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Excerpt from Matthew for Everyone by Tom Wright
The Shaming of the Strong by Sarah Williams
A Cop for Christ by Mike DiSanza
Welcome to the new TLM or Torch Library Magazine!
Inside you will find all the new titles we have added to the Torch Library since March this year. They are listed by media and then by category with a short description to whet your appetite.
The categories are wide and varied from biographies and Christian fiction, through devotionals to commentaries.
"Seek and you shall find" (Matthew 7:7). For those of you who have the Scripture Text Calendar in either braille or giant print, you may remember this verse from Saturday 29th July. I was pondering what it was that God was promising if we will but seek. Many of you, of course will know that the answer is God Himself. What an incomparable treasure. Coming to this realisation made me want to search Him out right there and then and because I love books this is the first place I turn to. First to my Bible and then to a commentary.
The commentary I chose was Matthew for Everyone by Tom Wright. Because Tom really does write for "everyone" I've included the excerpt in full. If you've never read a commentary before, or you've read several on Matthew's gospel, I think you will be very pleasantly surprised at his down to earth and yet in-depth approach. If commentaries are not included in your usual reading diet, let me encourage you to give them a go with this fresh approach. In fact whatever your usual reading preferences why not try something new with a choice from this new magazine?
Seeking God in a new way or place can be exciting, refreshing and life changing. Have you ever been to the Torch Holiday and Retreat Centre at Hurstpierpoint? In November this year the Library are running a Book Retreat week. Come and join us as we seek God through the rich resource of literature. If you'd like more details do give us a call on the usual Library Admin number: 01858 438266
The Torch Library is a fabulous resource which we want to make available to as many visually impaired people as possible. We have produced a new brochure entitled, Read Anything Good lately? which promotes our Leisure Reading such as Biographies & Christian Fiction as well as highlighting our new DAISY Library. If you can place this leaflet somewhere where people who are registered blind or partially sighted might benefit from our library – for example, your local library or a residential home or an eye clinic – then please request a copy. You, our borrowers, are the best ambassadors for the Library. Enthusiasm is contagious! Let's pass it on and enable others to enjoy a good read.
Wishing all our borrowers a really "good read".
7 "Ask and it will be given to you! Search and you will find! Knock and the door will be opened for you! 8 Everyone who asks receives; everyone who searches finds; everyone who knocks will have the door opened. 9 Don't you see? Supposing your son asks you for bread – which of you is going to give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, are you going to give him a serpent? 11 Well then: if you know how to give good gifts to your children, evil as you are, how much more will your father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
12 "So whatever you want people to do to you, do just that to them. Yes; this is what the law and the prophets are all about."
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I hate fundraising. Many people are good at it; many actually enjoy it; but I can't stand it. I hate asking people for things anyway, and asking for money is the worst of all. As a result, I'm not very good at it. I understand that in some countries it's expected that clergy, and people in similar jobs, should cheerfully ask people to give to good causes. In my world, it always seems difficult and embarrassing.
So when I read a passage like this I find it very hard to believe, and I have to remind myself of what it's based on. Does Jesus really mean that God is going to answer every request we make? That he is like a father longing to give his children what they want and need? Can we truly take him up on such remarkably open-ended promises?
I think sometimes our failure to believe such promises, and to act on them, doesn't come so much from a failure of * faith in God but from a natural human reluctance, like my dislike of fundraising. Maybe I was taught when I was little not to go on asking for things all the time. It's too long ago to remember. But I suspect many people have that instinctive reluctance to ask for things; if pressed, they might say it was selfish, or that God had better things to do with his time than to provide whatever we suddenly happen to want.
Well, that may or may not be true, but it would be a shame to tone down one of the most sparkling and generous sets of promises anywhere in the Bible. Maybe it isn't "selfish" to ask for things. Maybe it's just the natural thing that children are supposed to do with parents. Maybe our refusal to do so actually makes God sad or puzzled: why aren't his children telling him how it is for them, what they'd like him to do for them? Of course, generosity of spirit is easily abused, and we all know the caricatures of people asking God for wildly inappropriate things in order simply to indulge themselves ("O Lord," pleads the song, "Won't you buy me – a Mercedes-Benz?")! The letter of James (4:3) has some stern warnings about asking for the wrong sort of things, and any full discussion of prayer needs to take this into account. But, for most of us, the problem is not that we are too eager to ask for the wrong things. The problem is that we are not nearly eager enough to ask for the right things.
