by Martin Davie This is a summary of recent books read by Martin Davie, compiling his evaluations and the commendations of others. In this edition: A Forgotten Prophet: Micaiah's Courage and the Call to Faithfulness in Troubled Times by Christopher Ash. This is an excellent study which demonstrates that even biblical characters and passages that can be easily overlooked have much to teach us. A great book for personal devotional reading and a great resource for a sermon serie

This is a summary of recent books read by Martin Davie, compiling his evaluations and the commendations of others. In this edition: Ultimate Engineering by Stuart Burgess. A book that works brilliantly on two levels. It shows the brilliantly sophisticated design to be found in the natural world, and in the human body in particular. It thereby debunks the claim that the bad design in nature shows that the natural world developed by chance. Ask of Old Paths: Medieval Virtues an

Why read the Puritans? It’s easy to treat these saints of yesterday simply as figures from a rather distant seventeenth-century world: men in black gowns arguing about predestination, church government, and things which happened nearly four hundred years ago. But the questions they wrestled with are often surprisingly familiar. How do you reform a church which seems only half reformed? What should Christians do when political power interferes with faithful ministry? When