Sam Ferguson

Nine Marks of a Healthy Church

Church Leadership & Ministry

“Here are the timeless biblical truths that inform what the church is, how God creates and nurtures it, and how its pastors and members participate in that work. Nine Marks of a Healthy Church has helped me as a young pastor see through the fog of church growth models to the essential architecture of ecclesiology. This book is far and away the clearest and most biblical account of what the church is that I’ve come across. Most importantly, the vision of the church displayed here is so God-centered that it places the magnificent responsibility of sustaining and leading it back on the right shoulders, namely, his.”

The Discipline of Intimacy

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“There is, deep in the heart of every human being (though we do not always recognise it), a desperate longing for God. In this extraordinary book, Charlie Cleverly – himself a man of prayer with sometimes painful honesty, as well as demonstrating a profound experience of the need among young people today, even in Oxford’s “secular winter” – shows that a life of prayer is within reach of absolutely everybody. The Discipline of Intimacy ought to be widely read, especially by those who think that God is not for them.’ Fr Nicholas King SJ, Tutor in New Testament, University of Oxford ‘Charlie Cleverly understands that closeness to God is the chief desire and only haven of the human heart. Rooted in Scripture and drawing from saints both ancient and modern, his book The Discipline of Intimacy is a wise pastor’s roadmap for how varied and rich practices of prayer are the pathway bringing us near unto God. For the new believer or the mature Christian, I heartily recommend this new edition!”

Tim Keller on the Christian Life

Christian Living

“Matt Smethurst has done the church a great service by distilling, in ten insightful chapters, the core convictions that shaped Tim Keller’s life and ministry. The reader discovers what made Keller’s ministry so impactful: His convictions, along with his humility, were formed in the fires of pastoral work. Tim Keller on the Christian Life is a faith-enriching reminder, through the legacy and example of a beloved pastor, that Christianity is far more than a religious idea. It is the most satisfying and beautiful way of life.”