The Bible Reader 2025, Collective, ed. LLB
The League for Bible Reading has just released the 2025 edition of its guide for daily meditation, commented only by contributors from French-speaking Africa. It is not a guide to reading the Bible in a year, but rather intended for daily meditation on selected texts from the Old and New Testaments. The editorial choice focused on passages taken from Numbers, Judges, Job, Psalms, Jeremiah, Hosea, Matthew, Acts, Galatians and Hebrews.
A guide that will delight people who are short of time but want to nourish, day after day, a meditation guided by other Christians and participate in daily communion. For adolescents, the LLB offers you RDV the book 2025, a guide which also explores biblical passages, but with commentary for a younger audience. A smartphone application is even made available.
Experiencing Christmas Time, Emily Hunter McGowin, ed. Excelsis
Published at the same time as Living the Season of Advent, written by the American pastor Tish Harrison Warren, this small 150-page work aims to “celebrate life and light” by “rediscovering (…) all the biblical, historical, spiritual, family and traditional [de Noël]”. Associate professor of theology and pastor in the United States, Emily Hunter McGowin offers a meditation which takes into account not only the biblical texts relating to Christmas, but also “on the diversity of resources of the Christian tradition”. After a historical context presenting the origins of Christmas and the different theories attached to it, the author encourages in particular to prefer to meet in Church rather than betting everything on gifts, by becoming aware of the full importance of what Christmas commemorates. To practice generosity, to turn our eyes towards God. A book which admirably opens the season with erudition.
Christ in the mirror of our lives, Michel Barlow, ed. Olivetan
Delivering a personal testimony with a universal vocation: this is the ambition of theologian Michel Barlow, a former Catholic who became a Protestant around fifteen years ago. Through these pages, the man who was also editor-in-chief of the Christian Unity magazine offers his own “spiritual itinerary”, which he intends to resonate in the hearts of each of his readers by inviting them to draw parallels with their lives of faith.
Sixteen chapters of less than ten pages to divide his life into slices of faith: and if Michel Barlow announces from the outset that he does not want to be accused of settling scores with the Catholic Church, it is clear, in the first chapters, that he does not carry the “magical religion” in his heart. However, these remarks remain anecdotal and the author takes his reader on the road that led him to become the Christian he is today. A touching testimony written in a beautiful style, with a touch of humor.
Becoming a disciple, Florent Varak and Christine Picq, ed. Key
“The first twelve steps” to discipleship, not “the twelve boxes to check.” Since discipleship is a continuous journey, it is important to adopt reflexes to avoid falling; This is what pastor and podcaster Florent Varak and Christine Picq, who work on developing evangelization resources, offer. “Walking” is the whole program: “With God, through challenges, with others”, the three parts of the work are themselves divided into four very concise chapters and intimately linked to each other.
It is a very colorful and dynamic book offered by Clé editions; the texts are accessible to any reader and organized with precision: for each of the four chapters of the three parts, we find a short fictional story, a biblical text, meditation questions, a concrete application and tools to go further. Enough to nourish the reflection of anyone who wishes to do more for God.
At the table with the Bible, Jean-Luc Gadreau, ed. Bibli’O
You’re not dreaming: it’s a cookbook. Because Jean-Luc Gadreau’s challenge is to offer forty recipes which each correspond to a book or a group of Books of the Bible. For this Protestant artist and radio host, cooking acts above all on emotions and we find this strong link in the Bible: the meal is the time of sharing, festivity and friendship.
The book is organized like a classic cookbook: you will discover forty recipes with ingredients and instructions, but also a little biblical reflection for each recipe. The ambition of this book can be contained in this single verse: “They beheld God and then they ate and drank.”
Bible & popcorn, Vincent Miéville, ed. Bibli’O
The former president of the Union of Free Evangelical Churches of France is a film buff: if Bible & Popcorn stands out among the books of Vincent Miéville, who has contributed a lot to theological works, it will not surprise those who follow already this pastor’s “cinema” blog.
Vincent Miéville explores the links between the Bible and the seventh art. By showing the full spiritual scope of cinema, he takes a firm stand against the sacrifice of art for the benefit of the message in Christian cinema, demonstrates how the Bible inspires atheist directors or how “Star Wars” copies a biblical pattern, for example . A beautiful study carried out with rigor and passion, and which will please all types of audiences.
The Chosen: 40 days with Jesus, Collective, ed. Vida
We no longer present the successful series “The Chosen” (“The Chosen One” or “Les Elus”), followed worldwide by tens of millions of viewers and whose fourth season will be released in cinemas in April 2025. And we knows the love of the Christian gloss! Since this book, co-written by the director of “The Chosen”, offers a meditation on the Bible while watching the series. Publicity stunt that rides a wave of popularity of the franchise or a real desire to edify? In any case, this little book will delight viewers who have no one to talk to once the credits roll on the screen and those who always want to go further in reflection and discussion. meditation. Built like a small guide with short chapters, the work offers, for each of the forty days, a meditation, a subject of prayer and some questions for reflection.
The Solution is not in you, Nadia Pocal, EBLC
This novel is the first by Nadia Pocal, who was interested in personal development before meeting Jesus Christ. In this autofiction, the novelist features Clara, whose coach tells her that you have to realize your dreams and find the solution within yourself to be happy. (Un)fortunately for Clara, this will not go as planned.
In a current and accessible style, Nadia Pocal delivers a poignant testimony in the form of fiction. The theme of personal development being hotly topical and the subject of numerous accusations of sectarian excesses, the novel is a beautiful response by proposing a return to the essential and to true hope.
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