Cure for Life

Cure for Life
by Bernard Palmer
Summit Publishing
145 pages, £4.99 ISBN 1 9010 7407 2

Bernie Palmer is a busy practising general surgeon at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, Hertford-shire. Reportedly, Dick Lucas says of him that he has led more people to Christ than anyone else he knows. Reading this book it is easy to see why.
Cure for Life is an evangelistic book in the classic mould. It is as sound as a bell and brimming over with excitement about Christ and the Christian life which rubs off on the reader. the first five chapters cover the basic apologetics of the historicity, resurrection and meaning of the death of the Lord Jesus.
The next three explore what it is to become a Christian and firmly presses the need to turn to Christ. The last two chapters (almost a third of the book) explain the way ahead for new Christians with biblical guidelines which are full of sense and wisdom. All this is laced with vivid illustrations, not a few taken from the author's work in the medical profession, while his honesty about the ups and downs of his own Christian life lend the book a weighty sense of reality.
My only qualm is that perhaps the publishers have let the author down by plastering the front cover with a quote which would make it very difficult to lend the book to a seeker, without making them feel got at.
Buy the book. If you have 'not-yet-Christian' friends who will read it, give it to them. If you haven't then read it yourself, it will be a tonic.

JEB

Dr John Benton

© Evangelicals Now - April 1997
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