The Briefing #341—February, 2007

Couldn't Help Noticing

• Where are the children?
• Anglican follies
• Learning to drive
• We can't live without Wal-Mart
• Animal activists bite Singer
• When you despair of life itself

Resource Talk

• Small group Bible studies ... if we must—Tony Payne talks about the benefits of our Interactive Bible Study Series and our Pathway Bible Guides.

Bookshelf

• Review: Introducing God—Jacky Hooper evalutes the book of the well-known evangelistic course.

The poor and the blind

• Should we remember the poor?—Brian Rosner takes another look at this age-old question.
• Then shall the lame man leep like a deer: God and the disabled—Peter turns the Bible to see how God views people with disabilities and where they fit in his plan.
• When your child has a disability—Kate Hurley shares her experiences of having a child with autism.

Pastor's Brief

• Passion and substance: three different kinds of sermons—Luke Tattersall evaluates the preaching of three speakers who have the passion but not necessarily the substance.
• Review: Jesus and the Father: Modern Evangelicals Reinvent the Doctrine of the Trinity—Andrew Moody questions whether this second volume by Kevin Giles is really a better book.

Bible Brief

• Ezekiel—20 daily Bible readings by Rory Shiner.

Epilogue

• A little piece of fun—Phillip Jensen thinks about the role of pleasure in our lives.

Web extras

In this month's web extras,

• Sandy Grant and Phil Colgan share the ‘guidelines for giving’ brochures in use at their respective churches;
• We bring you some follow-up interchange on Genesis and intelligent design;
• And as a special bonus not mentioned in the print edition of The Briefing, we have Tim Thornborough's article on Highway, a program for adults with learning disabilities run by a church in south-west London.