by Susan Barnes | 2 Jun 2022 | Book Reviews>Life Changing Books
Garden City : work, rest and the art of being human by John Mark Comer discusses work and rest from a biblical perspective. Comer writes in a slightly humourous manner where he includes little asides to the reader. So while much of the material in the early part of...
by Susan Barnes | 15 Apr 2021 | Book Reviews>Life Changing Books
The front cover of Jesus and the Gospel Women understates the amazing insights that Joanne Collicutt McGrath shares in this book. As Christians reading the Gospel accounts it’s difficult for us to put aside our cultural bias. Yet Joanne can do this because she comes...
by Susan Barnes | 9 Jan 2020 | Book Reviews>Life Changing Books
I found, Irresistible : Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World by Andy Stanley, insightful, thought-provoking and encouraging. Early in the book, I found some of his comments exaggerated, but by the end of the book, I understood why he wrote as he did....
by Susan Barnes | 12 Aug 2012 | Book Reviews>Life Changing Books
John Dickson is a historian and a Christian apologist who has written many books. He is also an Anglican minister and popular speaker, and in case you hadn’t notice, I’m a big fan! (I have previously reviewed many of his other books here, here, here and here). In this...
by Susan Barnes | 5 May 2012 | Book Reviews>Life Changing Books
John Dickson is a historian and a Christian apologist. In his book, If I were God I’d make myself clearer(Matthias Media, 2002), he aims to address the issue – in a world where there are a multitude of beliefs, how do we find the truth about God, if there is one?...
by Susan Barnes | 19 Mar 2011 | Book Reviews>Life Changing Books
J.I. Packer wrote Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God (Inter-Varsity) in 1961 to address the questions, if God is sovereign why bother to evangelise? Or does man’s free choice mean God is not sovereign? Though much time has past the questions still get raised...
by Susan Barnes | 12 Jan 2011 | Book Reviews>Life Changing Books
The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight (Zondervan, 2008) is easy to read and explains how to understand the Bible. McKnight is well qualified to write such a book from both his studies and his experience. McKnight believes we do the Bible a disservice when we treat it...
by Susan Barnes | 20 Jan 2010 | Book Reviews>Life Changing Books
John Townsend is the well known author of Boundaries and therefore brings a wealth of experience to this topic. Where is God? : finding His presence, purpose, and power in difficult times (Thomas Nelson, 2009) is written for people who are currently in crisis and...
