Book Reviews by Gordon Wong Armour Publishing, pp 154 "I don’t understand your God, Bryan! How can he allow so many innocent people to die from starvation yet call himself good?” my army friend asked. “To me, your God is a bad God,” he asserted firmly. God made no sense to him. God’s seeming indifference...

Book Reviews by Robert M Solomon Genesis Books, 2019, 234 pp This thin volume, written by an ex-bishop of the Methodist Church in Singapore and former Principal of Trinity Theological College, explores spiritual formation. According to the blurb at the back of the book, “Spiritual formation is the process whereby Christ is formed in us...

Book Reviews by Kenneth Boa Many Christians, even those of us who regard ourselves as spiritually mature, pray for less than five minutes a day. Yet, spiritual growth is impossible apart from the practice of prayer. In this book, Dr Kenneth Boa recognises the difficulties many of us face in prayer, The problem with prayer...

Book Reviews by Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale Our world today resembles Israel’s moral landscape in the book of Judges – in those days having no king, “everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 17:6). We should be dismayed that we can no longer pride ourselves as being different or superior to...

Book Reviews by Jerry Bridges Koinonia, a Greek word, was first used to describe the early believers in Acts 2:42. in some translations, the word can mean community or fellowship. Jerry Bridges, a Navigators’ stalwart, spends the first three chapters of True Community to weave a tapestry to bring to light the full meaning of...

Book Reviews by Ben KC Lee In the Whole Life Inventory survey taken by our church last year (2018), there was a notably stark difference - 76% of the respondents think that parents have the primary responsibility of teaching the young about sex and sexuality; in actual fact, only 17% do. As a matter of...

Book Reviews by Normal Geisler & David Geisler Could evangelism be a part and parcel of our lives?  If it could, how would we address queries and objections? The Geislers believe Evangelism should be a daily event. They lay out how everyone, with a bit of love, wisdom, knowledge and gumption, could be a genial...

Book Reviews by Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell As we anticipate the Celebration of Hope (May 17-19), we want to “…honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect…”...

Book Reviews by Larry Warner St Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Catholic Order of the Jesuits, developed and presented his Spiritual Exercises in the 1520s. The exercises were meant as a tool for spiritual formation into Christlikeness and a greater intimacy and union with God. The exercises were to be done full time over...

Book Reviews by Richard J. Foster It was Revd Canon Terry Wong who first introduced me to Richard J. Foster through his classic Celebration of Discipline. And I have benefited from it. Foster is an American theologian who earned his doctorate from Fuller Theological Seminary. Treasure Trove recently acquired his Streams of Living Water. In...