Parents should take care reading a book like this. This insight into disability is deceptively easy digest, but the work these God-given stories carry out is nothing short of profound.

Can I be a Christian if I'm depressed? Is my failure to find 'the joy of Christ' a sin? These and other questions, which plague many suffering believers, are addressed in a helpful ten-part Bible study series from an author with professional and theological insight.

Authors tend to avoid reviewing other products for fear of mixed motives. But I cannot resist shouting from the roof tops about The Essential Jesus.

Penny Reeve worked for TEAR in Nepal for 5 years with her husband. She has now written two children’s books - 'The Back Leg of a Goat' and 'Water or Goo'.

The theme of this book is the Christian and suffering. Six Christian writers are examined on various subjects: Lactantius on anger, Augustine on obsession, Luther on despair, Kierkegaard on anxiety, Bonhoeffer on disappointment and CS Lewis on pain.

Shame is a very powerful emotion. Not everyone can say they have experienced its full effect. Yet those that have will testify to how strong a grip it can have.

The Essential Jesus is a unique resource for modern Christians hoping to bring the Gospel to a world increasingly unfamiliar with the person at its heart. The story about its origins makes just as interesting reading.

If the Chinese proverb is true and a single conversation with a wise person is worth more than a month’s study of books…then Open House could be the equivalent of a Master’s course in life, with topics ranging from God, pain, success and poverty to masculinity, materialism, politics and art.

This is an account of Jesus that emphasises his context. Its a slice through his last year along with every thing else of note in the historically recorded world. Its claim is that many of the events of AD33 shifted the human history of the world and still do.

In the evangelical Christian world, there aren’t too many people more famous than Don Carson. This is a record of the life and ministry of Don Carson’s father – Tom Carson.

For many people depression is that term they use for feeling a little worse than being in a low mood. It’s a feeling we have all had – being sad, moody or low – it’s a normal part of life and it passes.

Dever has a real heart for the gospel and this clearly comes out in a book that gives as much clarity on what the message is not as it does what the Gospel should be.

The Bible is such a huge book: wherever do you start? We all know it is good for us, but then so were cabbages, according to Mum.

As young believers, my friends and I were often excited when rock stars and other celebrities said they were Christians. Why was this important to us?