And "the right things" doesn't simply mean fine moral qualities (though if you dare to pray for holiness, humility or other dangerous things, God may just give them to you). It means the things we need day by day, which God is just as concerned about as we are. If he is a father, let's treat him as a father, not a bureaucrat or dictator who wouldn't want to be bothered with our trivial and irrelevant concerns. It's up to him to decide if he's too busy for us. The fact that there may be a war going on in one country, a famine somewhere else, earthquakes, tragic accidents, murder and pillage all over the place, and that he is grieving over all of them – this might be a problem for a high-ranking authority at the United Nations, but it is no problem whatever for our loving father. When he says he's still got time, space and love to spare for us, we should take him at his word.
Of course, as we become mature children we will increasingly share his concerns for his suffering and sorrowing world. We will want to pray for it more than for ourselves. But, within the * kingdom-prayer that Jesus taught us, as well as praying for God's will to be done on earth, we were taught to pray for what we ourselves need here and now. So: what's stopping us?
We may well say that we've tried it and it didn't work. Well, prayer remains a mystery. Sometimes when God seems to answer "no" we find it puzzling. And people have always found it strange that, if God is supremely wise, powerful and loving, he shouldn't simply do for everybody everything that they could possibly want. But, as Archbishop William Temple famously said, "When I pray, coincidences happen; when I stop praying, the coincidences stop happening." Some of the wisest thinkers of today's church have cautiously concluded that, as God's kingdom comes, it isn't God's will to bring it all at once. We couldn't bear it if he did. God is working like an artist with difficult material; and prayer is the way some of that material co-operates with the artist instead of resisting him. How that is so we shall never fully understand until we see God face to face. That it is so is one of the most basic Christian insights.
So: treat God as a father, and let him know how things are with you! Ask, search and knock and see what happens! Expect some surprises on the way, but don't expect that God will ever let you down. This, indeed, is the underlying message of the whole Sermon on the Mount, which is now moving towards its closing paragraphs.
Verse 12, in fact, sums up the message so far, the message which began at 5:17-20. Jesus hasn't come to abolish, but to fulfil, the law and the prophets. How? By teaching Israel who God really is, and what copying him, trusting him, loving and obeying him are really like. And, when it comes to behaviour in the world, and with other people, the whole law can be put into one sentence: do to others what you'd like them to do to you.
Jesus was neither the first nor the last great moral teacher to offer this so-called "Golden Rule", and it sums up a good deal of his teaching. What distinguishes him from the many others who have said similar things is that underneath the moral lesson is the love of the heavenly father. What should distinguish his followers, but alas frequently doesn't, is that, knowing this love, they should find themselves able to obey this rule, and the other rules that follow from it, gladly and freely. They should then discover that they are able to reflect God's love and light into the world.
[This book is new into braille, catalogue number: B2632. Already available on cassette, catalogue number: C2194.]
reviewed by James Brookman
If I had started off this review by telling you what The Shaming of the Strong was about then many of you would have switched off by now. However please can I ask you to persevere beyond the book's description?
Sarah Williams discovers during a routine pre-natal scan that her baby is massively deformed and will probably die as it is born. A termina-tion is almost taken for granted by the doctors but Sarah and her husband Paul decide to proceed to term. This book essentially describes the spiritual, physical and emotional rollercoaster that is their family's life over the next 9 months.
Thank you for still paying attention because this book is for you even if you haven't got children and have no plans to give birth to the things. I certainly would have given the book a wide berth, even though I do have children, because my experiences are so remote from those of the Williams family. However I had to read it as part of my job to proofread audio books and I'm jolly glad I did because it has had a profound effect on me for the good.
