Mid-March 2019 Selection
We are delighted to feature Timaru author Rosie Staite’s brand new book All-Age Worship Vol. 2. We also have Vol. 1 in stock.
Your mid-March selection also includes new books by Barbara Brown Taylor, Mike Berners-Lee and Peter Stanford. There are also books on different aspects of prayer, growing older and wiser, and making your sermons more effective.
Please click this link for our 2019 Lent and Easter list
___________
See the Ordering section below for information about ordering these titles, (including alternatives to using our PayPal shopping cart buttons). our postage charges and orders for overseas customers.
[Prices, stock levels and estimated delivery time for titles on this page were last updated on 13 March 2019]
AUSTRALIAN customers
|
Barbara Brown Taylor continues her spiritual journey of finding out what the world looks like after taking off her clergy collar. She contemplates the myriad ways other people and traditions encounter the Transcendent, both by digging deeper into those traditions herself and by seeing them through her students’ eyes as she sets off with them on field trips to monasteries, temples, and mosques. Troubled and inspired by what she learns, Taylor returns to her own tradition for guidance, finding new meaning in old teachings that have too often been used to exclude religious strangers instead of embracing the divine challenges they present. Re-imagining some central stories from the religion she knows best, she takes heart in how often God chooses outsiders to teach insiders how out-of-bounds God really is. |
|
Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics – the list of concerns seems endless. But what is most pressing, what are the knock-on effects of our actions, and what should we do first? Mike Berners-Lee maps it out in an accessible and entertaining way, filled with astonishing facts and analysis. For the first time you’ll find big-picture perspective on the environmental and economic challenges of the day laid out in one place and traced through to the underlying roots – questions of how we live and think. This book will shock you, surprise you – and then make you laugh. And you’ll find practical and even inspiring ideas for what you can actually do to help humanity thrive on this – our only – planet. |
“Medical science has added years to our lives. Reb Zalman’s warm and wise book arrives just in time to add life to those years.” Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People Reb Zalman shows readers how to create an aging process for themselves that is full of adventure, passion, mystery, and fulfilment, rather than anxiety. By harnessing the power of the spirit, as well as explaining exactly how to become a sage in their own community, he gives readers a helpful and moving way to use their own experiences to nurture, heal, and perhaps even save a younger generation from the prison of how we typically regard aging. A new introductory chapter that provides insight into the shifts that have taken place in our culture since the first edition of this book came out in the 1990s. Reb Zalman has also added a concluding chapter in which he shares his own experience with aging and the time he calls “The December Years.” |
|
There has never been a more important time to find meaningful and acceptable ways of passing on faith from one generation to the next. Part of this privilege and responsibility lies with grandparents who live authentic Christian lives. They can be the vital link between the gospel and the faith of a younger generation. Faithful Grandparents is a visionary call to an older generation to take the initiative with courage and wisdom, humour and prayer. |
People looking for a church home value good preaching most of all. If visitors don’t hear inspiring sermons they will not come back to your church. But how can you become a great preacher? This book will show you how. Reeb shows why so many sermons miss the mark – usually due to design issues, rather than poor content. He introduces 6 critical characteristics of effective sermons, how to capture the attention of the listener, the best method for having maximum impact with a sermon, and many other helpful ways to be an effective preacher. |
|
In this magnificently illustrated cultural history, Schama details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millennia, from their beginnings as an ancient tribal people to the opening of the New World in 1492. It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. A great story unfolds. Not of a culture apart, but of a Jewish world immersed in and imprinted by the peoples among whom they have dwelled, from the Egyptians to the Greeks, from the Arabs to the Christians. Which makes the story of the Jews everyone’s story, too. |
For generations, the Bible has been employed by settler colonial societies as a weapon to dispossess indigenous and racialised peoples of their lands, cultures, and spiritualties. Given this devastating legacy, many want nothing to with it. But is it possible for the exploited and their allies to reclaim the Bible from the dominant powers? Can it serve as an instrument for justice in the cause of the oppressed? Even a nonviolent weapon toward decolonisation? In Unsettling the Word, over 60 indigenous and settler authors come together to wrestle with the Scriptures, rereading and re-imagining the ancient text for the sake of reparative futures.
