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– 6 March – 20 April 2019 By Jan McFarlane, Kate Bruce, Paula Gooder, CUP, £4.99 Reflections for Lent can enhance your spiritual journey through the forty days from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday.  Each day includes full lectionary details for Morning Prayer, a reflection on one of the Bible readings, and a Collect for...

– 40 days of reflections for Lent 2019 By Steven Croft, CUP, £4.99  Here you can explore the unexpected and often challenging vision Jesus sets out in this crucial part of His teachings. Each day provides a short reflection on a Bible reading, an invitation to pray and a suggestion of how you might respond...

–  on Hope & Redemption in The Greatest Showman By Rachel Mann, DLT, £6.99 Here is a Lent Course based on the hugely popular film The Greatest Showman.  The 2018 Golden Globe-nominated movie starring Hugh Jackman, about the founder and stars of the Barnum & Bailey Circus, is the basis for Lenten study of Christian...

– Omnibus Edition By Rachel Turner, BRF, £12.99 This book aims to help equip parents to raise God-connected children and teens. It provides inspiration and wisdom for nurturing children into the reality of God’s presence and love, equipping them to access Him themselves and encouraging them to grow in a two-way relationship with Him that...

By Jane Brocklehurst, Kindle edition, £1.99 Clutter begins in the mind, with a certain attitude toward material possessions. Decluttering with other people is as much a ministry as a job. If we own nothing at all, it makes us miserable because none of our basic human needs are met. Having food and clothes and a...

By Megan Carter, TSL Books, £5.50 One of the Parish Pump poets, Megan Carter, has just published a book of poems, called Amazing Grace.  If you would like to order a copy, please contact enquiries@parishpump.co.uk.  A copy costs £5.50 including P&P.

Midwife of Borneo – The True Story of a Geordie Pioneer They Called Us Love – The Story of April Holden and Africa’s Street Children Dying Well – Dying Faithfully Dream Chasers – The Journey of Nine Ordinary People Who Became Extraordinary Baby’s Special Bible Followers of the Way – Ancient discipleship for modern Christians...

by Wendy Grey, SPCK, £7.99 1959. Newcastle nurse Wendy Grey leaves her comfortable life and answers a call from people in Borneo to run a clinic in a place so remote, many there have never before seen a white woman. Until her arrival, medical witchcraft has been the norm. Nevertheless, Wendy quickly gains the trust...

By April Holden & Deborah Meroff, SPCK, £7.99 April Holden was told Africa would lead to her death. She went anyway.  Despite chronic health problems, she was accepted by a mission, which sent her initially to Egypt. Then she seized the chance to move to one of the toughest, most war-torn countries in North Africa, pioneering...

By John Wyatt, IVP, £9.99 We cannot choreograph our own death, but we can die well.  This is a book for those who are facing death. It is also for their relatives, friends and carers. John Wyatt looks at recent trends in dying. He examines the ‘art of dying’, a Christian tradition from the past....

by Uta Schmidt, Lion Hudson, £9.99 Have you ever known the pain and disappointment of a shattered dream, a hope deferred, a vision put on hold? Maybe you started out with a dream in your heart, but it got buried beneath the rubble of life’s challenges. Whatever it may be, life took some unexpected turns...

by Corien Oranje & Marieke Ten Berge, Lion Children’s, £12.99 Perfect for reading aloud to your baby, together you will feel the sun on your cheeks, bump along with Abraham on the camel and make music for the Lord. A shared experience that you will treasure with your baby, as you look at baby Jesus...