The book is relatively short (5˝ hours in audio, 2 volumes in braille) and launches straight into the narrative without any dedication, introduction or foreword. It is both interesting and compelling (my wife couldn't put it down until she'd finished it 1˝ hours later). The audio is read by Margaret Allen. She reads it beautifully and sympathetically and even manages an impressive rendition of the baby's condition, thanataphoric dysplasia. As I read the book I wanted to know what Sarah and the family looked like but for once the visually impaired are at no disadvantage because there aren't any photos in the book, and even the physical condition of the baby is only mentioned in outline terms.
The back cover of the book, like me, drops in the fact that Sarah is the daughter of Jennifer Rees Larcombe. Whilst I'm sure Sarah would have resisted name-dropping, her mother does feature heavily in the book (where she is called ‘Wren', a nickname derived from ‘Jenny Wren') and if that encourages more people to read the book then nothing is lost.
I would strongly encourage you to access this book which will touch you on many levels. Whether Sarah is battling against grossly insensitive political correctness, being dumbfounded at the way her 5 year old daughter routinely sees angels, or unwrapping the title of the book (which is taken from 1 Corinthians 1:27 – "God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong") there is always something to challenge, marvel at, and be in awe of.
[This book is new into cassette, catalogue number: C2439. Coming soon in braille,]
reviewed by James Brookman
I've never seen NYPD Blue on the television but I suspect that drama about life in New York's Police Department comes nowhere near the excitement recorded in A Cop for Christ, Mike DiSanza's experience of the real thing.
Mike was born in 1946 into a large Catholic Italian family and grew up in the Bronx which is a very socially deprived area of New York City. Despite Mike's regular attendance at church the teaching he received there with its emphasis on condemnation and guilt only served to deepen his feelings of hopelessness, and pretty soon he was on the well worn path towards violence and crime. Fortunately when he was 13 his fatalistic journey was arrested by the intervention of a community police officer who encouraged him to join a boxing club instead of fighting on the streets. A few weeks later one of his friends was killed in a massive street brawl and many others at the scene were sent to prison for up to 10 years.
Moving on a few years Mike got married, got educated at night school and joined the NYPD. At this stage life ought to have been getting easier but instead things started to go downhill. Most of his shifts at work were during the night and the sustained exposure to the lowest of low-life on his beat began to take its toll, and the old feelings of hopelessness resurfaced. Mike had to work most of the public holidays and soon even his marriage was in difficulty. However at the nadir of his life the Lord intervened (yet again). Mike collapsed on duty and an elderly black woman who stopped to help him said, "Jesus loves you" – when he eventually came round he saw that he had fallen directly in front of a fluorescent cross in a church window.
One thing led to another and soon both Mike and his wife became Christians (the story of which is worth reading on its own). Mike had the gift of evangelism (a few days after his conversion he borrowed a police loud-hailer and went preaching on the streets only to have to apologise to the hungry throng a few minutes later because he only knew of one verse in the Bible!). The sensible thing to do would be to leave the NYPD and become a full time church worker, especially as his colleagues continued to be murdered on a regular basis. However the Lord had other plans for Mike and he stayed working on his nocturnal beats being used in miraculous ways and ‘cheating death' on several occasions. Mike also came to see that other police officers needed God as much as the criminals and he went on to co-found ‘Cops for Christ' a sort of Christian Union for policemen and women which now operates throughout the US and beyond.
Torch produces A Cop for Christ (incidentally I don't think the evangelistic pun in the title was intended by our American cousins) in audio cassette, DAISY and shortly braille. The audio is read by Geoffrey Child using his British accent; although inevitably some of the dialogue really needs the benefit of a native New Yorker, Geoffrey reads in an engaging and light style. Unfortunately DAISY listeners will miss out on the Editor's mischievous location of a cassette break (as Mike is in the process of falling backwards down a deep hole in the road you hear "Aaaaaahhh ... This is the end of Cassette 4 side 1") but at least you will still be treated to Geoffrey's toy car doing an impersonation of a police siren!
I would definitely recommend this book and encourage you to take a journey with Mike DiSanza who, whether he is posing for a photo in his NYPD blue uniform with tourists in Times Square or wrestling with a violent junkie at 3 o'clock in the morning, is always a "cop for Christ".
[This book is new into DAISY, catalogue number: D2256. Already available on cassette, catalogue number: C2256. Coming soon in braille.]
