http://www.journeyonline.com.au/ Opinions and Reviews from Journey en-au Thu, 2 Feb 2012 17:05:51 +1100 Thu, 2 Feb 2012 17:05:51 +1100 PHP mardi.lumsden@ucaqld.com.au (Mardi Lumsden) osker.lau@ucaqld.com.au (Osker Lau) http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?articleId=3143 Hidden Springs, New Jersey (2011), RRP $22.95 Reviewed by Bob Warrick. THE Charge (or Word of Mission) at the end of a worship service usually includes an exhortation to not just have listened and thought, but to make a difference in the world. That ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au () Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:24:00 +1100 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?articleId=3142 Accent Publications, 2010, RRP $39.95 Reviewed by Karyl Davison. MOST of us have puzzled in recent years about the way sin is understood in Australian society.Although for some of us it remains a religiously meaningful term, this has somehow become ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au () Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:24:22 +1100 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?articleId=3141 IVP books, Illinois (2011), RRP $15.95 Reviewed by Rev Dr Marian Zaunbrecher. GOD in a Brothel is not a book for the faint-hearted, but is for all those passionate about the mission of God, a mission that calls the church to proclaim freedom for ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au () Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:02:02 +1100 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?articleId=3140 SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2011, RRP $23.95 Reviewed by Karyl Davison. WE don’t often think of Christians being dangerous, let alone great Christians. But throughout the history of the Christian church there have been Christians who were not ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au () Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:57:01 +1100 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?articleId=3139 Monarch Books, 2009 RRP $19.99 Reviewed by Bill Adams. THE remarkable life of Aiden Wilson Tozer has been wonderfully presented in this lively and readable biography by James L Snyder. I expected to be introduced to a calculated coverage of a dry ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au () Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:47:12 +1100 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?articleId=3138 Chalice Press, 2009 RRP $32.95 Reviewed by Karyl Davison. LOVE them or hate them, reality TV shows make up a huge proportion of television broadcasts in Australia today. There is little doubt that some reality TV is appalling, exposing its ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au () Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:32:04 +1100 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?articleId=3132 Published by W. W. Norton and Company2010 , RRP $32.95New York and LondonReviewed by Bruce Upham. This is an absorbing book, quite apart from the main topic indicated in the title, with vivid descriptions of two minority groups we do not encounter ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au () Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:04:19 +1100 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?articleId=3131 Black Ink PressRRP $11.00 2011Reviewed by Barbara Bailey. This little book was written and illustrated by a teenager who attended after school workshops on ten Fridays in 2010. What a credit it is to her for this achievement. She writes a ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au () Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:59:25 +1100 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?articleId=3130 Gallery Books and MTV Books, 2004 RRP $19.99 Reviewed by Tara Burton. Soul Surfer tells the courageous story of Bethany Hamilton who at just the tender young age of 13 got attacked by a 14-foot tiger shark off the shores of her hometown Hawaii. She ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au () Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:13:15 +1100 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?articleId=3129 Boolarong Press, 2010 RRP $12.50 Reviewed by Paul Clark.What a delightful little book! Ruth M. Tracey shares with us some of the many insights that have come to her through the animal kingdom, working backwards through the alphabet from the Zebra to ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au () Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:08:18 +1100 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?articleId=3128 Darton, Longman & Todd, 2011 RRP $12.95 Reviewed by Karyl Davison. Ever read the book of Judges? There’s not much call for it in our regular Sunday worship, largely because it is full of stories of murder, genocide, rape, deceit and even ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au () Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:05:50 +1100 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?articleId=3127 Darton, Longman & Todd, 2011 RRP $12.95 Reviewed by Karyl Davison. This little book, part of a new series DLT Books of the Bible, provides the complete book of Galatians, with an original introduction by R.T. Kendall in which he reflects on the ...

Photo : ]]> journey@ucaqld.com.au () Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:02:19 +1100 http://www.journeyonline.com.au/showArticle.php?articleId=3126 RRP $19.95 2011 Reviewed by Graham Hall. THIS CD is a collection of 15 hymns which would be well known and loved by the older members of the Church. For example, the first four are Praise the Lord, the Almighty, the king of creation, I vow to thee ...

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