Library and Reviews

We have a selection of Christian books available for our congregation to borrow.

They are arranged as follows:

Books to help non-Christians 

Basic Teaching 

Creationism and Evolution 

Christian Life 

Church Growth 

Christian Biographies 

Other Religions 

Book Reviews

Latest additions to library:

The Pursuit of God by AW Tozer, 1948. Paperback 100 pages

Tozer was a pastor in Chicago when he wrote this classic. He had detected among Christians a thirst for a real relationship with God. He realised that it is not mere words which nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth. He saw the Bible as not an end in itself but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they might delight in His presence, and may taste and know God Himself in the centre of their hearts. The book describes his pursuit of this goal and practical guidance for us to follow.

I like this quote: 'The modern scientist has lost God amid the wonders of the world; we Christians are in real danger of losing God amid the wonders of His word'. Here is another quiet: 'A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God Himself is here awaiting our response to His presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon on its reality.'

Amy Carmichael – Beauty for Ashes. A biography by Iain Murray, 2015. Paperback 156 pages

In Isaiah chapter 61 we read the prophesied mission of Christ which includes the promise that He would 'give them beauty for ashes' (verse 3). This indicates that, through faith in Christ, our lives can be transformed from ashes to something beautiful. This message has been given to the Church and was well taken up by the subject of this new biography – the missionary and author Amy Carmichael. She was born in Northern Ireland in 1867, schooled in England and then spent over 50 years of her life, without returning home, serving mainly low caste girls and boys in South India. She died there in 1951.

This is (in the words of John MacArthur) 'a love story of the noblest kind. It is an enriching consideration of a woman's relentless love for her Saviour, her Bible, her friends, and most uniquely, her love for lost, suffering and desperate sinners – to whom she gave her life'. How appropriate is the subtitle of this inspiring biography because through her ministry many lives were transformed from ashes to beauty.