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EMA Books (9)
One last thing to say about EMA books, and this is a longer list. We have a list of new and notable titles – those that did not make it to stage recommendations. There are various reasons for this – some titles arrived too late to be read thoroughly; others were not quite strong enough; others still were not particularly related to the theme. But we liked them all. Here they are, in no particular order, together with their brief comments from the EMA journal.
There are lots of strong, new titles which we haven’t got time and space to recommend from the stage. However, we want to highlight some of them to you so you can look out for them in the EMA Bookstore. All the quotes below are from PT staff or BookPanel members.
Rico Tice’s Honest Evangelism does what it says on the tin! ‘It’s a short, easy, but helpful and focused read. Just what I needed to hear and the practical help I craved.’
A wilderness of mirrors is an accurate assessment of the world we live in which, although marked by extraordinary advances, is still undeniably broken. ‘Mark Meynell has compelling insights articulating what many of us struggle to put into words.’
The Plausibility Problem by Ed Shaw is sub-titled The church and same-sex attraction, but actually it is a book about a lot more than that. It is not just another book on what the Bible says about this pressing issue, but it is about how the church responds – ‘the lessons here are invaluable for all of church life; every church leader will benefit.’
David Murray’s The Happy Christian was too late to make it as a stage recommendation, but it is ‘truly excellent.’ David applies the gospel to many areas of life, encouraging believers to be joyful rather than gloomy. One of the panel thought this ‘really helpful for me, really helpful for my pastoral work, really helpful for my preaching.’
Slightly different is Mike Horton’s Ordinary. Horton calls Christians not to measure their lives by the constant seeking of new experiences which inevitably leave us disappointed. For those who know Mike’s other books, this is shorter and simpler (!) and ‘a very useful corrective.’
Adrian & Celia have followed up Adrian’s book on sleep with one about sex, And then he knew her. This is a short biblical theology of sex which will help those married or about to be as well as those who minister to them.