By Michael Wilcock. Number of Volumes 8. Catalogue Number B2203. Michael Wilcock takes us through each Psalm, long or short, familiar or neglected, revealing in the process the craft and logic of their arrangement.
By Warren W Wiersbe. Number of Volumes 2. Catalogue Number B2478. In this survey of Revelation, Warren Wiersbe clearly illustrates that prophecy is practical. The Apostle John wrote this New Testament book to encourage suffering saints in every era of church history to start living in the light of Christ's return.
By Tom Wright. Number of Volumes 4. Catalogue Number B2630. Tom Wright's eye-opening comments on the gospel and what it might mean for us are combined, passage by passage, with his new translation of the Bible text.
By Bill White. Number of Volumes 2. Catalogue Number B2367. The story of its discovery, its claims to authenticity and the ministry of The Garden Tomb Association. His conclusion goes beyond the authenticity of sites to the reality of the Resurrection and the availability of the risen Christ now.
By Hilary Faith Jones. Number of Volumes 1. Catalogue Number B2672. These stories are so vividly written that they enable us to identify with the Bible characters, and to recognise in their experiences our own feelings of joy or sorrow, of doubt or faith, of gratitude or penitence.
By Bill Hybels. Number of Volumes 3. Catalogue Number B2239. Almost Everybody Looks for God. That is only the beginning of the matter. Which God? Defined by whom? Revealed where? Confirmed by how many? The God you're looking for revealed himself, his identity is not a mystery, & concern for you is not kept secret.
By Jim Bishop. Number of Volumes 6. Catalogue Number B2131. A remarkable hour by hour account of the crucifixion.
By Mark Stibbe. Number of Volumes 2. Catalogue Number B2621. Many Christians have a discipleship of the cross but lack personal experience of the Holy Spirit. "The future of Biblical Christianity lies in recapturing this divine alliance."
By Eddie Gibbs & Brian Draper. Number of Volumes 2. Catalogue Number B2628. We are invited to travel in the company of Jesus and his disciples. In thirty short readings with accompanying poetry see how Jesus deals with the people he meets.
By Christopher Ash. Number of Volumes 2. Catalogue Number B2684. Why does a good God allow innocent suffering? Why does a sovereign God let disease and evil run rampant? These are not questions asked from the armchair, or from the academic's desk, but from the anguish of the sickbed and the frustration of a wheelchair.
By John Ortberg. Number of Volumes 4. Catalogue Number B2144. This is not a book for normal people to learn how to handle difficult people ... there is no such thing. This is a book about how imperfect people can pursue community with other imperfect people.
By Christine Aroney-Sine. Number of Volumes 3. Catalogue Number B2530. YWAM's ANASTASIS. The story of Australian doctor, Christine Aroney, working on a floating hospital that travels the world. Prone to seasickness, "Why me, Lord?" she questions.
By Tony Anthony & Angela Little. Number of Volumes 3. Catalogue Number B2671. Three times World Kung Fu Champion, he was self-assured, powerful and at the pinnacle of his art. All might have been lost, but for the visits of a stranger.
By Elaine Brown. Number of Volumes 3. Catalogue Number B2307. Elaine had written books about those who had overcome tragedy before her own cancer was diagnosed. She tells how she discovered the difference between happiness and joy.
By Nicky Cruz & Jamie Buckingham. Number of Volumes 4. Catalogue Number B2686. Nicky tells his own story of gang warfare in the streets of a big city and of his dramatic conversion.
By Keith Danby. Number of Volumes 3. Catalogue Number B2637. From Afghanistan to the Amazon and Bombay to Birmingham we are taken on a rollercoaster ride by people working for the Gospel.
By Violet Liddle & Mary Batchelor. Number of Volumes 2. Catalogue Number B2683. In the daily lives of Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw, during visits from Lady Astor, Dwight Eisenhower and other public figures - Violet Liddle was there.
By Stephen Lungu & Anne Coomes. Number of Volumes 3. Catalogue Number B2249. Remarkable account of a black African recruited by the Communists to become a "Freedom Fighter", only to discover Christ.
By Joni Eareckson Tada. Number of Volumes 6. Catalogue Number B2238. Joni has discovered a God who is so magnificent that no circumstance, no matter how terrible, can separate her, or you, from his fierce, tender, and enduring love.
