My Big Story Bible takes the adventure of reading a children's Bible to a new level. As you'd expect from Tom Wright, the narrative bursts with lively storytelling and a deep love for the original scriptures, while the vibrant illustrations on every page will delight young readers and help them to imaginatively understand the key events of the Bible.
Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies In Jesus and the Powers Tom Wright and Michael F. Bird join forces to address the pressing question: How can Christians engage with the turbulent politics of our times while remaining true to the teaching and example of Jesus?
Bible puzzles are a great way to pass time while learning scripture—and here’s a collection of 99 word searches sure to satisfy. With clues drawn from the breadth of scripture, these themed puzzles are sure to expand your knowledge of the Good Book.
Here’s a practical guide of short prayer starters that will help you pray confidently during difficult times. From illness and relationship issues to struggles with self-esteem and daily life stresses, dozens of topics are covered. Each section opens with a short devotional thought and applicable scripture.
The bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses forty poems from across the centuries that express the universal experience of loss and reflects on them in order to draw out the comfort, understanding and hope they offer.
These draw together everyday events and encounters, landscape, journeys, poetry, stories, memory and a sense of the sacred, and fuses them to create richly satisfying portraits of the familiar that at the same time opens a doorway in to a new and enchanted world.
This is a spiritual diary of that journey, comprising reflections, prayer poems and evocative images from the road and poetry which Stephen Cottrell has written for many years. Arranged in four sections, each with seven paired reflections and poems, the shape of the book echoes the rhythm of walking and is an intimate and honest account of the profound effect of the age-old tradition of going on pilgrimage.
In a series of fifty beautifully crafted reflections, with characteristic wit, Mark Oakley traverses the landscape of the Christian year, with its oases of celebration, its desert stretches of emptiness, its days of abundance and seasons of lament, and its affirmation of the ordinary and the everyday.
From the preface by C. H. Spurgeon: 'I commenced these daily portions when I was wading in the surf of controversy. I know the roll of the billows, and the rush of the winds. Never were the promises of Jehovah so precious to me as at this hour.'
Malcolm Guite knows exactly how to use the sonnet form to powerful effect. These pieces have thr economy and pungency of all god sonnets and offer deep resources for prayer and meditation.
Malcolm Guite's eagerly awaited second poetry collection 'The Singing Bowl' takes is name from the breathtakingly beautiful opening poem, a sonnet which connects poetry and prayer.
Historian and Iona Community member Rosemary Power tells the story of the small Hebridean island of Iona and its remarkable spiritual influence over fifteen centuries.
These striking and memorable poems are contemporary reworkings of an ancient collection of poetic texts, the Psalms. The Psalms are noted as much for their raw honesty as for their beauty and depth. No human experience or emotion is considered off-limits and the writers rage at God for life's incomprehensible cruelty as freely as they exult in life's blessings.
A companion volume to Sounding the Seasons, this book of sonnets focuses on many passages in the gospels with the aim of enriching worship and reflection for leaders and congregations alike.