Book Reviews

Below is a list of recently recommended books. It includes the books from the 28 Sep 2008 Sunday services on the subject of facing tough questions about our faith, but is being extended as time passes.

They may be available from the St Mark's bookshop (open Monday to Friday and after Sunday services) or the HTB bookshop or you can buy online from Manna Christian Centre, Amazon, Wesley Owen or CLC.

Marks of God
Ordinary Lives Touched by God
Editor: Isabella Read; Foreword: Paul Perkin
ISBN: 095608270X

Marks of God is a book of testimonies from members of St Mark's. Find out how, through Jesus, the ordinary lives of the members of a local church are being touched by an extraordinary God.

Snap up your copy, and ideal gifts for friends and family, from the bookstall at the special price of £3.50, or £10 for 3 copies.

Available in St Mark's bookshop
Buy from Manna Christian Centre
Buy from Amazon.co.uk
Praying with the Psalms
A Year of Daily Prayers and Reflections on the Words of David
Eugene H. Peterson
ISBN: 006066567X

A devotional prayer book focusing on one year with the Psalms, the most sensitive and honest words written about daily stress and daily blessings. Recommended as part of our "Pray Where You Are" initiative.

Buy from Manna Christian Centre
Buy from Amazon.co.uk
Buy from Wesley Owen
Is God a Delusion?
Nicky Gumbel
ISBN: 1905887191

Drawing upon his experience as a barrister, Nicky Gumbel addresses the biggest issue of our age: does God exist? He sifts through the arguments adopted by some prominent atheists and assesses the evidence.

Buy from Manna Christian Centre
Buy from Wesley Owen
The Dawkins Delusion
Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine
Alistair McGrath
ISBN: 0281059276

A specific rebuttal of Dawkins' bestseller "The God Delusion"

Buy from Manna Christian Centre
Buy from Amazon.co.uk
Buy from Wesley Owen
Buy from CLC
Dawkins' God
Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life
Alistair McGrath
ISBN: 1405125381

Alister McGrath critically examines the places where Richard Dawkins' well–established biological science changes into the speculations which undergird Dawkins' own anti–religious faith.

Buy from Manna Christian Centre
Buy from Amazon.co.uk
Buy from Wesley Owen
Buy from CLC
The Reason for God
Belief in an Age of Scepticism
Tim Keller
ISBN: 0340979321

In this apologia for Christian faith, Keller mines material from literary classics, philosophy, anthropology and a multitude of other disciplines to make an intellectually compelling case for God.

Available in St Mark's bookshop
Buy from Manna Christian Centre
Buy from Amazon.co.uk
Buy from Wesley Owen
Buy from CLC
God's Undertaker
Has Science Buried God?
John Lennox
ISBN: 0745953034

Evaluates the evidence of modern science in relation to the debate between the atheistic and theistic interpretations of the universe, and provides a fresh basis for discussion.

Available in St Mark's bookshop
Buy from Manna Christian Centre
Buy from Amazon.co.uk
Buy from Wesley Owen
Buy from CLC

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