By Maisie Thomas. Number of Volumes 2. Catalogue Number B2197. A 79 year old lady recounts experiences of God's blessings from 1926-1997.
By Colin Whittaker. Number of Volumes 2. Catalogue Number B2620. In this collection of true love stories you will meet extraordinary couples who faced ordinary struggles. What was the secret of their success? Includes: Billy & Ruth Graham, Smith & Polly Wigglesworth, Charles & Sarah Wesley, William & Catherine Booth.
By Irene Howat. Number of Volumes 1. (Ages 11-15). Catalogue Number B2229. Augustine, John Knox, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Hugh Latimer, Jan Hus, Ulrich Zwingli, William Tyndale, Thomas Chalmers, Lord Shaftesbury. Would you like to make a difference? These ten boys grew up to do just that.
By Patricia M St John. Number of Volumes 4. (Ages 8-11). Catalogue Number B1881. The story of a blind child in North Africa.
By Patricia M St John. Number of Volumes 2. (Ages 8-11). Catalogue Number B1882 u. The exciting story about two children, Ruth and her brother Philip. It tells of how they met Terry, a gipsy boy, and of the serious accident which Terry has. We also read of Ruth and Philip finding out about God, and how He helped them.
By Karen Kingsbury. Number of Volumes 6. Catalogue Number B2681. ONE TUESDAY MORNING is a love story like none you have ever read, commemorating the tragedy and heroism of September 11 and portraying the far-reaching power of God's faithfulness and a good man's love.
By Janette Oke. Number of Volumes 3. Catalogue Number B2536. A young Indian girl must make a choice between the old ways of her people, the man she loves, and the white man's religion.
By Michael Bentley. Number of Cassettes 5. Catalogue Number C2409. Bentley shows that these prophecies are still relevant for God's people today. The Lord is still in control over the nations and the lives of individuals and one day he will balance the books as all will have to give an account of themselves to him.
By Andrew Whitman. Number of Cassettes 6. Catalogue Number C2362. A concise summary and lively application of each passage, with pointed questions to probe more deeply into personal, church-centred and global issues.
By Frederick Catherwood. Number of Cassettes 5. Catalogue Number C2457. DAVID, king of ancient Israel, was a military genius - ranking with Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar & Napoleon Bonaparte. His name is also bound up with the promise of a Messiah. As a politician, Sir Fred Catherwood explores the relevance of his life.
By Lance Pierson. Number of Cassettes 12. Catalogue Number C2401. Lance Pierson reconstructs the life and times of Timothy and shows how God uses not just the obvious leaders but ordinary people.
By Tom Houston. Number of Cassettes 5. Catalogue Number C2137. This book looks at the birth of the first New Testament Church from the perspective of those who were there at the start - either helping or hindering the cause of the gospel.
By Vaughan Roberts. Number of Cassettes 5. Catalogue Number C2399. Presents the kingdom of God as a unifying theme for the whole Bible.
By Alister E McGrath. Number of Cassettes 9. Catalogue Number C2343. The King James Bible was a landmark in the history of the English Language, and an inspiration to poets, dramatists, artists and politicians. The culture of the English-speaking world would have been immeasurably impoverished without it.
By Hilary Faith Jones. Number of Cassettes 2. Catalogue Number C2450. These stories are so vividly written that they enable us to identify with the Bible characters, and to recognise in their experiences our own feelings of joy or sorrow, of doubt or faith, of gratitude or penitence.
By Alan MacDonald. Number of Cassettes 1. (Ages 5-7). Catalogue Number C2456. Ten stories about Jesus for younger children, retold from the point of view of people who met him.
By Simon Austen. Number of Cassettes 4. Catalogue Number C2449. The modern secular viewpoint leaves us as insignificant walking monkeys who got a lucky evolutionary break. NOTHING WE DO MATTERS. If you are investigating the Christian faith the question "Why should God bother with me?" is one that needs an answer.
By John Blanchard. Number of Cassettes 10. Catalogue Number C2269. Does God exist? How can he sit by through pain, suffering and injustice? Hasn't science explained him away? With intelligently constructed, logical arguments, John Blanchard provides thought-provoking, scholarly accessible responses.
