Books
F W Boreham: A Profile
Hi Boreham-lovers STOP PRESS: October 2014: I am no longer trading in Borehams, but I do have some duplicate volumes of his books (no booklets at present) – [email protected] Best to put a notification request into ABE books or Alibris… ~~ The Rev Dr F W Boreham OBE: A Profile By the Rev T. Howard […]
F. W. Boreham: The Chalice of Life
Here’s another John Broadbanks Publishing (2008) contribution to our enjoyment of the wisdom of a wonderfully gifted wordsmith and pastor. In his Foreword Geoff Pound writes: ‘This book is a collection of five addresses that F W Boreham delivered at some major stages of life, and this is accompanied by two further essays in which […]
Books You Should Read
A Remedy for What Ails Us Harry T. Cook 10/17/08 Reading a collection of the late Norman Mailer’s voluminous correspondence in a recent issue of The New Yorker, I came upon a line in which he fretted that “in 50 years . . . there may not be anyone alive who’s read all of [Proust’s] […]
Richard Foster’s ‘Life with God’
Richard Foster, ‘Life with God: A life-transforming new approach to Bible reading’, Hodder & Stoughton, 2008. Richard Foster – a Quaker pastor and scholar – became a house-hold (or, rather, a church-wide) name in the late 1970s when his first major book, Celebration of Discipline, became a best-seller. In that work, he brilliantly summarized the […]
Spiritual Quotes
(sent by a liberal Roman Catholic friend): Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. ~ Rumi People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. ~Carl Gustav Jung You must understand the whole of life, not just one little […]
Garrison Keillor – The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times
10/8/2008 We are a stalwart and stouthearted people, and never more so than in hard times. People weep in the dark and arise in the morning and go to work. The waves crash on your nest egg and a chunk is swept away and you put your salami sandwich in the brown bag and get […]
The Shack
Received this today, commended by someone I respect highly: The Shack One book that was recommended to us was The Shack. (A shack is a small simple wooden house that is in poor condition.) It has created quite a stir among the Christian community in North America, and many non-Christians are reading it as well […]
F W Boreham, ‘Second Thoughts’
Dr F W Boreham was introduced to an international conference of pastors in 1936 as ‘the man whose name is on all our lips, whose books are on all our shelves and whose illustrations are in all our sermons.’ Frank Boreham lived in England, New Zealand and Australia between 1871 and 1959. He authored 55 […]
Boreham’s New Book ‘A Packet of Surprises’
Ten Reasons To Read Boreham’s New Book ‘A Packet of Surprises’ Have you got yourself a copy of the new F W Boreham book that has just been released? I think it is one of the most important books to read for these ten reasons: 1. This is the *first time the best sermons and […]
Doubt and Wisdom
Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts -Bertrand Russell
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