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Are you looking for a gift for someone who loves classic authors? Perhaps you are interested in finding some deeper Christian life books split into bite-size pieces for daily consumption? Then these 365 daily devotional books from Watchman Nee and Amy Carmichael are just what the doctor ordered!

Amanda Lutes, Take Note Editor

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Jeff Lucas has a wry, witty and insightful style of writing that is brilliantly reflected in his daily reading notes. This third collection will be a gem!

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Welcome to Take Note!

Our theme for this issue is ‘Revealing Jesus’ with books about Jesus, and His life as well as books about how we reveal Him to others through our own lives, characters, actions & reactions. We pray that these personally selected resources enable you to reflect Him better in your daily lives.

Amanda Lutes, Editor

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The Incarnation… ever wondered what it is? What it means? Day by day through Advent discover afresh how the ‘Word was made flesh’ and how this can impact you today.

Christmas is a time of joy, goodwill, and delighting in the age-old story of Jesus. This small booklet takes a look at some of the paradoxes and wonders of the first Christmas.

A great giveaway to individuals, in Christmas cards, at Carol Services and other Christmas events.

by Trystan Owain Hughes ISBN: 9780857462657

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The Power of a Whisper: Hearing God, Having the Guts to Respond

by Bill Hybels ISBN: 9780310318224

Best-selling author, Bill Hybels, is back with another book that’s sure to change your life — if you let it. In The Power of a Whisper, the vision is cast for what life can look like when God’s followers choose to hear from Heaven as they navigate life on earth.

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It’s about helping individuals, small groups and churches not only to engage with the Bible on a daily basis, but to read it in its entirety. By using the Every Day with Jesus One Year Bible (NIV 2011 edition) we can read the same passages as each other every day.

Simple, pick up your copy of the Every Day with Jesus One Year Bible from Take Note, and log on to www.onebible.co.uk to share your journey. To get your church involved visit www.onebible.co.uk/church

Onebible.co.uk We’ve created a place where people can talk and blog about their daily experiences. It will be an opportunity to be encouraged by one another and to be reminded that there are many of us on this journey together. Anyone can get involved and create a written or video blog about their experiences. Just log on to www.onebible.co.uk to get started.

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‘You are probably quite right in thinking that you will never see a miracle done: you are probably equally right in thinking that there was a natural explanation of anything in your past life which seemed, at the first glance, to be ‘rum’ or ‘odd’. God does not shake miracles into Nature at random as if from a peppercaster. They come on great occasions: they are found at the great ganglions of history... If your own life does not happen to be near one of those great ganglions, how should you expect to see one?... Unless you live near a railway, you will not see trains go past your windows. How likely is it that you or I will be present when a peace-treaty is signed, when a great scientific discovery is made?...That we should see a miracle even less likely. Nor, if we understand, shall we be anxious to do so... Do not, I earnestly advise you, demand an ocular proof unless you are already perfectly certain that it is not forthcoming.’ – from Miracles (written in 1947)

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Collins’ Editor Andrew Lyon introduces this anniversary publication

here are very few people in the world who have helped shape Christian thought quite so profoundly and significantly as C. S. Lewis. Still today, The Chronicles of Narnia are read by each generation of children, and his adult, spiritual writings such as Mere Christianity remain ‘must reads’ for students of theology, and others exploring the role of faith in their lives.

I find I am constantly astounded by how relevant and eternal some of the truths which Lewis illuminates continue to be. His writing remains fresh and approachable, and his clarity of thought, coupled with the way you find yourself nodding, as you see yourself within the pages, combine to make C. S. Lewis a truly spiritual read.

On 22 November this year, it will be 50 years since Lewis’s death, and in a special service in Westminster Abbey, he will be honoured with a memorial stone in Poets’ Corner.

As his publisher, to mark the anniversary, we have produced this new edition of A Year with C. S. Lewis, which provides a short excerpt from one of his writings (such as that above) each day. If you are discovering Lewis for the first time, or re-visiting him after years spent elsewhere, I hope this volume will help you taste his spirituality amid the daily routine; as always, with Lewis, the rewards are great.

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Beloved Evangelist Presents His Life’s Work Billy Graham presents the core message that has guided his life and calling for over 70 years, the hope of salvation.

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