Mission Statement

In classical sacrifices, the people get the good bits, and the gods get the refuse, the bits that would get thrown out otherwise.

Not our God. Leviticus (particularly Leviticus 3) describes the sacrifices that our LORD demanded from His people of Israel. God gets the kidneys, the tail, and all the fat. He gets the prime steak, He gets the best.

Today we do not literally give sacrifices of animals. For us the ultimate sacrifice has been made through our Lord, Christ Jesus. But should always be our ambition to do the same thing - to offer God the best of what we have, to offer Him the fat, and not the smoke and bones.

Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Books in 2012


January = 22 in total

- The Crucified Life (AW Tozer)

- Hitting the Holy Road (Stuart Coulton)

- Guns of Thunder (Douglas Bond)

- King's Cross (Timothy Keller)

- The Ever-Loving Truth (Voddie Baucham)

- Guns of the Lion (Douglas Bond)

- Why Pro-Life (Randy Alcorn)

- Evolution: The Lie (Ken Ham)

- Guns of Providence (Douglas Bond)

- The House of Hope (Elizabeth Gifford)

- God's Artic Adventurer (Constance Savery)

- Learning of God: Readings From Amy Carmichael (edited Stuart & Brenda Blanch)

- Green Leaf in Drought (Isobel Kuhn)

- The Radical Disciple (John Stott)

- A Christian's Pocket Guide to Isalm (Patrick Sookhdeo)

- In the Gap (David Bryant)

- A Passion for the Fatherless: Developing a God-Centred Ministry to Orphans (Daniel J Bennett)

- Good Friends are Hard to Find (Fred Frankel)

- Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and its Fashionable Enemies (David Bentley Hart)

- The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney (audio book - Victoria Botkin)

- An American Plague (Jim Murphy)

- The English Civil War: A People's History (Diane Purkiss)



February = 21 in total

- Adventures in Prayer (Catherine Marshall)

- Through Russian Snows (G.A. Henty)

- Miranda the Explorer (James Mayhew)

- Total Money Makeover (Dave Ramsey)

- The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time (edited David H Lowenherz)

- Christina Rossetti (Everyman's Poetry)

- Blessing or Curse: You Can Choose (Derek Prince)

- Uncompromising (Hannah Farver)

- Did I Kiss Marriage Goodbye (Carolyn McCulley)

- Back To Jerusalem (Three Chinese Church Leaders with Paul Hattaway)

- Back-Stage (Lorna Hill)

- Family-Integrated Church (J Mark Fox)

- Surprised by Joy (C.S. Lewis)

- Intellectual Schizophrenia: Culture, Crisis and Education (R.J. Rushdoony)

- Crimes Against Logic (Jamie Whyte)

- Your People Shall Be My People (Don Finto)

- Draw Real Hands (Lee Hammond)

- Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret (Dr and Mrs Howard Taylor)

- Hollywood Be Thy Name (Ray Comfort)

- Feminine Appeal: Seven Virtues of a Godly Wife and Mother (Carolyn Mahaney)

- Father of Nobody's Children (Norman Wymer)



March = 7 in total

- Stones of Fire (Isobel Kuhn)

- Another Hand on Mine (William J Petersen)

- When Love is Not Enough (Nancy L Thomas)

- Hostage Lands (Douglas Bond)

- Five Women of the English Reformation (Paul F M Zahl)

- Thanks a Million (Ray Comfort, Kirk Cameron)

- The Penderwicks on Gardam Street (Jeanne Birdsall)



April = 14 in total

- Young Children and Picture Books (Mary Renck Jalongo)

- Ten P's in a Pod (Arnold Pent III)

- The Bible (read over Lent)

- Montesorri Today (Paula Polk Lillard)

- Te Whariki: Early Childhood Curriculum

- The Price of Stones (Twesigye Jackson Kaguri)

- Experiencing Reggio Emilia: Implications for Pre-school provision (Lesley Abbot and Cathy Nutbrown)

