Books

The 2019 Lent Book is a stirring meditation on God’s humility.

In one of the most moving stories of Christian literature, Augustine describes himself as sitting in turmoil, knowing that his current way of life had become untenable and was making him ill, because he could find no resting place for his heart and mind. As he sat sobbing in the garden, he heard the voice of children, as though playing a game in another part of the garden. The children’s voices were crying, “Pick up and read it, pick up and read it.” Looking around Augustine saw an open copy of scripture and he picked it up and read St Paul’s Letter to the Romans offering a freedom from conflicting desires, through encounter with the living God.

It is not only Augustine who encountered the merciful humility of God. But only God could penetrate Augustine’s armor. As we follow this book through Lent and through the Biblical narrative, what begins to emerge is that God’s merciful humility is the source of life.

In this history of the early Christian Church, Professor Bruce divides the complex story into three sections. The first, The Dawn of Christianity, deals with the Church from its infancy to the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. The second section, The Growing Day, continues the story up to the accession of Constantine in A.D. 313 and the Church’s consequent official status. Light in the West, the final part, is about Christianity in Rome and its spread to the British Isles after the barbarian invasion. The picture that emerges is of the Church as an unquenchable spiritual force organized for tribulation, whose spiritual resources are never more unlimited than in times of seeming disaster. A wealth of quotations from Jewish and classical sources, combined with F.F. Bruce’s straightforward style, make this book a valuable contribution to the study of the history of the Church.​

Trajectories in the New Testament theology is a collection of essays dealing with current trends in New Testament Theology and some preliminary thoughts. There are detailed discussions on varied hermeneutical issues namely post colonial cultural reconstruction and subaltern cultural reading.

In this creative retelling of the events surrounding the crucifixion of Jesus, a Roman soldier assigned to work at Golgotha tells us his eye-witness account of Jesus’s death, burial and resurrection, including how he stood guard over the grave until the stone was rolled away. Told as only masterful storyteller and author Max Lucado can, this is a perfect book that will inspire readers at Easter and throughout the year. Beautiful, original art makes this a great gift for all ages

Paul’s testimony is a matter of life and death. Piper invites you into his relationship with Paul in the hope that you will know life, forever.