We Brake For Joy!

WE BRAKE FOR JOY!
By Patsy Clairmont, Barbara Johnson, Marilyn Meberg, Luci Swindoll, Sheila Walsh and Thelma Wells
Zondervan. 279 pages
ISBN 0 310 22042 4

This book is written for women and has 90 short devotions 'to help you live out your faith with verve and style' broken up into six different sections. All the authors contribute to each section.

The devotions are short stories illustrating a Bible verse and finishing with a prayer. They offer a spirited view of tackling the challenges of life, taking an honest look at what we face as women every day.

Although I found some of the illustrations too light in content, with six different authors you do find something to mull over and think about from God's Word. And indeed, some are very thought-provoking. You do need to give the book a chance, perhaps on a journey or on holiday when you can relax and think through what the authors are saying! Some indeed did make me smile, and some really appreciate God's goodness to us all.

Faith Richards

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Main Articles

• Underground gospel
  The Underground Youth Lounge is a small, self-contained, shoebox-type room in the basement of Highfields Free Church in Cardiff
• Defining evangelicals
  A challenge to the fuzziness of what is meant by evangelical
• Crossing the desert
  The conclusion of an interview with Jonathan Aitken - the former Conservative minister who was sent to prison (Part 2)
• Can Christians forgive?
  Sue Sainsbury asks radical questions about forgiving each other in daily life
• The church prayer meeting
  Jonathan Fletcher explains how he encourages interest in the prayer meeting at his church
• Flying to Christ
  The wartime story of Joe Pilkington in a Liberator bomber
• After freedom
  A report on the church in Leipzig in Germany since the Berlin wall came down
• Monthly column on the arts
  David Porter describes the good, the bad and the ugly at Tate Modern
• Monthly column for youth leaders: Game on
  Games for summer to help your group have a good time and build relationships
• Monthly column on hymns and songs
  Discovering and appreciating hidden treasure in holiday church hymns
• 2,000 years of Jewish evangelism
  John Ross of Christian Witness to Israel recounts two millennia of evangelism

Other articles

• Multiplying Churches - An extract on church planting in South Africa
• Chicken Run - Film review
• The Music of St Paul's Cathedral - CD review
• Preaching Christ from the Old Testament
• And Some . . . Evangelists
• Churchgoing for Amateurs
• Proverbs - Everyday Wisdom for Everyone
• Who Are The Puritans And What Do They Teach?
• Gideon - Power from Weakness
• A Time To Jump - The Authorised Biography of Jonathan Edwards
• We Brake For Joy!
• Josephus - A Unique Witness