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This is a book that every pastor and every theological student should own. It is a collection of sermons written by well known pastors including Tim Keller and John Piper and other not so well known pastors.

Science and God is the latest release in the Little Black Books series, a series of short, but informative, guidebooks aimed at those in their late teens/early twenties. They're designed to answer some of the tricky questions of the Christian faith and this one is no exception. It sets out to answer simply some of the questions of science and faith which are especially pertinent given the rise of the ‘New Atheists'.

Rating himself as already over the hill and suitably qualified at the age of 76, four years ago John Chapman wrote Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life. Now he has followed it up with another book on the central fact of the Christian message - the cross and the resurrection of Jesus, two aspects of a single saving event.

What does it mean to be a "genuine Christian"? How do you know your faith is real? What might cause you to stumble and walk-away? It's these and other questions Higher Ground, the directorial debut of Vera Farmiga, raises.

I first encountered the material in this book as a podcast a few years ago, shortly after it was delivered by Don Carson and John Piper at a conference in the United States. Two years later and it's been turned into a short, but helpful, book with some extra reflections from both authors. The key premise of The Pastor as Scholar & The Scholar as Pastor is simply this: scholarship and pastoral affection are not mutually exclusive. In fact, as both Carson and Piper argue, they should always work hand in hand.