- In Freedom's Cause (G.A. Henty)

- Effective Soul-Winning and Evangelism (Reinhard Bonnke)

- The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place (E.L. Konigsburg)

- The Dragon and the Raven (G.A. Henty)

- Carney's House Party (Maud Hart Lovelace)

- Winona's Pony Cart (Maud Hart Lovelace)

- Iggie's House (Judy Blume)



May = 18 in total

- Thinking Spiritually (John Owen)

- Jonathan Park: The Adventure Begins (Audio book - Vision Forum)

- Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus: Volume Five (Michael L Brown)

- With Lee in Virginia (G.A. Henty)

- Bound for Oregon (Jean Van Leeuwen)

- Ballet Shoes (Noel Streatfeild)

- Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (Maud Hart Lovelace)

- Heaven to Betsy (Maud Hart Lovelace)

- Besty in Spite of Herself (Maud Hart Lovelace)

- Betsy was a Junior (Maud Hart Lovelace)

- Betsy and Joe (Maud Hart Lovelace)

- The Outlaws of Sherwood (Robin McKinley)

- We Are One Village (Nikki Lovell)

- Mary Bunyan: A Tale of Religious Persecution and Heroic Faith (Sallie R Ford)

- The Princess and the Goblin (George MacDonald)

- The Woman Who Changed Her Brain (Barbara Arrowsmith-Young)

- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E Frankweiler (E.L. Konigsburg)

- Paul Brand: Helping Hands (Janet and Geoff Benge)



June = 19

- D.L. Moody: Bringing Souls to Christ (Janet and Geoff Benge)

- Hand in Hand: Crafting with Kids (Jenny Doh)

- Time Sweep (Valerie Weldrick)

- A Tangled Web (LM Montgomery)

- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carrol)

- Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)

- Brotherband: The Invaders (John Flanagan)

- Sister Freaks (Rebecca St James)

- The Wounded Spirit (Frank Peretti)

- Fifty Famous Stories Retold (James Baldwin)

- The Little Quaker (Susan Moodie)

- Exposing the Dark Work of Abortion (John Piper)

- The Secret School (Avi)

- Praying the New Testament (Elmer Towns)

- Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)

- Good Wives (Louisa May Alcott)

- Sketches of the Covenanters (C.J. McFeeters)

- A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

- The Pursuit of God (A.W. Tozer)



July = 14

- God's Missionary (Amy Carmichael)

- The Beauty of Modesty (David Vaughan and Diane Vaughan)

- Castle Diary: The Medieval Journal of Tobias Burgess (Richard Platt)

- David Brainerd: The Apostle to the North American Indians (Jesse Page)

- Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Amy Chua)

- Run Fat B!tch Run (Ruth Fields)

- Little Men (Louisa May Alcott)

- The Gabriel Method (Jon Gabriel)

- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)

- At the Altar (L.M. Montgomery)

- Christ-Centered Worship (Bryan Chapell)

- The Enchanted April (Elizabeth Von Arnim)

- How to Train (Hal Higdon)

- Dancing in the Glory of Monsters (Jason K Stearns)



August = 10

- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)

- The Explict Gospel (Matt Chandler)

- Betsy and the Great World (Maud Hart Lovelace)

- Spent? End Exhaustion and Feel Well Again (Frank Lipman)

- Betsy's Wedding (Maud Hart Lovelace)

- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Catherynne M Valente)

- Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters (Courtney E Martin)

- G-Force: The Ultimate Guide to Your Best Body Ever (Gunnar Peterson)

- Working in the Reggio Way (Julianne P Wurm)

- Runner's World Best Competative Running (ed Adam Bean)



September = 26

- Dare Me (Megan Abbott)

- The Longevity Project (Howard S Friedman, Leslie R Martin)

- Running Within (Jerry Lynch, Warren Scott)

- Fitness Running (Richard L Brown and Joe Henderson)

