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My reading year (2025 edition)
1 January 2026
‘Tis Mercy All
5 August 2025
Together for the City
12 November 2024
Multilingual Church
17 April 2024
Everyday Church
8 February 2024
How a vision of our eternal future impacts our lives today
11 June 2023
The Sexual Reformation
4 January 2023
My books of the year (2022)
3 January 2023
Endurance
22 December 2022
My films of 2021
6 January 2022
My 2021 Reading
3 January 2022
Developing Female Leaders
18 September 2020
Everyman
29 July 2020
A Utopia like any other
20 February 2020
The Resurrection by Geza Vermes
7 February 2020
Book Review: The Gospel According to Ruth
25 February 2019
Book Review: Boomerang
20 February 2019
Book review: Apostolic Church Planting
14 January 2019
Book Review: Foundation and Earth
24 July 2018
Book Review: Engaging with Hindus
28 March 2018
Book Review: Prelude to Foundation
16 March 2018
Book Review: Prisoners of Geography
12 February 2018
Book Review: When breath becomes air
2 February 2018
Book Review: Stepping into the Impossible
11 January 2018
Book Review: Contagious Disciple Making
20 November 2017
Book Review: Them
26 September 2017
Book Review: Parenting
11 September 2017
Book Review: On Writing
7 October 2016
Book Review: The Rise of the Robots
19 August 2016
Book Review: So you’ve been publicly shamed
27 June 2016
Book Review: Christians, Muslims & Islamic Rage
17 May 2016
Book Review: Sophie Scholl & The White Rose
15 April 2016
Book Review: Holy Warriors
30 March 2016
Book Review: Coaching in Ministry
20 January 2016
Books of 2015
7 January 2016
Book Review: More than a Carpenter
10 December 2015
Book Review: Why Cities Matter
13 November 2015
Book Review: Saturate
5 November 2015
Book Review: A wind in the house of Islam
9 September 2015
Book Review: Cities of God
2 September 2015
Book Review: Creating Community
13 April 2015
Book Review: Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus
8 April 2015
Book review: From the Garden to the City
26 March 2015
Calvary
23 March 2015
Book Review: The Coming Chinese Church
24 February 2015
Books of 2014
6 February 2015
Book Review: Feral
2 February 2015
Book Review: Equals
25 November 2014
Book Review: The Bible in 100 pages
7 October 2014
Book Review: The Year of Living Biblically
25 August 2014
Film Review: Terms & Conditions May Apply
22 August 2014
Connected
19 August 2014
Life Together: Confession
19 June 2014
Life Together: Ministry
17 June 2014
Life Together: The day alone
13 June 2014
Life Together – The day with others
11 June 2014
Life Together: Community
9 June 2014
Book Review: No Perfect People Allowed
23 January 2014
Book Review: Born to Run
10 January 2014
Book Review: The Secular City
30 December 2013
The books of 2013
27 December 2013
Book Review: A society without God
28 October 2013
Book Review: Dominion
25 September 2013
Book Review: Freedom & Boundaries
9 July 2013
Book review: The gender agenda
5 July 2013
Book Review: Gilead
1 July 2013
Book Review: The Good God
11 March 2013
Book Review: A Passionate Faith
6 February 2013
Book Review: Heartstone
29 January 2013
Book Review: Hearing her voice
23 January 2013
Books of 2012
2 January 2013
Book Review: The secret thoughts of an unlikely convert
19 December 2012
Book Review: A meal with Jesus
1 November 2012
Book Review: Tyndale
24 October 2012
Book review: Multiplying missional leaders
16 October 2012
Book review: The Meeting of the Waters
8 October 2012
Book Review: If God then what?
