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Just a few more books
To finish off the EMA book discussion, we had a number of titles which we really loved but which didn’t quite make it to the stage – mainly for reasons of space. Here are my personal favourites:
Why the Reformation still matters by Mike Reeves and Tim Chester is possibly my favourite book of the year. I think it is a really important read going into 2017 and the 500th anniversary of Luther and the bulletin board. Get your church leaders reading it and using it to help you assess church life.
Greg Scharf’s Let the earth hear his voice is the best book on preaching I’ve read for some time. It is framed in terms of negatives – why Greg’s preaching is not quite what it could be and what he does to overcome that. I think it is now my follow on book to Dave Helm’s Expository Preaching.
Disappearing church by Mark Sayers is the best analysis of the current state of the church in the UK and an encouraging call to keep the main thing the main thing.
Rachel Jones two books 5 things to pray (for the people you love and for your church) are two of the most helpful books I have read (and used) this year. I’m a great fan of much of The Good Book’s output, but these two are especially classy.
Go feast!