination of the positive values in the masculine spirit it reveals shortcomings in the Church today.
Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
Author: John Eldredge
ISBN: 9780785287964
Another bestselling book and quite deservedly so. In our modern world we have lost that sense of what God created when he made man and woman. This is full of insights into what it means to be a man in today's world.
For the more serious reader
3 Crucal Queations about Spritual Warfare
Author: Clinton Arnold
ISBN: 987-0-8010-5784-7
A book that combines readability with a biblical worldview to give an understanding of how this topic should be understood in the light of our much changed culture.
A primer on Postmodernism
Author: Stanley Grenz
ISBN: 9780802808646
The classic introduction to postmodernism. An exposition on the evolution of a new world view. Includes his interpretations of key thinkers such as Foucault and Derrida. A guide to the philosophical issues and their place in history. Not lightweight reading but it defines what the emerging Church is reacting to.
Capturing the Pagan Mind
Author: Peter Jones
ISBN: 978-0805425895
This book explores and exposes the perverse and crazy trajectory the modern world is taking by exploring the apostle Paul's view of the Roman empire. It explores the implications arising from the globalisation of our pagan culture.
Christian Beliefs: 20 Basics Every Christian Should Know
Author: Wayne Grudem
ISBN: 978-1844744862
In a world where few Christians know or can explain their faith, here is a biblical resource that does just that. In 20 brief chapters the basic doctrines of the faith from a one of the foremost bible scholars of our day..
Coutering the Claims of Evangelical Feminism
Author: Wayne Grudem
ISBN: 1-59052-518-3
A biblical response to the questions surrounding the role of women in church. This hot topic remains one of the issues still contested by evangelicals (ie those who believe in biblical inerrancy).
The Truth War
Author: John MacArthur
ISBN: 978-0785288954
In an age when people regard absolute truth claims as offensive and when all truths are equally valid, John MacArthur provides us with a robust defence of biblical truth.
The Emerging Church
Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church
Author: Don Carson
ISBN: 978-0-310-25947-3
A penetrating analysis by a renowned theologian and author of books on postmodernism. He picks up the strengths and weaknesses in the emerging Church, and his reviews of "A Generous Orthodoxy" by Brian McLaren and "The Lost Message of Jesus" by Steve Chalk finds faults in their theology.
Confessions of a Reformission Rev.
Author: Mark Driscol
ISBN: 978-0-310-27016-4
Primarily a book for pastors this is the story of planting and growth of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, one of the USA's fastest growing Churches in one of the USA's most secularised citie's. It's a blow by blow account starting with a Church plant 1996 ending with 4000+ attending in 2004. Mark discusses in an open and frank way the hard lessons he learned while trying to remain faithful to the Gospel.
Gospel Truth Pagan Lies, can you tell the diffrence.
Author: Peter Jones
ISBN: 1-57921-208-5
This little book was written to help people understand the difference between the spirituality of the Secular world and that of the Gospel. As the secular world seeks a natural explanation to all things it falls into the category of Pagan, and seeing that this is a new form of an old spirituality we can see where the battle lines lie.
Radical Reformission
Author: Mark Driscol
ISBN: 0-310-25659-3
This is Mark's account of his part in the emergent movement, that none the less led him to a radical reformed path for a missional lifestyle in the postmodern world. While others chose not only to be in the emerging culture but also of it, Mark strives to attain a balance of both orthodoxy and orthopraxy by continuing reformation.
The Courage to be Prostestant
Author: David Wells
ISBN: 978-1-84474-278-3
This is book is the culmination of David Wells work on the protestant church in our secular society. In it he describes movements like those in the church who adopted marketing techniques or secular world-views (emerging/emergent). His analysis while penetrating keeps both feet firmly in the biblical world-view..
The God who is there/ Escape From Reason/ He is there and He is not silent
Author: Frances A. Schaeffer
ISBN: 9780891075615
An evangelical theologian and a leading apologist who grappled with existential thought, the demise of absolutes and the rise of relative truth claims 11 years before before it was first called postmodern. Three books in one, that analyse the sorrow and pain at the heart of postmodern culture.
Why we're not Emergent (by two guys who should be)
Author: Kevin Deyoung and Ted Kluck
ISBN: 978-0-8024-5834-6
This is a rebellion against the rebellion. This gives a theological and street level perspectives of doing Church in our postmodern culture while holding to the propositional truths about Jesus and the ultimate authority of Scripture. They argue that it is better not to be emergent.
Life style
Homosexuality and the Politics of truth
Author: Jefery Satinover MD
ISBN: 0-8010-5625-X
A comprehensive and exacting treatment of this politically charged subject. The book gives a clear and practical understanding from a medical point of view of one of the most contentious issues of our culture.