By David Wilkinson. Number of Cassettes 5. Catalogue Number C2303. Does the universe need a creator? This book examines the question of the possible origins of the universe from the viewpoints of both science and religion. It argues that a scientific explanation for the beginning does not destroy belief in God.
By Billy Graham. Number of Cassettes 4. Catalogue Number C2391. BILLY GRAHAM - explores the Biblical emphasis of what angels are and the crucial role they play in our lives.
By Peter G Floyd. Number of Cassettes 3. Catalogue Number C2407. Daily Devotional readings for every day of the month.
By John Ortberg. Number of Cassettes 4. Catalogue Number C2484. The Bible is filled with examples of an intimate God, interested in connecting with ordinary people. Yet somehow, intimacy with God eludes us. Caught up in the mainstream of life, we know we're missing something vital. But how do we attain it?
By Beverley Shepherd & Jeannette Barwick. Number of Cassettes 4. Catalogue Number C2444. This reflective book looks at the love relationship you can have with God. Learn how to communicate with Him, understand how we are being prepared as His bride, and be assured that God uses even those 'desert times' to develop an intimacy with Him.
By Ruth Graham & Stacy Mattingly. Number of Cassettes 8. Catalogue Number C2422. When life's rosy dreams dissolve into difficult realities that break our hearts, God shows that he specialises in restoration.
By Christopher Idle (comp). Number of Cassettes 2. Catalogue Number C2458. A selection of hymns to encourage and inspire, each accompanied by a story about the writer.
By David Beer. Number of Cassettes 4. Catalogue Number C2383. A biblical, balanced, and proven example of what it means to be a purpose-driven church in a British context.
By Ronald Dunn. Number of Cassettes 4. Catalogue Number C2320. Are you tired of living on a spiritual rollercoaster? Using the book of Joshua as his basis, Ronald Dunn shows us that we must not only cross the Red Sea out of Egypt, but cross the Jordan into Canaan.
By Michael Wakely. Number of Cassettes 6. Catalogue Number C2398. Biblical and practical guidance on choosing a generous lifestyle.
By Geoff Baker. Number of Cassettes 5. Catalogue Number C2289. When did you last spend real time with your friends? In the busy round of work, church and family there is rarely much time left for friends. And yet we need them - not only to help us learn and grow, but just because that's how we're made.
By John R W Stott. Number of Cassettes 1. Catalogue Number C2448. The author writes as a pastor to his congregation, outlining the Biblical principles of stewardship and a Christian's responsibility for systematic giving to the full support of the church that maintains a living ministry in the power of the Holy Spirit.
By Rob Parsons. Number of Cassettes 2. Catalogue Number C2241. An inspirational book of hope and support for all parents who feel that they have somehow lost their children, that things have gone wrong and that they are to blame.
By Michael Green. Number of Cassettes 2. Catalogue Number C2283. A hugely enjoyable, jargon-free book. It will encourage Christians to seek the values of God's kingdom in every aspect of their daily lives, and it is a "must" for their non-churchgoing friends.
By Michael Stafford. Number of Cassettes 1. Catalogue Number C2469. A brief compilation of facts about the Jehovah Witness cult and what they believe. It includes a section contrasting their beliefs with the truths of Scripture.
By Maizie Smyth. Number of Cassettes 6. Catalogue Number C2447. Maizie made her choice to spend her life serving God for twenty-four years under the blue skies of Congo. She has known His protection and provision in the most unusual ways and often just in the nick of time.
By (Brother) Andrew & Al Janssen. Number of Cassettes 10. Catalogue Number C2429. The sequel to God's Smuggler. For the last thirty-five years Brother Andrew has been serving the Christian Church in the Middle East as well as witnessing to Jews and Muslims.
By David W Ellis. Number of Cassettes 6. Catalogue Number C2357. David Ellis and his family, missionaries in Indonesia, encountered the horrors of political violence and turmoil. In the many terrifying events that befell them, they found out that if they held fast to God there was nothing else to fear.
