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From the Editor’s Desk – What is the Gospel? by Mandy Groce

By Catherine Mackenzie · Comments (0)
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

What Is the Gospel? by Mandy Groce Following on from their previous two successes, Our Home is Like a Little Church and What is the Church? the writing and illustrating team at Sojourn church, in Louisville Kentucky have come up with What is the Gospel?. This is an important area for children to understand – that God has a message of Good News for them. This message is that though we sin and have disobeyed God we can have life and joy as part of God’s kingdom. This book explains what the gospel is – not just parts of it. Through the themes of God’s Kingdom, God’s Cross and God’s Grace you can explain to your child the important message of salvation – the same one that is taught at home and at church. This book makes a neat little trilogy of faith for your family.

Where to Buy:
What is the Gospel?, Our Home is Like a Little Church, and What is the Church? are all available at any good Christian bookstore. If you don’t have a Christian bookstore near you, you may want to consider purchasing a copy from one of the online book retailers listed below:

What Is the Gospel? by Mandy Groce Our Home Is Like a Little Church by Lindsey Blair & Bobby Gilles What is the Church? by Mandy Groce & Bill Bell
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From the Editor’s Desk – Words About God by Nicholas Choy

By Catherine Mackenzie · Comments (0)
Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Words About God by Nicholas ChoyI love it when you see a child’s vocabulary expanding. They hear a word in conversation and before you know it they are turning it out at every opportunity. I think we sometimes underestimate children and their ability to express themselves. We patronise them by thinking that they won’t understand certain words – and as a result we can often omit to teach them some key spiritual lessons and doctrinal facts. But here’s a fact – children learn and they learn well and if we teach them well they will understand. This is something that Nicholas Choy the author of Words About God has grasped through teaching his own young child the truths about God. He has realised that children need to and indeed can worship God – and that they can be helped in this by good teaching. With twenty-eight different words that describe God’s wonderful nature and character your child can be exposed to a variety of amazing insights to the person of God. There are some encouraging commendations for this book, one of which mentions how rare it is that you get a children’s book that is both inspiring in content and pleasing in design – but that Words about God is such a book! Pick it up yourself and you will see that each page ‘brilliantly illustrates great Christian truths about God.’ Justin K Hardin, University of Oxford.

Where to Buy:
Word’s About God: to help you worship Him is available at any good Christian bookstore. If you don’t have a Christian bookstore near you, you may want to consider purchasing it from one of the online book retailers, including those listed below:

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From the Editor’s Desk – How God Changes People by Carine Mackenzie

By Catherine Mackenzie · Comments (0)
Wednesday, September 19th, 2012

How God Changes People by Carine MackenzieThis is one of those books that I think we should have published long ago – we just didn’t have the idea until Carine Mackenzie came up with it. Connie Dever, wife of Mark Dever at Capitol Hill Baptists in Washington reviewed it and came back to me saying, ‘Love, love, love this book.’ Others too have reviewed it very favourably. Perhaps you’re a bit surprised at this reaction? As human beings we often shy away from change – we like the status quo, and having our lives just the way we want them, just the way they are. But with God change is important, it’s necessary – not for him as he is perfect, holy, the same yesterday today and forever – but for sinful human beings change or conversion is what we need -  to be reconciled to God. Children need this too – because a human being’s need of change is there right from the moment of conception. Our default position is sin – and it is only the saving and regenerating power of God that can bring this change into being.

In this book we are introduced to several New Testament characters whose lives were changed and souls converted through meeting Jesus. Thieves and murderers as well as a fisherman and a business woman – are amongst the people who turned from their sin and were accepted by God the Father. The righteousness of Christ was given to them and their sin placed on Christ instead. This book not only tells children about those who were converted in the Bible – it shows them how they too need to come to accept the free offer of salvation offered to them in God’s Word.

Where to Buy:
How God Changes People is available at any good Christian bookstore. If you don’t have a Christian bookstore near you, you may want to consider purchasing it from one of the online book retailers, including those listed below:

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From the Editor’s Desk – Mary of Orange: At the Mercy of Kings

By Catherine Mackenzie · Comments (0)
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Mary of Orange: At the Mercy of the Kings by Linda FinlaysonMary of Orange: At the Mercy of Kings is another fantastic book from Linda Finlayson. She is an author who can certainly dig out a story. She finds characters of the Christian church that have been discarded or forgotten over the decades and reintroduces them with fresh life and vigour. Before Linda’s manuscript arrived I hadn’t read anything about Mary of Orange and by the time I’d reached the last chapter I was wondering why I’d never read anything about her. She is an example of a true Christian woman, a godly wife and between her and her husband they changed the future of their nation and the world in such a dramatic way. If you’ve ever heard of the Bill of Rights in America – that particular document owes a lot to the Glorious Revolution of William and Mary and their original constitutional document that limited the power of the sovereign and gave the people a real democracy and freedom of speech.

Mary of Orange: At the Mercy of Kings is currently available in the UK and will be releasing in the US July 2012.

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