The Briefing #350—November, 2007

Couldn't Help Noticing

• Wives and lovers
• Church growth, gospel growth, and church decimation
• Addiction
• Faith
• Episcopal repentance

Bookshelf

• Pierced for Our Transgressions—David Starling takes a look at a book which explains, applies, celebrates and defends the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement.
• Cross Words—John Diacos takes a look at another book on atonement by Paul Wells.

Truth decay

• The Facebook of truth—The ‘truth’ doesn't seem so important any more. Is this a loss, an irrelevance or an opportunity? Tony Payne reviews two significant books on this subject by David F Wells.
• Times are a-changin'? Christians and truth—How does the dying concept of truth in our society affect Christianity? Gavin Perkins reviews two books which bring clarity to the murk.

Kids' ministry

• Rightly handling the word of truth—Alison Mitchell provides some guiding principles on how to teach God's inspired word to children.

Pastor's Brief

• Preaching with biblical confidence—Simon Manchester shows us how to avoid false confidence and no confidence in biblical preaching, and how to find real confidence in God's word.

Bible Brief

• Isaiah 13-27—20 daily Bible readings by Tony Wright

Epilogue

• Here's mud in your eye!—Tony Payne reflects on the episode on John 9 where Jesus makes mud and anoints a blind man with it.

The Briefing Lounge

• Episode 2— Oliver O'Donovan, Professor of Christian Ethics at Edinburgh University Divinity School, talks to Tony Payne in The Briefing Lounge about evangelical ethics. Download MP3 (16.31 MB). Subscribe to our podcast.