By Dick Anderson. Number of Cassettes 6. Catalogue Number C2390. Dick and his wife, Joan, were pioneering missionaries in Turkana, Kenya, spending many years in the front line of world evangelisation.
By Joel Edwards. Number of Cassettes 5. Catalogue Number C2346. How could a black Pentecostal find himself at the heart of British evangelicalism? Joel Edwards tells the story of his pilgrimage from the close-knit black church community in Britain to his role as General Director of the Evangelical Alliance.
By John Robinson & Brenda Sloggett. Number of Cassettes 4. Catalogue Number C2178. John was in abusive homes for most of his childhood. Yet God had plans for John. Today he runs the Eden bus ministry: youth buses which travel Manchester with the gospel.
By Sarah Williams. Number of Cassettes 4. Catalogue Number C2439. SARAH WILLIAMS was going to be a mum again, and the whole family was excited . But the hospital scan changed everything. The child would not survive birth. "Do I follow the ever pressing advice of the medical profession? Or do I follow my heart?"
By Veronica Heley. Number of Cassettes 9. Catalogue Number C2423. At the age of four, "Minty" was exiled from Eden Hall on the wings of a scandal. Twenty years later, she has returned to see her dying father. But her hopes of a warm family welcome are shattered, and she is rejected once again.
By Thomas Locke. Number of Cassettes 7. Catalogue Number C2323. The Roman Empire, corrupt, lawless, crippled by rumours and intrigue. As factions battle for earthly and spiritual power, one man's fortune is forever changed. An exciting and dramatic read.
By Janette Oke. Number of Cassettes 6. Catalogue Number C2434. A change that is tearing at Virginia's heart is the gradual but steady physical decline in Grandma Marty and Grandpa Clark.
By Jack Cavanaugh. Number of Cassettes 11. Catalogue Number C2338. In hottest pursuit is God, whom Jesse has struggled to trust since a long-ago factory fire robbed him of his father - and his childlike faith.
By Jack Cavanaugh. Number of Cassettes 10. Catalogue Number C2341. Easy-going Travis & his sister, Paige, an impassioned artist, are swept away by causes of the day - he, unwillingly, to Vietnam; she, of her own choosing, to demonstrations on college campuses.
By Janette Oke. Number of Cassettes 6. Catalogue Number C2433. Belinda Davies is restless. Her life as a nurse seems dull and routine. When she meets an elderly woman who needs nursing care, Belinda jumps at the invitation to go to Boston. It was even more than she dreamed. Why then did she feel so empty inside?
By Doris Elaine Fell. Number of Cassettes 8. Catalogue Number C2214. CIA agent Drew Gregory is haunted by his past. By memories of a ruthless assassin he has not stopped. And by thoughts of what might have been.
By Janette Oke & T Davis Bunn. Number of Cassettes 6. Catalogue Number C2417. The bittersweet reunion of the Robichaud family and the Harrows in the land of the Acadians has brought two mothers and two daughters full circle. They rekindle those early bonds, experiencing the restoration of "the years that the locust hath eaten."
By Janette Oke & T Davis Bunn. Number of Cassettes 6. Catalogue Number C2418. While Anne comfortably settles into British life, Nicole once again searches the far horizon. Despite the raging War of Independence, she sets sail for the American colonies to manage her uncle's landholdings.
By Janette Oke & T Davis Bunn. Number of Cassettes 7. Catalogue Number C2411. The settlers of Acadia were either French or English, and though their villages might be but a stone's throw apart, most go an entire lifetime without speaking to someone from the other side. And then the chance encounter in a meadow of wild flowers...
By Kathy Lee. Number of Cassettes 3. (Ages 11-15). Catalogue Number C2441. The first in a fantastic trilogy of adventure stories set at the time of the early church. Bryn and his brother are taken captive following the Boudiccan Revolt.
By Peter & Fiona Horrobin. Number of Cassettes 4. Catalogue Number C2445. The true story of Harris, a black Labrador with character, and how his adventures and humorous exploits have become modern-day parables providing important insights into life.
By J John. Number of Disks 1. Catalogue Number D2158. Can we really expect an ancient list of do's and don'ts to apply to life in the 21st century? And aren't there too many don'ts? J. John believes that God's commands represent the best compass for a society that is lost in a thick moral fog.