30 July 2012
Book Review: Thy Kingdom Come
25 July 2012
Book Review: The Open Church
9 July 2012
Book Review: Fathering Leaders, Motivating Mission
14 June 2012
Book Review: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jesus
30 March 2012
Book review: All hell let loose
23 January 2012
The best books of 2011
2 January 2012
Books of 2011
31 December 2011
Book Review: Good Omens
30 December 2011
Book review: Asylum and Immigration
28 December 2011
Book Review: Generous Justice
19 December 2011
Book Review: Band of Brothers
12 December 2011
Book Review: Preaching Christ
7 December 2011
Book Review: When heaven invades earth
5 December 2011
Book Review: The Spirit Filled Church
21 November 2011
Book review: The road to missional
14 November 2011
Book review: John Bunyan
7 November 2011
Book Review: Provocative Faith
31 October 2011
Book Review: City Changing Prayer
24 October 2011
Book Review: Jesus’ parables of the lost and found
17 October 2011
Book Review: Enough is enough
14 October 2011
Book Review: Churchmorph
10 October 2011
Book Review: What they didn’t teach you in seminary
6 October 2011
Book Review: Good to Grow
29 September 2011
Book Review: Tactics
19 August 2011
Book Review: The girl who played with fire
18 August 2011
Book Review: The Lord of the Ring
10 August 2011
Book Review: Conspiracy of the Insignificant
5 July 2011
Book Review: Facedown
29 June 2011
Book Review: Holding Serve
15 June 2011
Book Review: The Translator
14 June 2011
Book Review: Losing my religion?
6 June 2011
Book Review: Faithworks 2: Stories of Hope
24 May 2011
Book Review: The Great Divorce
5 May 2011
There's nothing new being said about hell
3 May 2011
There’s nothing new being said about hell
3 May 2011
Love Wins: Lessons in how not to argue 2
2 May 2011
Love Wins: Lessons in how not to argue 1
29 April 2011
Book Review: Love Wins
28 April 2011
Love Wins: The influences
27 April 2011
Love Wins: The context
26 April 2011
Book Review: The Genesis Enigma
14 April 2011
Book Review: Eyes of Integrity
6 April 2011
Book Review: Holiness & Mission
15 March 2011
Book Review: A new perspective on Jesus
10 March 2011
Book Review: Freakonomics
8 March 2011
Book Review: Before the Frost
3 March 2011
Book Review: Consumer Detox
14 January 2011
Reviews: 2010
31 December 2010
Book Review: Audio, Video and Media in the Ministry
31 December 2010
My ten most popular book reviews of 2010
16 December 2010
Book Review: The Spirit Level
7 December 2010
Book Review: What crucified Jesus?
16 November 2010
Book Review: Christians & Catastrophe
9 November 2010
Book Review: The Victors
28 October 2010
Book Review: Windows PC in the Ministry
11 October 2010
Book Review: The Return
8 October 2010
Book Review: The Early Church
6 October 2010
Book Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4 October 2010
Book Review: Planting Churches, Changing Communities
31 August 2010
Book Review: John Milton
5 August 2010
Book Review: God’s Lavish Grace
2 August 2010
Book Review: House churches will they survive?
30 July 2010
Book Review: Europe 1815-1945
28 July 2010
Book Review: Giving
5 July 2010
Book Review: The Trials of Theology
21 June 2010
Risking the truth: A review of my review
3 June 2010
Book Review: My Father, Maker of the Trees
17 May 2010
Book Review: Risking the truth
14 May 2010
Book Review: A Piano in the Pyrenees
14 April 2010
Book Review: The Radical Disciple
6 April 2010
Book Review: Dietrich Bonhoeffer – A brief life
22 March 2010
Book Review: Love is an Orientation
15 March 2010
Book Review: Silent Savior
10 March 2010
Book Review: Just Politics
9 March 2010
Book Review: Forgotten God
8 March 2010
Book Review: Virtual Integrity
2 March 2010
Book Review: Success
19 February 2010
Book Review: Pegasus Bridge
10 February 2010
Book Review: Enough
4 February 2010
Book Review: Blood & Sand
3 February 2010
Book Review: Crazy Love
2 February 2010
Book Review: You are the treasure I seek
13 January 2010
Book Review: These Strange Ashes
12 January 2010
Book Review: Status Anxiety
11 January 2010
Reviews: 2009
8 January 2010
Book Review: The Way Forward? Christian Voices on Homosexuality & the Church
5 January 2010
Book Review: Darkest England & The Way Back In
16 December 2009
Book Review: Votewise Now!