|
|
Can Christians still pray the Our Father in the 21st century? We can, and we must. Catholic theologian Gerhard Lohfink breaks open its strange phrases like “hallowed be thy name,” its off-putting language like “Father” and “kingdom,” and its apparently harsh demands like forgive us as we have forgiven those who hurt us —to shed light on Jesus’ original words and their meaning. By probing what the prayer meant for Jesus and his first disciples in their world Lohfink calls us to allow the Our Father to break open our own minds and hearts to its infinite invitation and challenge for our time and for all ages. |
Prayer remains a vital part of Christian discipleship. This ready-to-use resource book contains 80 ideas on setting up reflective and creative prayer stations or responses. Claire Daniel shows us how to pray with our whole being – our senses as well as our voice, our hearts as much as our minds. Tried and tested, these ideas will enhance the praying of small groups, churches and individuals. Also by Daniel:
|
|
Books on prayer can so often make us feel challenged but guilty. Not this one! Prayer in the Making is a book for everyone wanting to pray more confidently. Because we are all different, we need to find the prayer life that fits with who God made us to be. Lyndall Bywater explores twelve different types of prayer, helping us to find the ones which best suit us and our lifestyles. She certainly challenges us but leaves us ready to talk confidently with God. |
When they discover Celtic spirituality, many Christians feel that in some sense they have come home. Mitton takes 15 leading figures from that era – ranging from Patrick of Ireland to John of Beverley – and shares something of their stories, showing their burning love for the Bible, their depth of prayer, their radical commitment to the poor and to caring for creation. Reflecting on their lives and works, we can find powerful inspiration for our own walk with God and rich resources for the ministry of the local church. |
|
Alone with himself, even among his flock, a young bird finds an unexpected connection in the eyes of a little girl. He begins to wonder about the nature of life: What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be a bird? Swept up in his exploration of the human world, he doesn’t notice that his flock has already migrated south for the season. Written by JonArno Lawson and beautifully illustrated by Nahid Kazemi, this sparse, lyrical story is about community lost and found, and what it means to know one’s self. |
Our culture seems to be busier and more technologically connected than in any time in history. We must find ways to mitigate distracted living, because it is diminishing our ability as Christ followers to live out Jesus’ greatest commandments: to love God and love others. This is a journey that never ends, and it is a journey that requires focus. The antidote to distraction is focused love. The Jesus Challenge is a 3-week journey to help you become more attentive to your relationship with God. This book invites you to move from forgetfulness to remembering, from distraction to intentionality, and from self-sufficiency to God-reliance, so that you can live lives that center on loving God and loving others as ourselves. The book contains leader helps that can be combined with the DVD (see below) featuring 8-10 minute video segments designed for small group discussion. The Jesus Challenge DVD:
|
|
No matter how full your life is, sometimes its purpose stagnates. There’s an inner void often neglected. Why not try God? Who is this mysterious being that some people worship while others curse? Bring your doubts, assumptions and questions. Consider evidence for God in nature, history, and experience through Trinity. With vivid transparency Joyce Long shares personal observations, stories and biblical examples that address struggles we sometimes wonder if God sees and cares about. Discover how God’s triune nature—Creator-Father, Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit—can work in your life so that you can transcend the shallow and mature in love, forgiveness and peace. |
“Theology is a place and a story. Theology is the place and story you think of when you ask yourself about the meaning of your life, of the world, and the possibility of God.” So begins Serene Jones’s epic work of raw truth, fierce love, and spiritual teaching as muscular as the fractured soul of this century demands. With a voice that is at once frank and poetic, humble and prophetic, intimate and practical, Jones makes complex teachings around hatred, forgiveness, mercy, justice, death, sin and grace understandable, and immediately applicable for modern people. “‘Theology’ is one of those words that sends people in another direction these days, but this book is a beautifully written reminder of what it might mean in reality. For a tired, divided, angry world, this volume is a great blessing.” Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? |
|
Churches and other religious organisations depend on the ability of their leaders and members to communicate (speak, teach, and preach) within their congregations and beyond. This important, practical guide reveals Campolo’s preaching secrets and Darling’s wise counsel as a professor of communication. A hands-on resource for all Christians who want to communicate with more passion and power.
