These are days when God's love is much spoken about, but to say that God has wrath or can be wrathful is taboo in many pulpits and pews. The idea of divine wrath is relegated to ages when peop1e believed in a grim and judgmental God, and not in the splendidly loving God we have discovered in this more liberal day. The writer is not out simply to defend the idea of God having wrath, but to break through superficial thinking on the subject to show that unless we understand God's wrath we will never really arrive at His love. Peter Forsyth once said, 'Nothing will satisfy the conscience of man, which does not first satisfy the conscience of God'. A person with a purified conscience is a happy person. God's wrath is against that which maims and demeans humanity. The God of long-suffering does not have a short fuse. His wrath is not 'off the cuff'. It always presses on in the interests of love and a peaceful conscience for the human race.

The Wrath of His Love is an important book. It is a small book which deals with a large principle. It will be worth the attention it demands. For some it will be the discovery of God's love.

This booklet goes straight to the heart of the matter. Christ with and by the Father has poured out his Spirit for these last days; the days which began at Pentecost and will conclude in the hour of Christ's coming and presence. Without his pouring out of the Spirit we cannot begin to do a thing. This outpouring alters everything.

The author (John Dunn) urges readers to take seriously the dire necessity to bring one's mind, body and conduct under the authority of Scripture. This affects all areas of living including our attitude to work, the use of time and money and right conduct within our relationships. Christian self-discipline is shown to be fundamental not only to a right perspective on life here and now, but pivotal in setting our goals so that we will be in step with God's ultimate intention to bring us into glory as his sons and daughters who reflect the character of his Son, Jesus Christ.

Running the Race is a call to Christians to get back to biblical basics in the areas of personal self-discipline, holy living, being disciples of Christ and having right goals.

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NCTM have a limited supply of this excellent book.

Professor Torrance in this remarkable series of sermons not only opens up a much neglected book, but succeeds in giving it a startlingly contemporaneous significance; the cobwebs of prejudice are blown away and the ancient pages speak to the here and now with the surprising freshness of discovery.  This is expository preaching at its best; at once faithful to Holy Scripture and at the same time relevant for our day and generation.