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This fourth and final instalment in the “Untaken” series covers the 12 months after the Rapture.

The now well-known characters endure the first year after the Rapture, the start of the seven-year Tribulation. The organisation known as the “One World League”, headed up by an anti-Christ figure, tries to hunt them down, whilst they put plans in place to become untraceable and to survive.

The book starts cleverly, offering enough background for the reader if you were jumping straight in to th...

The Gospel Gallery explores the divine narrative of redemption that is woven throughout the Old Testament, from Genesis to Malachi. Through this collection of biblically inspired poems, it highlights the prophetic glimpses and symbols that point to the coming Messiah.

The poems reflect on the lives of patriarchs, prophets, and kings whose stories foreshadow Christ’s ultimate fulfilment of Scripture, offering a deeper understanding of God’s unchanging plan of salvation. Whether new to the fait...

On the surface this may look like an ordinary, unremarkable family. But this story highlights that nobody is ordinary. Everyone has a rich and fascinating history that has formed them to be the people they are.

Benny has his unusual medical issues, but a massive open heart that welcomes the vulnerable and mirrors the love of Jesus. Janet has a broken heart, but has poured herself out completely to care for her son. The others are equally different, damaged, precious and valuable.

Janet dra...

This is an exceptional book. It deals with the difficult topic of the holocaust, not holding back on the horrors. Not in any graphic way, but rightly upsetting. It should disturb us.

The story is fictional, starting when the Nazis invade Salonika, Greece, and a German officer offers an eleven-year-old boy, known to be always truthful, a chance to save his family. His role is to tell his fellow Jewish residents to board trains to a place where he is told safety and protection prevail. But when...

This book is centred around a lovely quote from C.S. Lewis, that I had not come across before, but one that certainly deserves some deep thought. He said, “Joy is the serious business of heaven.”

Taking much of the teaching from the book of Philippians and the example of Paul, the essence of the teaching is about being intentional. Despite our circumstances and situations, if we want to, we can choose joy, we can choose to be wholly positive. Paul modelled the attitude and we can follow.

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We have possibly all read the Gospel passages and asked questions like : what happened to the legion of demons when the pigs leaped into a lake and drowned? Did the demons die too? If not, then where did they go? There were perhaps thousands of them, especially as the Gospels says there were about two thousand pigs.

Clearly Shawn has had similar questioning that has inspired him to come up with a story that follows that train of thought. Over the years legion may have had all sorts of influen...

This concept continues to fascinate me, offering a view of what the world would look like after the Rapture. With all believers gone, all children gone, no one left who would know or think that what had happened was from God.

In this third instalment of life after the ‘disappearances’, pitched as the time “12 weeks following the Rapture”, we continue to follow the story of the main protagonists, but this time through the eyes of a new character. A young man, an IT expert, who is following the...

Christine is clearly a skilled technical poet, which she couples with the ability to select beautifully crafted words and a deep understanding of the Bible stories and their context.

Silent No More: Bible Women Speak Up is a collection of 35 poems of varying styles and formats, including the odd haiku thrown in to the mix, taking the reader through a chronological journey in which women of the Bible tell their own stories.

Her deep understanding of the Bible and the fresh outlook on the ci...

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting Michael while we were both guests on the same podcast, Things Unseen, talking about the Penitent Thief. Having met him and heard just a small part of his story then, I just had to read his book to find out more.

Through his childhood, Michael wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps in the family trade – the dangerous world of organised crime. As a young adult, Michael’s criminal activities were funding a reckless lifestyle of drugs, sex and vio...

Seth rightly points out that for many people, being in the natural world, surrounded by beauty, is often a way for us to feel a peace and connection to God, the Creator. So his aim in this book is to help the reader experience the beauty of creation in a deeper way, offering a biblical understanding of what God is saying to us through the world He has created.

Seth has a poetic style of writing that glides along, effortlessly explaining and unfolding the logic and theology, highlighting the b...