Church Life & Pastoral CareContemporaryIntroductory
Looking at Mission from Acts (1988) by James Hudson Taylor III, great-grandson of Hudson Taylor, missionary to Taiwan and founding president of China Evangelical Seminary: God's mission from Genesis to Malachi, the Great Commission, and the church's advance from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth in Acts — a call to mission for the Chinese church.
J.I. Packer's Knowing God (1973), one of the best-loved theological books of the twentieth century: why knowing God matters most, a meditation on his attributes, and what it means that God is for us — theology that turns knowledge into worship.
J.C. Ryle (1816–1900), first Bishop of Liverpool, on the duties of Christian parents (1888): from Proverbs 22:6, plain and searching counsel on training children in the way they should go — with patience and love, in Scripture and prayer, by example, and with constant prayer for them.