![]() | Clouds and Glory: Prayers for the Church Year: Year A by David Adam
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.37 A superb book of Intercessionary prayers. Celtic, Poetic & written by some dude who lives on Holy Island - about as cool as prayers get! (Btw, is part of series covering 3 gospels- this 1 is Matthew.)
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![]() | Companion to the Revised Common Lectionary: Praying with the Scriptures v.10: Praying with the Scriptures Vol 10 by Neil Dixon
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £5.00 Good for general prayers (e.g. Adoration, Thanksgiving etc). Saves you a lot of writing them yourself & often does a better job (unless you are a poet...)
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![]() | The Message: New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs by Eugene H. Peterson
Buy used from: £1.33 Can make a bland reading into something exciting, with its eccentric turn of phrase. Occasionally fails though - you have been warned! ;)
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![]() | Life Application Study Bible
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £15.00 Also, on the Bible front, this edition has built in, simple commentary, which can be very eloquent and useful for sermonising...
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![]() | NIV Popular Bible: New International Version (Bible Niv) by International Bible Society
Buy used from: £2.83 Good, cheap Bibles for bringing / handing out or using in Church.
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![]() | New Bible Commentary: 21st Century Edition by D. A. Carson/R. T. France/Alec Motyer/Gordon J. Wenham (eds.)
Buy new: £25.49 / Used from: £11.61 A great modern commentary, with copious detail that never fails to spark ideas from a dry lectionary...
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![]() | NIV Complete Concordance
Buy used from: £15.86 Lastly, on the Bible front, this can be useful (though not essential) for the odd fact, or distinguishing gospels, etc. Apparently the first Concordance writer went mad!
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![]() | Purpose-driven Life: What on Earth am I Here For? by Rick Warren
Buy new: £5.17 / Used from: £0.01 Useful for sermons, or a whole season of sermons. A good read too & has a list of good Bible translations in the back.
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![]() | Searching Issues (Alpha) by Nicky Gumbel
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Answers most of the common questions & is good for giving to persistent questioners.
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![]() | Why Jesus? by Nicky Gumbel
Buy new: £0.50 / Used from: £0.01 Useful for evangelism, and if your church doesn't have one or two, it should....
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![]() | Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.10 A little dated, but still sound. Even found a militant atheist friend of mine quoting it on his Facebook profile!
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![]() | Complete Mission Praise: Music (Hymn Book)
Buy new: £26.39 / Used from: £27.50 Useful for singalongs at prayer meetings or just general modern songs (depending on the church, obviously...)
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![]() | One-Minute Prayers from the Bible by Hope Lyda
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.31 Good for bedtime reading (very short) & can be useful for making up prayers. There is also a series of them, which are all cheap, interesting and useful.
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![]() | Evidence Bible - Way of the Master: Irrefutable Evidence for the Thinking Mind
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £21.54 Moving onto Street Preaching, this is a useful tome for battling... just about anyone! Like Searching Issues, but broader and more gritty.
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![]() | God Doesn't Believe in Atheists by Ray Comfort
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £8.79 Another good Ray Comfort book - is good for taking on the secularists & has many good analogies (e.g. Gold in China).
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![]() | Darwin's Angel: An Angelic Riposte to "The God Delusion" by John Cornwell
Buy used from: £4.36 ... While on this subject, this is the best risposte to the God Delusion I've encountered.
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![]() | Is God a Delusion?: What is the Evidence? by Nicky Gumbel
Buy new: £3.67 / Used from: £1.43 Another good risposte, with a useful list of 'proofs' to justify belief.
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![]() | The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S Collins
Buy new: £29.95 / Used from: £10.44 A useful book, written by a prominent scientist. In audio book format as preachers always have libraries of books to read, and this bypasses the need to wear out your eyes! ;)
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![]() | The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 A code? In the Bible??? Written by an atheist who thinks aliens wrote the Bible, so is quite interesting...
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![]() | Bruce Almighty [DVD] [2003]
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.85 Yes - not a book, but invaluable as something to lend, or use in sections at a prayer meeting / for youth evangelism.
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![]() | The Passion of the Christ [DVD] [2004]
Buy used from: £0.54 Everyone's seen it, but still useful for the odd showing & can be powerful...
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![]() | Billy Graham: God's Ambassador [DVD] [2006] [US Import]
Buy used from: £9.81 An interesting life history, with some amazing clips & extras, including an excellent rendition of 'How Great thou Art' and a full sermon by the man himself!
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![]() | A Walk On The Wild Side: Life Journeys with Jeff Lucas
Recommended from a friend - shows that Preachers can have a certain cool grace about them yet still be effective...
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![]() | Ultimate Worship Collection Vol. 1 by Hillsong
Buy used from: £22.29 One of the best worship modern worship CD's I've heard AND, unlike most Hillsong CD's, is delivered from UK! Very useful for getting you in Preaching mode...
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![]() | Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton
Buy new: £5.28 / Used from: £2.49 What more eccentric, more profound book could I put in last? A true masterpiece with an amazing quote in the middle regarding Orthodoxy being paradoxically interesting...
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