The Love of the Divine Healer”- Canon Don T Ferguson - Chaplain of the Titoki Healing Centre.

This book is interesting for those with healing gifts & ministry. ‘ The picture we have of God in Christ is crucial in our pilgrimage to wholeness. It is evermore so if we would guide others,’ Ferguson says. Using prayers & texts to illustrate this ministry to wholeness, he discusses how he & his wife, Wilma’s work at Titoki set the foundations for a healing centre & community, near Whakatāne in 1976, where people in any need might stay & be helped toward the wholeness God desires for us all. This is a serious book for serious believers for whom ‘God’s promises cannot fail’. Luke 1- 37.

Iona library 707
Moana Press 1988.

Ever wondered why there are so many stories about Mental Health now a days? Generation Z (those born after 1995) in their teenage years (sometimes earlier) received a device that radically re-wired their brain and our interactions as a society - a smart phone!

In this book Jonathan Haidt explores why the mental health crisis has come about, how we have changed safety dynamics in society and offers some practical insights to parents, educators and policy makers on how to combat some of this in how we are bringing up our children.

While it is not a Christian book - there is a whole section contained in here about wisdom from the ancient practices of religion. A worthwhile read if you are keen to know more.

I have a copy that is currently circulating around a number of people, otherwise you can get it from the library. Super interesting!

​Henri Nouwen has written over 20 books and this is my second to review. With Holy Icons to gaze upon, he requests that we make our own study of each image and with gentle invitation allow heart to speak to heart. Symbolically significant, these images from early Greek and Russian iconography have spoken through the ages and ask us to seek God, Love and Faith through them. Contemplating the child of the Virgin of Vladimir is like discovering a light that was always there but could not be seen because of previous blindness.
This is a beautiful book, a Holy book and a privilege to read it. Thank you Henri Nouwen for drawing these images to our attention.

Ave Marie Press, Indiana, 1987
Parish library 695.

As John Orbell writes on the cover of- “This book is a rare gift … both as a guide to prayer and an answer to one.”

Richard Foster examines with a whole heart an invitation to Prayer drawing on saints from St Augustine, St John of the Cross to ordinary prayerful folk. At the end of each chapter, Foster rounds off his own prayers eg, ‘Dear Lord Jesus in my better moments I want nothing more than to be like you … Help me to see how good conformity to your way really is. In my seeking for you may I be found by you. I love you Lord - AMEN.’

​No one who reads ‘Prayer’ will remain unmoved. Even in the most difficult times we feel the ‘agony of prayerlessness’ this book will provide encouragement & the possibility of a profound experience of prayer will come within our reach.’
Thank you Lord for putting this book on my path.
​Thank you for Richard Foster. AMEN.

Publisher HODDER & Stoughton 2018.
Parish library 637.