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Live No Lies
This book reinterprets the ancient paradigm of the three enemies of the soul for the modern age.
Samuel Johns
7
 min read
June 20, 2022
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Prosperity? Seeking the True Gospel
The gospel is the church’s most precious gift to cherish, protect, and pass on. We must never stop checking what we believe and preach and then ask the question: Is this the gospel?
Samuel Johns
8
 min read
January 5, 2022
Book Reviews
Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton (1908)
Chesterton's ‘Orthodoxy’ is a treatise on the origins of pleasure. Where does joy stem from? What is the heartbeat of pleasure? What are its origins in our world?
Samuel Johns
9
 min read
July 15, 2021
Book Reviews
The Burnout Society: Survival of the fittest
Burnout represents the pathological consequence of voluntary self-exploitation.
Samuel Johns
11
 min read
September 2, 2022
Book Reviews
The Burnout Society: Why so tired?
Being tired is not the problem; the problem is that the kind of tiredness that our society brews is one of exhaustion.
Adrian Petrice
4
 min read
July 22, 2022
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The Burnout Society: scattered and bored
Han writes: "Multitasking is commonplace among wild animals. It is an attentive technique indispensable for survival in the wilderness. That is why animals are incapable of contemplative immersion.”
Adrian Petrice
4
 min read
January 12, 2022
Book Reviews
The Radical Disciple
“We have a double responsibility: maturity in Christ is the goal both for ourselves and our ministry to others.” John Stott
Rodica Rosior
8
 min read
April 22, 2021
Book Reviews
Theological Neuroethics
The brain is an interesting organ. Weighing only 1360 grams (2% of our body weight) it consumes 20-50% of the blood oxygen supply, and is the center of thought, consciousness, emotions and desires.
Kristi Kola
15
 min read
April 28, 2021
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The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
“If you want to experience the life of Jesus, you have to adopt the lifestyle of Jesus” John Mark Comer
Samuel Johns
12
 min read
March 19, 2021
Book Reviews
Don’t Waste Your Life
You belong to God: He made you and he bought you through the cross. That means your life is not your own. It is God’s, and this should form the basis for finding the meaning and purpose for your life.
Miriam Owen
15
 min read
March 2, 2020
Book Reviews
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
“The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” is an important work: a landmark describing the massive, shadowy forces that are driving much of the Digital Revolution in the West.
Jonathan Ebsworth
11
 min read
January 29, 2020
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Rethinking Life and Death
Singer interweaves a fabric of gripping narratives, dramatic individual fates, lawsuits, bits of history and medical ethics into a forceful imperative to rethink our convictions about life and death.
Iulia Ciubotariu
6
 min read
December 3, 2019
Book Reviews
The Universe Next Door
Whatever worldview I hold, I must remind myself that an attitude of humility as a working frame of reference is required. We can’t understand total reality. This book introduces us to this humility.
Iulia Ciubotariu
4
 min read
June 12, 2020
Book Reviews
Following Jesus
Bayer suggests that discipleship is fundamentally a matter of Christ’s exposure - and transformation - of our self-perception and God- perception.
Rodica Rosior
13
 min read
November 27, 2019
Book Reviews
The Life God Blesses
How do we learn to weather the storms of life that threaten the soul? How can we build beneath the waterline, to strengthen and shore up?
Samuel Johns
4
 min read
November 18, 2019
Book Reviews
Students of the Word
Stott is crystal clear; ‘the authority of Christ and the authority of scripture belong together’. How does Christ speak today? How does he govern his church? How does he exercise his authority?
Samuel Johns
7
 min read
September 26, 2019
Book Reviews
Rescuing Ambition
Ambition is part of what makes us human. The Creator of all is glorious and interested in glory. How do we rightly rescue ambition, and rightly direct it?
Adrian Petrice
20
 min read
July 26, 2019
Book Reviews
The Master & His Emissary
McGilchrist charts the human brain, along with a sweep of the making of the Western World, in a staggering 500-page treatise, which reads much like a thriller.
Samuel Johns
15
 min read
May 10, 2019
Book Reviews
A Little Manual for Knowing
Esther Meek suggests that our first knowledge as human beings is the knowledge of being loved. This first knowledge, she suggests, is paradigmatic for all of our knowing.
Samuel Johns
5
 min read
April 16, 2019
Book Reviews
Foolishness to the Greeks
This book treats the First World as a mission field, offering a unique perspective on the relationship between the gospel and current society by presenting an outsider's view of Western culture.
Samuel Johns
8
 min read
March 12, 2019
Book Reviews
Counterfeit Gods
Keller cuts through our dependence on the glittering false idols of money, sex and power to uncover the path towards trust in the real ultimate - God.
Miriam Owen
13
 min read
February 26, 2019
Book Reviews
Dethroning Mammon
How are we to understand the ways of the mammon? In dethroning mammon, Justin Welby gets to the crux of the argument. This is a fantastic book - an easy recommendation - and a worthy read for us all.
Samuel Johns
8
 min read
January 25, 2019
Book Reviews
Neither Poverty nor Riches
One of the most difficult questions facing Christians today is that of the proper attitude toward possessions. What should we do on behalf of the poor? What should we do with our own possessions?
Miriam Owen
9
 min read
January 25, 2019
Book Reviews
Living Life Backward
Ecclesiastes–often dry and acerbic in wit-introduces us to the heart of faith. As Gibson writes, 'We need someone to tell us to listen because we want to look and speak more than we want to listen'.
Samuel Johns
7
 min read
January 10, 2019

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