- The 4-Hour Body (Timothy Ferriss)

- Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions (Paul Mason)

- Run Your Butt Off! (editors of Runners World)

- 3 Months to Your First 5K (Dave Kuehls)

- The Running Times Guide to Breakthrough Running (editors of Running Times)

- How To Run (Paula Radcliffe)

- Marathon Running From Beginner to Elite (Richard Nerurkar)

- The Forsaken (Lisa M Stasse)

- Brain Rules (John Medina)

- 4 months to a 4-Hour Marathon (David Kuehls)

- The Complete Guide to Cheerleading (Christine Farina & Courtney A Clark)

- The Hunger Games Companion (Lois H Gresh)

- Valiant (Holly Black)

- Prairie School (Lois Lenski)

- Calico Captive (Elizabeth George Speare)

- We Make Dolls! (Jenny Doh)

- Yonie Wondernose (Marguerite de Angeli)

- The Prairie Thief (Melissa Wiley)

- Lifeblood: How to Change the World One Dead Mosquito at a Time (Alex Perry)

- Including the Gifted and Talented (ed Chris M M Smith)

- Handbook of Gifted Education (Nicholas Colangelo, Gary A Davis)

- Gifted Young Children (Louise Porter)



October = 20

- The Blue Castle (L.M. Montgomery)

- An Imperfect Offering: Dispatches From the Medical Frontline (James Orbinski)

- Katharina Von Bora: A Reformation Life (Rudolf K Markwald, Marilynn Morris Markwald)

- The Penderwicks at Point Mouette (Jeanne Birdsall)

- The Sweet Poison Quit Plan (David Gillespie)

- Ballet Beautiful (Mary Helen Bowers)

- How to Create Your Ultimate Body and Keep It (Tiffany Hall)

- 59 seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot (Richard Wiseman)

- Emily of Deep Valley (Maud Hart Lovelace)

- David Copperfield (Audiobook) (Charles Dickens)

- Jane of Lantern Hill (L.M. Montgomery)

- Meet the Austins (Madeleine L'Engle)

- Time of the Eagle (Sherryl Jordan)

- Women, Gender and Radical Religion in Early Modern Europe (ed Andrew Colin Gow)

- First Among Sequels (Jasper Fforde)

- One of Our Thursdays is Missing (Jasper Fforde)

- Silhouette (Thalia Kalkipsakis)

- The Exceptional Brian and How it Changed the World (Robert M Kaplan)

- The Moon By Night (Madeleine L'Engle)

- Brotherband: The Hunters (John Flanagan)



November = 16

- The Hunt (Andrew Fukuda)

- A Life in Frocks (Kelly Doust)

- How I Live Now (Meg Rosoff)

- The Woman Who Died a Lot (Jasper Fforde)

- Free: Adventures on the Margins of a Wasteful Society (Katharine Hibbert)

- Spindlers (Lauren Oliver)

- Just Listen (Sarah Dessen)

- Apple Bough (Noel Streatfeild)

- Notes From the Teenage Underground (Simmone Howell)

- The Painted Garden (Noel Streatfeild)

- Movements that change the World (Steve Addison)

- Promise Song (Linda Holeman)

- Reckless Abandon (David Sitton)

- Pilipinto's Happiness (Valerie Elliot Shepard)

- Ministries of Mercy (Timothy J Keller)

- The Moondene Prince (Christopher Gray)



December = 9

- The View From Saturday (E.L. Konigsburg)

- In the Wake of the Plague

- How To Look Expensive (Andrea Pomerantz Lustig)

- Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement (Kathryn Joyce)

- Return of the Black Death (Susan Scott and Christopher Duncan)

- The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)

- Blasphemy: The True, Heart-Breaking Story of the Woman Sentenced to Death Over A Cup of Water (Asia Bibi)

- Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness (Scott Jurek)

- The Paelo Answer (Loren Cordain)

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