Listening to sermons
We’re recommending this booklet, ‘Listen Up!’ as a really good read for all of us this autumn. It’s a practical guide to listening to sermons. But, you may ask, why on earth does anyone need a guide on how to listen to sermons? Don’t we simply need to ‘be there’ and stay awake? The fact [...]
A Fresh Start!
Something is terribly wrong- with our world, with our relationships, with us. We all sense this at different times. But is there anything we can do about it? With all the honesty and humour for which he is famous, John Chapman tells in ‘A Fresh Start’ that God has done something about it. We read [...]
Know and Tell the Gospel
Here is our Book of the Term. A great read to equip us all to understand the heart of what we believe, and to be confident to explain it to others. There are lots of questions that quickly come to mind when we think about sharing our faith with others. Just what is ‘the gospel’ [...]
Cross Examined
Here’s a great book to read this Easter to help us think more about the crucifixion of Jesus. Was it a dreaful mistake, a tragic failure, irrelevant, an embarrassment, or what? The cross of Christ is, in fact, at the centre of God’s plan for men and women. For at the cross, God exposes our deepest [...]
Dig Deeper by Nigel Beynon and Andrew Sach
We are recommending this excellent book as an extremely helpful companion to our training course ‘Understanding and Communicating the Bible’ on Monday evenings. ‘Dig Deeper’ will equip you with a whole range of sixteen very practical tools to unearth the Bible’s treasure. As one reviewer says: ‘it will help you to see the Bible as [...]
God's New Community by Graham Beynon
This book describes New Testament patterns for today’s church. We’re reading it together in our midweek House Groups this autumn. Each chapter of the book looks at a different passage from the Bible and applies it to church life today. Click this link to read an extract from the introduction from the book. Buy a [...]



