Summer Reading 2010
Spend some time with God and recharge your spiritual batteries with one or more of our recommendations! Visit the CCL Bookshop (formerly Wesley Owen) on Quarry Street for Guildford’s best selection of Christian books, or go online.
Challenged by our Nehemiah series and want to go further?
Mark Wallace recommends A Passion for Faithfulness by J.I. Packer (Crossway, ISBN 978-1-58134-246-8, £11.50) - an excellent, thorough and readable book to help you.
Want to read the Bible regularly but don’t know where to start?
Dig Deeper! Tools to unlock the Bible’s treasure by Nigel Beynon and Andrew Sach (IVP, ISBN 978-1844744312, £8.99) is full of handy hints to help you kick-start your Bible reading.
Or pick up some Bible-reading notes such as the ever-popular Daily Bread www.scriptureunion.org.uk/dailybread
Want ‘a serious but energising read’?
Michael Hodson recommends Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places by Eugene Peterson (the man behind The Message) (Hodder & Stoughton, ISBN 978-0340954881, £8.99) – ‘a book of spiritual theology that takes away any sentimentality and helps us “get honest” with God’.
Want a Christian response to Richard Dawkins?
The Dawkins Delusion by Alister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath (SPCK, ISBN 978-0281059270, £7.99) is a short but excellent book from a scientist, theologian and academic who has debated with Dawkins.
Christianity magazine is highly recommended, and a subscription brings with it access to its complete online archive. ‘A wide selection of articles - inspiring and thoughtful’ Jeremy Whittaker. www.christianitymagazine.co.uk
For Christian analysis of current events, visit the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity www.licc.org.uk – their twice-weekly emails are a real life-line.
To keep up-to-date with persecuted Christians and how you can help, visit Christian Solidarity Worldwide www.csw.org.uk and join their mailing list.
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