365 Days with Spurgeon

Through the year with Chas and Don

For the love of God: A daily companion to Discovering God's Word.
By Don Carson. IVP. £12.99
ISBN 0 85111 589 6

365 Days With Spurgeon
Selected by Terence Peter Crosby
Day One Publications .£9.99
ISBN 0 90254 883 2

January is often the time when people seek to revitalise a sagging regime of devotions. Here are two books to consider if this is your intention.
Prof. Don Carson of Trinity Divinity School, Chicago, encourages us to follow the Bible-reading scheme invented by Robert Murray McCheyne, which involves reading about 4 chapters a day and takes us through the OT once and the NT and Psalms twice in a year. From these readings the author has selected one chapter each day on which to give his thoughts. Don Carson always mixes intellectual rigour with warm evangelical spirituality.
In our second choice of yearbook, Terence Crosby takes us back to the riches of the 19th century's greatest preacher: Charles Spurgeon. Each page is focussed on an excellent snippet from the young Spurgeon's sermons while he was minister at New Park St Chapel. Added to this, there is a suggested Bible-reading and thought for further meditation.

JEB

Dr John Benton

© Evangelicals Now - January 1999
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Main Articles

• Why forgiveness?
  Consideration of the relationship between chuch and state particularly with regard to the political situation in Ireland
• One little foot
  The story of a doctor's struggle with his conscience as to whether he should allow a deformed baby to die at birth
• Juggling work, family and church
  The difficulties of getting the right balance of priorities in our lives
• Feel good about yourself
  The war over self-esteem and self-control (reprinted from World Magazine)
• Proverbs and the power of words
  How words can powerfully affect our thoughts, beliefs, values and thus our actions
• The axe laid to the root
  An extract from a sermon preached in 1931 on the root of man's problem
• Y2K - don't panic!
  The facts and fantasies of the Year 2000 computer bug
• Y2K - is it doomsday?
  The predictions of social breakdown at the turn of the century

Other articles

• Hope Floats
• Thank You God - A Book of Children's Prayers
• Brief reviews of various books suitable as Christmas presents
• The King's Collection - CD recording of the choir of King's College in Cambridge
• Matters of Life and Death - An extract from the book Matters of Life and Death showing how the Hippocratic - Christian consensus guiding all doctors is being eroded
• God - The Evidence (The reconciliation of faith and reason in a post-secular world)
• Legend - The Genesis of Civlisation
• Interpreting Charismatic Experience
• Behind The Smile
• Awaiting the Millennium - A history of end-time thinking
• People Who Made History
• For the Love of God - A Daily Companion to Discovering God's Word
• 365 Days with Spurgeon