Book Of The Term: ‘Note To Self’

We try to always have great books on the bookstall all year round.  But each term we single out one book which we’d encourage everyone to check out. The book of the term for Spring 2013 is Note To Self by Joe Thorn. This is a fantastic little book.  Really encouraging.  Really helpful and practical in [...]

The Innkeeper

Imagine if Jesus, as a grown man, returned to Bethlehem to visit the stable where He was born.  What would He say to the innkeeper?  How do the cross and the resurrection make sense of all the terrible suffering in this world? John Piper wrote this poem a number of years ago to help us [...]

Free Audiobook: What Is The Mission Of The Church?

Books at Emmanuel are always cheap.  But this one’s free! What Is The Mission Of The Church? by Kevin de Young and Greg Gilbert was one of the Holiday Reads we were plugging this summer.  And now, only during November 2012, you can download the audiobook for free at ChristianAudio.com It’s a great book wrestling with [...]

Summer Family Activity Book

This Sunday is the first of our summer Sundays when things are a little different.  7 weeks, 7 different preachers, 3 of which have never preached at Emmanuel before.  So it’s all very exciting. Meanwhile, kids are breaking up from school and parents are scratching their heads about what to do… Cue the 2012 Summer [...]

Exploring More Of The Trinity

Last week I blogged about ‘Drawing The Trinity’.  If all those diagrams got you thinking and you wanted to explore more about the Trinity, I thought it would be a good idea to point you in the direction of a few good books and some talks. ‘Delighting In The Trinity’ by Tim Chester This is [...]

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 [...]