Practice What You Preach - Testament

Advantages: An interesting analysis
Disadvantages: For a narrow audience

...the church can truly embrace as the exemplar of priestly character. 'Priests who are not persons for others are living contradictions of their calling.' Perhaps in no other statement in his book does Haring embrace the idea that Jesus was calling for in the world of discipleship and service. So often in education and formation of ministers of every denomination, the tendency away from actual practice of ministry toward either academic concentration or leadership emphasis takes people away from their true calling. Haring states, Knowing about poverty and living it are two different things. Becoming a disciple of the Son of Man requires that we meditate daily in the here and now, in our lived context, on what it means to be 'one of us'. Looking at many of the problems with ministry, specifically for Fr. Haring in the Roman Catholic... Read review

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Advantages: An interesting look at the way biblical texts are read and used
Disadvantages: -

...Ron Allen is a professor of preaching and New Testament at my seminary, Christian Theological Seminary, and the author of many books on preaching and biblical exegesis. For this volume, he teamed with John Holbert, who teaches preaching and Hebrew Bible at Perkins School of Theology, SMU. One of the perennial tasks of a preacher is to faithfully use the scriptures that came before the four gospels and rest of the Christian era writings. This books addresses that issue head-on. One of the issues, which comes to the forefront at the very start of such an inquiry, is what to call it? There are issues with the terms ?Old Testament?, ?Hebrew Scriptures?, and other commonplace terms we take for granted. The assumptions built into the term ?Old Testament? conjure up negative images and an implicit second-class status. Thus, the authors... Read review

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Advantages: Simple counting book for pre-school children.
Disadvantages: Pop-ups are a little fragile with enthusiastic little hands!!

...This book is one of a series of books by Jo Lodge, aimed a pre-school children. - Content - On each page the reader is invited to join in with finding and counting the different animals on the pages. It is predominantly an early counting book from 1 to 5. Each page begins with: 'What have you got Mr Croc?' 'One white rabbit.' 'Two sleeping kittens' And so on until we get to five dancing butterflies, followed by Mr Croc with lots of 'snapping teeth!' The content is ideal for encouraging children to identify the different animals and count them. On each page both the digit and the written word for numbers one to five are shown so good educational content whilst at the same time young children are having fun without realising they are learning at the same time! -Style, Format and Illustrations - The book has thicker than... Read review

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