15 December 2009
Book Review: The Gates
14 December 2009
Book Review: Counterfeit Gods
3 December 2009
Book Review: Affluenza
26 November 2009
Reviews: 2008
13 November 2009
Reviews: 2007
13 November 2009
Book Review: The Busy Christian’s Guide to Busyness
12 November 2009
Book Review: Vintage Church
27 October 2009
Book Review: Planting Churches – A framework for practitioners
26 October 2009
Book Review: Homosexuality and the Bible
23 October 2009
Book Review: Out of Egypt
8 October 2009
Book Review: Same Sex Marriage – is it really the same?
2 September 2009
Book Review: A Peculiar Prophet
11 August 2009
Book Review: The Monkey and the Fish
23 July 2009
Book Review: Nine Marks of a Healthy Church
22 July 2009
Book Review: Angels & Demons
30 June 2009
Book Review: The Divine Commodity
15 May 2009
Book Review: The Kite Runner
25 February 2009
Book Review: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
24 February 2009
Book Review: Sovereign
23 February 2009
Book Review: Deliberate Simplicity
19 February 2009
Book Review: Axiom
18 February 2009
Book Review: Evolution Fact or Fiction?
28 January 2009
Book Review: Three Views on Creation and Evolution
21 January 2009
Book Review: How to get really rich
2 January 2009
Top Ten Books of 2008
29 December 2008
Book Review: Jesus wants to save Christians
26 November 2008
Book Review: 12 Books That Changed the World
10 November 2008
Book Review: Becoming A Contagious Church
8 November 2008
Book Review: It
20 October 2008
Book Review: The Shack
2 October 2008
Book Review: Business for the Glory of God
16 September 2008
Book Review: The Treasure Principle
4 September 2008
Book Review: Bind Us Together
30 August 2008
Book Review: Small Footprint, Big Handprint
27 August 2008
Book Review: Seven Ways to Change the World
12 August 2008
Book Review: Humility
27 July 2008
Book Review: Dissolution
23 July 2008
Book Review: Free of Charge
15 July 2008
Book Review: Growing for God
1 July 2008
Book Review: Jesus for President
1 June 2008
Book Review: The Disciple-Making Pastor
14 April 2008
Book Review: The Jazz of Preaching
27 March 2008
Book Review: When The Game Is Over It All Goes Back In The Box
31 January 2008
Get Saved
24 January 2008
Book Review: FB Meyer
14 January 2008
Are Christians hypocritical?
14 January 2008
Book Review: Christmas with Dietrich Bonhoeffer
19 December 2007
Book Review: Monster
3 December 2007
Book Review: Holy Discontent
28 November 2007
Book Review: Dictionary of Mission Theology
27 November 2007
Book Review: Who Am I?
24 November 2007
Book Review: Total Church
20 November 2007
Book Review: Doing Church as a Team
30 October 2007
Book Review: Augustine and His World
13 October 2007
Book Review: One Touch from the King
1 October 2007
Book Review: The Pocket Guide to the Apocalypse
27 September 2007
Book Review: Fallen
24 September 2007
Book Review: The Myth of Happiness
8 September 2007
Book Review: Generosity
23 August 2007
Book Review: Pierced for our Transgressions
14 August 2007
Book Review: They Like Jesus But Not the Church
16 July 2007
Book review: The Nomadic Church
7 July 2007
Book Review: Confessions of a Reformission Rev.
29 June 2007
Book Review: The Power of Generosity
25 June 2007
Book Review: Remarriage After Divorce in Today’s Church (3 Views)
18 June 2007
Thinking biblically about beauty
12 June 2007
Thinking biblically about climate change
5 June 2007
Freedom of Simplicity
4 June 2007
Serve God Save the Planet
9 May 2007
Kingdom Come
17 April 2007
Amazing Grace: Book and Film
5 April 2007
What matters most?
24 February 2007
The Good, The Bad & the Difference
18 February 2007
Bono on Bono
16 February 2007
Intelligent Church?
8 February 2007
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