BOOK BREIFS

  • THE HISTORIC AND THE INWARD CHRIST

    THE HISTORIC AND THE INWARD CHRIST Author EDWARD GRUBB Publisher GYAN BOOKS PVT. LTD INDIA Here is a facsimile publication from Delhi India making an older out of print book available at a reasonable cost.  Those who have some links with Quakers might recognise the author,  a prominent and perceptive member of the Quaker movement…

  • THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT

                                            THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT Author WILLIAM LAW Publisher GIDEON HOUSE ISBN 1943133543 Most will not have heard of William Law.  He wrote in a time when the church manifestly lacked the power of the Holy Spirit and was stuck in a rut of religious ritual and a striving after and…

  • The Momentous Event

                                              THE MOMENTOUS EVENT Author W.J.GRIER Publisher BANNER OF TRUTH TRUST ISBN 0-85151-020-5 The first edition of this little volume was published in 1945.  It is a slightly edited version of a number of articles the author wrote for a Northern Irish evangelical periodical.  It is short, sharp and to the…

  • THE FACE OF WATER

                                            THE FACE OF WATER Author SARAH RUDEN Publisher PANTHEON BOOKS 978-0-307-90856-8 Subtitled, “A translator on the beauty and meaning in the Bible,” is helpfully explanatory to the subject matter found in this book.  I already wrote a book brief on another book by Sarah Ruden.  She is obviously very able in latin and Greek as…

  • The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God

                            THE DIFFICULT DOCTRINE OF THE LOVE OF GOD Author D.A.CARSON Publisher IVP ISBN 976-1844744275 The title is thought provoking and the contents profoundly instructive and necessary in these days when there is so much confusion as to God’s nature as love.  One hundred years ago a British Theologian P.T.Forsyth wrote much on God’s HOLY love.…

  • The Church, Why Bother_

                                         THE CHURCH.  WHY BOTHER? Author JEFFREY D. JOHNSON Publisher SOLID GROUND CHRISTIAN BOOKS ISBN 978 1 59925 319 0 There is a subtitle to this book.  ‘The Nature, Purpose and Functions of the Local Church.’  As with many books penned in the USA, indeed elsewhere, there are perfectly valid, helpful and edifying elements…

ARTICLES

  • What is This Baptism 3

    WHAT IS THIS BAPTISM? An article in three parts examining the true nature of the baptism in the Holy Spirit PART THREE THE HOLY SPIRIT The Holy Spirit is God.  The baptism promised is the one which brings man into God.  Because there is power in God, then power must be included in the baptism.…

  • What is this Baptism 2

    WHAT IS THIS BAPTISM? An article in three parts examining the Baptism in the Holy Spirit PART TWO INITIATION A second truth concerning the baptism in the Holy Spirit was mentioned earlier, it is the fact that by the baptism an initiation takes place.  It is of interest to note that in the days of…

  • What is This Baptism

                                            WHAT IS THIS BAPTISM?                                                 PART ONE                                       An article in three parts exploring the true nature of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit PART ONE   What is this Baptism?  More than any of us can understand,…

  • God and Human Sexuality. Part 4

    DO NOT TAMPER OR TEMPORISE WITH THE WORD OF GOD   Jesus had a running battle with the Scripture interpreters of His day. They were the Scribes and the Pharisees. That battle hotted up through the years of his ministry and his final speech he roundly denounced them. He cries “Woe” against them seven times…

  • God and Human Sexuality. Part 3

    REJECTION OF GOD AND THE CORRUPTION OF MAN   The letter Paul wrote to the Christians in Rome has two central themes. The first, it is about God. The second, it is about man, his departure from fellowship with God and his decline into states of life that are little better than that of the…

  • God and Human Sexuality. Part 2

    WHERE DO WE BEGIN?   A significant difference exists between the nations of the West and those of the East and of Africa. The former have slid down the slippery slope of sexual folly more slowly, perhaps in the period of three generations whereas the more conservative African and Asian nations have suddenly been presented…

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