Christian Book Reviews

WINDOWS ON CHRISTMAS by Bill Crowder If you are like me and enjoy a few books based around the first Christmas story then I recommend this book, Windows on Christmas by Bill Crowder. I had another of Bill's books so when I found this little gem in the charity shop could not resist buying this book! Have checked this morning and there are a few good online prices on this book if you are interested in buying it. This book is only 117 pages in length and can easily be read as a chapter at a time. Bill looks at 6 individuals/groups of people from one chapter in the bible (Luke 2) for whom the coming of the baby Jesus into the world brought so many changes in their lives - the angels, Mary, the shepherds, Joseph, Simeon and Anna. For me this book helped me to refocus on what Christmas is really about - Jesus coming into the world as Saviour. Over the next few postings I am hoping to look at each of these people and say something of what I have learned from reading this book. ...

  The Tabernacle Camping with God By Stephen F Olford   Foreword The first 5 books of Moses (Genesis to Deuteronomy) traces the story of God’s visits to men, culminating in God’s camping with men in a Tabernacle so designed and constructed as to manifest the purpose, power, and Shekinah of the Divine Presence. The New Testament opens in a similar manner, for the first 5 books are likewise concerned with the subject of camping with God.    We read that “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the Word was God ... And the Word (became) flesh, and (tabernacled) among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.” (John 1 verses 1 – 4).    As we move on from the 4 gospels to the Acts of the Apostles we see that same grace and glory communicated to the early disciples until the outside world “took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.” (Acts 4 verse 13) The fact is that Go...