By Simon Austen. Number of Disks 1. Catalogue Number D2449. The modern secular viewpoint leaves us as insignificant walking monkeys who got a lucky evolutionary break. NOTHING WE DO MATTERS. If you are investigating the Christian faith the question "Why should God bother with me?" is one that needs an answer.
By John Ortberg. Number of Disks 1. Catalogue Number D2484. The Bible is filled with examples of an intimate God, interested in connecting with ordinary people. Yet somehow, intimacy with God eludes us. Caught up in the mainstream of life, we know we're missing something vital. But how do we attain it?
By John Ortberg. Number of Disks 1. Catalogue Number D2185. This is not a book for normal people to learn how to handle difficult people ... there is no such thing. This is a book about how imperfect people can pursue community with other imperfect people.
By John R W Stott. Number of Disks 1. Catalogue Number D2448. The author writes as a pastor to his congregation, outlining the Biblical principles of stewardship and a Christian's responsibility for systematic giving to the full support of the church that maintains a living ministry in the power of the Holy Spirit.
By Jim Cymbala & Dean Merrill. Number of Disks 1. Catalogue Number D2301. The story of what happened to Brooklyn Tabernacle, a broken-down church in one of America's meanest neighbourhoods points the way to new spiritual vitality in the church and in your own life.
By Maizie Smyth. Number of Disks 1. Catalogue Number D2447. Maizie made her choice to spend her life serving God for twenty-four years under the blue skies of Congo. She has known His protection and provision in the most unusual ways and often just in the nick of time.
By Carol Lee Anderson. Number of Disks 1. Catalogue Number D2270. Honest, intriguing and sometimes humorous, this is a fascinating story of missionary life in the jungles of New Guinea with the primitive Folopa tribes people.
By Mike DiSanza & Liz Hinds. Number of Disks 1. Catalogue Number D2256. The story of a tough childhood among the gangs of New York through gritty years with the NYPD and a ministry taking the love of Jesus to people who know life only as a struggle for survival.
By Ruth N B McGavin. Number of Disks 1. Catalogue Number D2290. HARRY BRASH BONSALL - His daughter tells how, pursuing a vision from the shores of Canada to pre-war Britain, Henry pioneered Christian training centres throughout England, in preparation for the day of Revival.
By Jan Greenough. Number of Disks 1. Catalogue Number D2284. ALFRED BOSSHARDT: ST. JOHN PERRY: MANORAM MISSIONARIES -: Three remarkable true stories of faith on the front lines.
By James Hudson Taylor III. Number of Disks 1. Catalogue Number D2310. The dramatic account of how God plots the co-ordinates of the Taylor family from Wesley's England to China leaves us marvelling.
By Fred Lemon & Gladys Knowlton. Number of Disks 1. Catalogue Number D364. A confirmed criminal, on the eve of attempting to break out of Dartmoor, unexpectedly broke out spiritually, and found this freedom far greater than that of the open moor.
By Karen Kingsbury. Number of Disks 1. Catalogue Number D2427. ONE TUESDAY MORNING is a love story like none you have ever read, commemorating the tragedy and heroism of September 11 and portraying the far-reaching power of God's faithfulness and a good man's love.
By Karen Kingsbury. Number of Disks 1. Catalogue Number D2426. While the rest of us watched in horror that terrible Tuesday morning as the Twin Towers collapsed, we eventually got on with our lives. Not so for many of the people in Manhattan - especially for hundreds of firefighters and their families.
By Michael Hinton. Number of Volumes 1. Catalogue Number G2154. The 100-Minute Bible picks out the essential elements of the Bible from Genesis through to the Revelation of John using universal language.
By Warren W Wiersbe. Number of Volumes 2. Catalogue Number G2140. God is looking for people who will make a difference in the difficult places of life. Nehemiah was that kind of person. He was a layman called by God to give Jerusalem a new beginning. In spite of opposition, Nehemiah saw the holy city restored.
By Jill Briscoe. Number of Volumes 1. Catalogue Number G2052. "This image, of being on the wrong side of the door, has sown within me a desire to share some of my soul's discoveries," explains Jill Briscoe.