I don’t know about you but sometimes I feel like I am being held hostage by emotions. In my day-to-day life this looks like either being ruled by my feelings or feeling like I have no feelings at all.

Adapted to our modernised attention span at a truly pamphlet size, this has all the basics to get you raring to go and feeling equipped

This book is a helpful tool to share with others you want to communicate the gospel to. The explanations are clear and not full of jargon, but also invite the reader to respond to what they have read.

This is one of those books on suffering and lamenting that’s written from the trenches, rather than the philosophers’ armchair.

For me those first parenting years sometimes felt a bit more like drowning in a raging river than gracefully gliding like a duck on a calm lake.

I recently discovered I was not so stoic when in pain and anticipating more to come. My world shrunk to reacting, enduring, and managing my unhappy body and mind.

‘Growing Together: Taking mentoring beyond small talk and prayer requests’, rather than being a how-to of discipling is an actual tool to use in a mentoring relationship.

“This would be a valuable book to use to kick off a mentoring relationship, you could cover the nine topics and then move on to reading the Bible together. It’s a book that would be helpful to read on your own, but even more helpful to buy two copies of and invite a younger Christian to read with you.”

Our Teens Pick for 2021, ‘Transformed By Truth: Why and how to study the Bible for yourself as a teen’, helps teens make that important transition to reading the Bible on their own.

Katherine Foster wrote the book as a teenager herself, and she wants to encourage other teens to be able to read the Bible for themselves and be transformed by it.

‘Reformation Women’ opens with this statement, “Women are an essential element in church history. Just as Sarah, Deborah, Esther, and the New Testament Marys helped shape Bible history, so the women of the Reformed church have helped to make its history great.”

“What a great encouragement this book was to me! It challenged me to think about what it looks like to live out my Christian faith as a woman.”

Our Kids Pick for 2021 is a rare find, a book about sin for children!

“Arlo and the Great Big Cover-up is a story that will encourage kids (and adults) to remember that our heavenly Father welcomes us with open arms when we come to Him with a heart of repentance.”

I came to Geoff Robson’s book, ‘Thank God For Bedtime’, with fairly low expectations. I don’t think I’ve ever read a Christian book on sleep. I wasn’t sure it was even necessary to think deeply about it.

As it turns out, the Bible has much more to say about sleep than I originally thought. And by delving deeper into the theology of sleep, I saw how it connects to the very heart of knowing God.