|
These intriguing interviews with activists, writers and artists, politicians, rebels and those who have taken vows will appeal to committed believers, those on the fringes of faith, and those who look in from the outside with curiosity. Includes interviews with: Sara Maitland | Sister Wendy Beckett | Delia Smith | The Revd Richard Coles | Dermot O’Leary | Cherie Blair | Archbishop Desmond Tutu | Bronwen Astor | Amos Oz | Nick Cave. Peter Stanford has been interviewing people of faith during 35 years as a journalist. What fascinates him in such conversations is how creating a space to talk unguardedly about faith unlocks so much more: what shaped and continues to shape the public and private lives of high-profile names; how those values connect with the work they are best known for; and why they believe the search for faith makes them who they are. |
|
The true self finds peace in resting in the love of God, in the peace which Jesus promises. Jesus says to each of us in ministry, ‘As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide, rest, dwell, in my love’ (John 15:9). This book will seek to show what this might mean for those in Christian ministry in the 21st century. Following on from the success of The Contemplative Minister (at right), Ian Cowley offers new insight and greater depth for church leaders in a distracted world. Cowley emphasises that the true self finds peace in resting in the love of God, and he encourages ministers to minister to themselves as well as to others, and to ensure that, in the peace that Jesus promises, their spiritual lives don’t run dry amid the pressures of the job. A must-read for leaders wanting to stay the course. |
Also by Cowley from BRF:The Contemplative Minister:
|
Ordering
We ask for prepayment with orders.
Ordering via the PayPal Add to Cart buttons gives you a secure way to order and pay online using your credit card. (See further PayPal instructions here) OR
You are also welcome to pay by telling us your Visa or Mastercard details, by online banking or by cheque. Email or phone us to place your order and arrange payment using one of these options.Each month we choose a selection of titles that we think you will find stimulating and satisfying to read. So come back to the Monthly Selections section of our website regularly.
Please also ask us about any other books you are interested in. We will give you a price and time to deliver. Emailing us atbookspgpl@gmail.com works best.
Payment Options:
- Phone us on (04) 475 8855 to tell us your Visa or MasterCard details and the titles you want to order. We will process your credit card payment here, OR
- Click the Add to Cart buttons to order your books securely online via our PayPal
shopping cart. (See further PayPal instructions here), OR - Email us at bookspgpl@gmail.com and we will email you an invoice so you can pay by online/internet banking or by posting us a cheque.
Some books will be in stock. Others will be ordered in when you place your order. These will usually take 3 to 6 weeks to arrive.
Postage Charges
Our usual NZ postage charges apply: $5.50 for orders up to $65, $7.00 for orders up to $199.99 and freight free for orders $200 or over.
Overseas customers
Please email us at bookspgpl@gmail.com with your requirements as we will need to deduct NZ GST from your order and higher postal charges will apply.
__________________
Other recent email newsletters
Click here for:
Lent and Easter 2019 resources &
Year C – 2019 Devotional, Worship and Preaching resources
And click here for links to our other recent selections.
Stock list on our website
There are now over 800 titles listed on our website.
Click here for a summary of all the books, CDs and DVDs
Specials on Trade Me
We have over 150 titles loaded on Trade Me, many of which are now reduced to $5.00 or less (but only while stock lasts). These are all in stock now. 50 are listed as auctions at any one time. They are all Buy Now only, so order straight away to secure your books. The listings last 5 days, so come back every few days to see a fresh list.
Click here for our current listings on TradeMe.
Are you looking for a specific book?
Please also ask us to find any other books you are interested in. We will give you a price and time to deliver. Emailing us at bookspgpl@gmail.com works best.
Want to get published in 2019?
Check out the Publish your book with us page on our website, which explains how we can work with you to publish your book in print and as an eBook.