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How to run a book club

Taking on Bible Book Club but never run – or even been to – a book club? Here are a few tips…

How to choose a book for Bible Book Club

Starting Bible Book Club but don’t know where to begin? Here are some ideas…

I’ve written for years. I’m writing my second book.

‘I’ve written for years. I’m writing my second book. My dream is to get the book out there for people to read. I love my characters and they are part of my life, and I find it exciting finding out what’s going to happen. But, I’ve only sold...

The book of Job always comes back to me

The book of Job always comes back to me: it’s the immensity of it, the horrors that he suffers and just when it seems there is no hope, there is restoration. I studied medicine. For me, those were the years when I came closest to suffering. That’...

The book of Isaiah is really important to me

The book of Isaiah is really important to me. I read it during the year that I was Student Union President at Exeter University. I’d just finished my degree in theology and suddenly found myself in charge of sixty staff. I was super, super busy and...

My favourite book of the Bible is Philippians

My favourite book of the Bible is Philippians. It speaks a lot about joy and how to be content. There’s a section that talks about what it’s like to have plenty and nothing, food and to be hungry and always to be content. That’s something that ...

I read a book in the pandemic which was all about God’s heart for sinners and sufferers

‘I read a book in the pandemic which was all about God’s heart for sinners and sufferers. One of the chapters looks at Hebrews 4.15 which says, “For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in ev...

My Bible is open at Luke 9 which is about how Jesus feeds 5,000 people

‘My Bible is open at Luke 9 which is about how Jesus feeds 5,000 people. This is interesting because he found a child with five loaves and two fish. This shows me that I can do something for God. That child could have eaten that food himself, but h...

Bible Society Shop – Bibles, Christian books and more resources

Our online shop brings you great offers on a wide range of Bibles, books, DVDs and other resources aimed at helping you and your community discover the message of the Bible.

The Book of James: A whistle-stop tour

Our Book of the Month for July is the Letter of James. It is a short letter – only five chapters – but it has some extraordinarily deep and challenging teaching within it.

Joel

The opening section of the book of Joel focuses on a plague of locusts that descends on the land and causes famine. Joel sees this as a call to repentance. The second half of the book sees God responding and promising to remove the locust plague. The...

1 Kings

In 1 Kings, the story of David continues from where it ended in 2 Samuel. The book opens with David in his old age and about to die, and the power struggle to succeed him. Despite the fact that Solomon was a younger son, through the efforts of his mo...

Habakkuk

Habakkuk consists of a conversation between Habakkuk and God about injustice in the world. The book opens with a protest from the prophet about God’s inaction in the face of so much evil. God responds by saying he is sending the Chaldeans or Babylo...

Zephaniah

This is one of the bleaker prophetic books. It opens with a description of the 'day of the Lord', which is characterised as bringing destruction upon the world. It itemises the human beings as well as the animals who will be swept away befo...

Tobit

This is the story of Tobit who is said to have lived in Nineveh (the capital of Assyria) after the northern tribes of Israel were deported to Assyria following the destruction of the Northern Kingdom in 722 BC. Tobit was a righteous man but the openi...

Job

The book of Job famously asks why bad things happen to good people and, perhaps even more importantly, how a good person ought to respond. The opening chapters suggest that Job’s suffering took place as an experiment conducted by God and Satan to s...

Bible Society stall packed at Middle East’s biggest book fair in Cairo

Ayman the calligrapher was incredibly busy in the Bible Society section of the Middle East’s largest and oldest book fair.

I’m an estimator in a ceramic tiling firm

I’m an estimator in a ceramic tiling firm. I’ve been a tiler for years. It’s all pretty new, working from my kitchen table. The first week was great. The rest hasn’t been. It’s our firm’s twentieth anniversary this year. We were planning ...

Making Bible stories memorable for children in Kenya

Joy Children’s Village was started 12 years ago by Nazareth Hospital, a Christian outreach just outside Nairobi. It cares for about 60 children with HIV/AIDS, providing a family-based environment for girls and boys who might be ill or orphaned or a...

Psalm 23-inspired prayer garden to open in the Lot valley, France in 2023

A private garden in the Lot Valley in southern France is set to open as a Psalm 23-inspired prayer garden next year. Owners Julia and Mark Broughton were inspired by Sarah Eberle’s Psalm 23 Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. ‘We saw the video...

 

 

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