Hooked: New Science on How Casual Sex Is Affecting Our Children
Author: Joe S. McIlhaney, Jr., Freda McKissic Bush
ISBN: 978-0802450609
A book that shows how casual sex releases hormones that change the brain making it harder to bond with someone in the future while the same hormones produce strong bonds and deeper sexual pleasure in married couples. Evidence of what the bible calls one flesh.
Youre Teaching My Child What?
Author: Dr. Miriam Grossman
ISBN: 978-1596985544
Miriam Grossman rips back the curtain on sex education today, exposing a sordid truth. Instead of teaching our children the facts of life, sex educators are lying to them, ignoring medical fact in favour of politicized, and dangerous, propaganda that could ruin your child's life forever.
Appologetics
Atheism Remix
Author: Albert Mohler
ISBN: 978-1-4335-0499-0
A book that gives an overview of what is now called the new Atheism. While the fall of the Berlin wall may have marked the beginning of the end for one form of atheism, secularisation of the intellectual elite and much of Western Europe represents the rise of this new form of Atheism.
Does God Believe in Atheists?
Author: John Blanchard
ISBN: 9780852344606
This remarkable book traces the development of atheistic and agnostic thinking from it roots up to the present day. It pinpoints the roles of key thinkers and how each one shaped modern thinking. It explores the many forms of atheism. It is a veritable encyclopaedia on the subject, yet through John Blanchard's remarkable talent as a communicator it is remarkably readable.
God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design is it Anyway?
Author: John Lennox
ISBN: 978-0745955490
This book is in response to Stephen Hawking's book "The Grannd Design" which claims that science has banished God. Claims that the laws of physics themselves brought the Universe into being, rather than God are refuted in this swift and forthright reply.
God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?
Author: John Lennox
ISBN: 978-0745953717
An excellent response to Richard Dawkins and his fellow new atheists that claim that science has buried God. A book that deals comprehensively with both the philosophical and scientific claims. An intellectual read requiring some knowledge of science and mathematics.
Gunning for God: Why the New Atheists are Missing the Target: A Critique of the New Atheism
Author: John Lennox
ISBN: 978-0745953229
In a move that see John taking the new atheists at their word. He shows how inconsistent their thinking is and by studying works, he often uses their own arguments against them. Once again John's unrelenting logical analysis cuts through their muddled thinking to show up many fallacies and faulty conclusions.
Mere Christianity
Author: C.S.Lewis
ISBN: 978-0006280545
Both the book and the man are as relevant today as when it was conceived as a series of BBC Radio talks in wartime Britain. C S Lewis' signature classic that echoes his own journey from atheist to a biblical Christian. A classic argument to a post Christian Britain for the Christian faith.
Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air
Author: Francis J Beckworth and Gregory Koukl
ISBN: 9780801058066
A critique of moral relativism in the tradition of C S Lewsis and Fracis Schaeffer. It offers not only a critical evaluation of the implications of relative morality, but also some practical ways to refute it.
TACTICS: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
Author: Gregory Koukl
ISBN: 978-0310282921
A guide to being an effective ambassador for Christ. How to manoeuvre comfortably and graciously as you share your faith with others by adopting an engaging style even when people raise objections.
The Dawkins Letters
Author: David Robertson
ISBN: 978-1-84550-261-4
A Christian response, to "The God Delusion" by Ricard Dawkins , in the form of 10 letters . Each latter addresses a chapter in the book by addressing the atheist myths behind each one by promoting the biblical wordview. An enjoyable read and a good introduction to the debate.
The Reason For God
Author: Timothy Keller
ISBN: 978 -0-340-97947-1
This book takes on the big questions like the presence of suffering, the existance of hell and the problem of sin to come up with an intellectually credible case for there being a God. It offers a calm reason to in the face of secular bigotry.
The Universe Next Door
Author: James Sire
ISBN: 978-1844744206
An understanding of worldviews makes us aware of our own, and enables us to discern other people's worldview. The Universe Next Door gives a clear, concise and readable introduction to the subject. It covers 9 worldviews from Christian theistic to the postmodern. In doing so it provides an effective basis for rational thinking about cross cultural issues,
Who Made God?
Author: Ravi Zacharias (Editor), Norman L. Geisler (Editor
ISBN: 978-0310247104
A resource for finding answers to the difficult questions of faith. Over 100 nswers to the most asked question about the Christian faith from the experts. Covers a range of topics from questions about God, the bible, Jesus, science and creation.
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Apologetics 315 A website that provides a daily online resource helping to equip Christian's to defend the faith(apologetics). Run by Brian Auten who is the director of Reasonable Faith Belfast and founder of Apologetics 315.
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The Universe Next Door
Author: James Sire
ISBN: 978-1844744206
An understanding of worldviews makes us aware of our own, and enables us to discern other people's worldview. The Universe Next Door gives a clear, concise and readable introduction to the subject. It covers 9 worldviews from Christian theistic to the postmodern. In doing so it provides an effective basis for rational thinking about cross cultural issues,