We want to be a church who loves to read, and so to help us toward that end we are resurrecting our GRACE CHURCH “Book of the Month” Recommendation idea.

Each month we plan to highlight one book that we feel compliments and re-inforces the truths taught on Sunday mornings, and will benefit our souls and families to go deeper in believing, living out and representing God and his gospel to the world.  The books will be available to purchase on Sunday mornings – at a cracking price!

To kick us off, and to go alongside our new preaching series from the book of Daniel, we want to recommend:

Daniel (Reformed Expository Commentary) by Iain Duguid

Iain Duguid is an Old Testament scholar with a passion for the church and for the preaching of the gospel. A native of Great Britain, he initially trained as an Electrical Engineer and served as a missionary in Liberia, West Africa, before studying for the ministry. He completed a Ph.D. in Old Testament at Cambridge University, and subsequently planted a church on an inner-city housing estate in Oxford, England. He has taught Hebrew and Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi and at Westminster Seminary in California, before moving to his present position at Grove City College, in Grove City, Pennsylvania. While working at the seminary in California, he also planted and pastored a church in Fallbrook. He takes every possible opportunity to share his love for the Scriptures around the world, teaching regularly in Latvia as well as having taught in the Ukraine and in Canada.  He also currently pastors Christ Presbyterian Church in Grove City, PA.

Dr Duguid’s commentary on Daniel is the “must-read” commentary for our series. Duguid is a wonderful combination of top-class scholar and pastor, and this commentary is a rare blend of insightful exegesis and discerning application.  Full of good scholarship, with a devotional edge, it is very accessible, and will educate, edify and encourage any reader as the glories of Christ coming shining through Scripture texts that can otherwise appear obscure and irrelevant.

This commentary will be available on Sunday mornings for only £12!

We want to be a church who loves to read, and so to help us toward that end we have our GRACE CHURCH “Book of the Month” Recommendation.

Each month we highlight one book that we feel compliments and re-inforces the truths taught on Sunday mornings, and will serve our souls and families to go deeper in believing, living and representing God and his gospel to the world.  The books will be available to purchase on Sunday mornings – at a cracking price – from the book table or info point!

For the month of October, and to go alongside the early part of our “Ephesians” series, we’d like to recommend:

CHOSEN FOR LIFE

by Sam Storms

Dr. Sam Storms has spent 34 years in ministry as a pastor, professor and author.  He’s served at churches in Texas, Oklahoma & Missouri and was Associate professor of Theology at Wheaton College in Illinois. He has authored 16 books and founded Enjoying God Ministries in Kansas City.

Divine election is certainly one of the more profound — and controversial — doctrines in the Bible.

Does God elect people because they believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, or does God elect people in order that they will believe in Christ?

Much of the disagreement and controversy concerning this doctrine proceeds from a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means.

“Chosen for Life” is an in-depth look at the doctrine of divine election, and is well-reasoned and well-written, with its arguments anchored in the Scriptures.  It is a concise, clear, pastoral and practical explanation of election, and will leave you marvelling at the glorious grace of God in the gospel.

Available from the Info Point on Sunday Mornings for only £8.50!

Details of September’s Book of the Month here.

“I am one person in one place at one time. My experiences and perceptions are limited and colored by the environment in which I live. Therefore, it would be profoundly arrogant of me to think that I can grow in the knowledge of God through Scripture by myself.

Certainly the Holy Spirit is graciously given to all God’s children to enable us to comprehend and be conformed to the truths of the Bible. Nevertheless, one of the primary means of grace God uses in the process of our transformation is the universal-historical community of believers. Within that community, God graciously provides leaders of few and leaders of many to equip the saints for the work of ministry.

It is a humbling thing for me to read a book. Most books take at least several hours of combined time to process, and I have to forsake other distractions in order to focus and benefit from what I am reading. Most of all, I can’t talk back. I am forced to just listen, patiently follow and receive, to think another man’s thoughts after him.

One of the new desires placed into the heart of every believer is the desire to think God’s thoughts after him. Let’s pursue humility by receiving the thoughts of those who have led us and spoken the word of God to us in the most enduring of all earthly mediums: the book.”

– from www.monergismbooks.com (Readers Guide for the Christian Life)

We want to be a church who loves to read, and so to help us toward that end we want to introduce a new “tool” to serve us all — the GRACE CHURCH “Book of the Month” Recommendation.

Each month we plan on highlighting one book that we feel compliments and reenforces the truths taught on Sunday mornings, and will serve our souls and families to go deeper in believing, living and representing God and his gospel to the world.  The books will be available to purchase on Sunday mornings – at a cracking price – from the book table or info point!

For the month of September, and to go alongside our “WHY: church?” series of messages, we’d like to recommend:

WHY WE LOVE THE CHURCH

by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck

In this, their newest book together, authors Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck present the case for loving the local church.

“Why We Love the Church” paints a picture of the local church in all its biblical and real life guts, gaffes, and glory in an effort to edify local congregations and entice the disaffected back to the fold.

It provides a solid biblical mandate to love and be part of the body of Christ and counteract the “leave church” books that trumpet rebellion and individual felt needs.

Chapters cover the missiological, personal, historical and theological importance of the church and help prepare the reader for the increasing modern-day beating the church is taking at the hands of the “Church-is-lame Crowd”.

Author and pastor Sam Storms recommends the book when he writes:

[Why We Love the Church] is a penetrating critique of church-less Christianity and a theologically rigorous, thoroughly biblical, occasionally hilarious, but equally serious defence of the centrality of the church in God’s redemptive purpose.

Highly recommended!  Pick it up during September for only £7 a copy!