THE BOOMING BARITONE BELL OF ENGLAND – E. G. Romine

“The Booming Baritone Bell of England” by E. G. Romine richly captures the passionate spirit and enthusiastic zeal of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, whose vibrant open-air preaching revealed his true passion for truth and his inherent love of people. Spurgeon’s open-air preaching in his pastoral training had a deeply formative role in Spurgeon’s evangelistic preaching, emboldening him with a holy boldness like never before. This strikingly bold initiative in such passionate preaching empowered the spread and growth of the Gospel, reflecting on a time when people went all out for the Gospel, to find the one lost sheep.

The life and ministry of Charles Spurgeon is a mine filled with glorious gems that equip the Church with a wealth of instructive inspiration. This book challenges every believer to live more prayerfully, zealous for the winning of souls. All Christians will glean precious gems from Spurgeon’s practical, down-to-earth, open-air preaching and from his preaching of Christ crucified to save lost souls. Vast crowds heard Spurgeon’s sermons in open air meetings, which greatly impacted his ministry to spark a zeal for the lost and to see souls saved.

May this exceptional work on open-air preaching, this magnificent labor of love for the Prince of Peace, by the prince of preachers, cause the Booming Baritone Bell to resound reverberatingly in the invigorating atmosphere of our contemporary landscapes. This inspiring book can be read by everyone, historians, scholars and all who have a heart for evangelistic preaching. It will undoubtedly bless the hearts of all who read it.

RESISTING THE BONHOEFFER BRAND: A Life Reconsidered – Charles Marsh

In “Resisting the Bonhoeffer Brand – A Life Reconsidered,” Charles Marsh explores the relationship between theology and biography, fervently affirming that Bonhoeffer scholarship needs the revitalizing energies and spirited debates of the life and legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, revisited in its entirety and wholly uncensored in any form. In this book are soul-stirring reflections on the radical meaning of history and biography from one of the most brilliant, extremely fearless and outspoken theological minds of our times. Charles Marsh, with his historian’s eye and novelist’s pen, crafts a mind-revealing vision of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the man who bravely and boldly stood up for his convictions, fearing none. Charles Marsh eloquently reinterprets Bonhoeffer’s extraordinary life, vividly depicting the latent passions that often simmer undetected but everpresent beneath a scholar’s painstakingly laborious tasks.

SURVIVING JEWEL – Mitri Raheb and Mark A. Lamport

“Surviving Jewel” by Mitri Raheb and Mark A. Lamport is the global story of Christianity in the Middle East, where the Christian church was born and grew for centuries. Christianity is now a marginalized jewel, surviving at great perilous cost, within a turbulent politico-religious conflict. The enduring story of Christianity also accommodates interchange and cooperation. “Surviving Jewel” details the history of the church through the past two thousand years, a story described as “a lost history” by Philip Jenkins. The church of the Middle East is revealed as a precious jewel, still catching the light, sparkling in all its radiant glory. This book has an impressive historico-geographical sweep, highlighting Christian diversity, in a clear-sighted analysis of a journey from past to present, a clarion call to delve into the culture, history, and theology of Middle Eastern Christianity.