EQUIP Book Club Feed

Pregnancy can be a time of mixed emotions as fear, excitement, thankfulness and uncertainty all mingle together. It can seem like everyone has advice to share, whether it’s a comment from a stranger at the shops, or wisdom from a valued friend. How do we sift through the ocean of information out there without becoming overwhelmed? How do we process the huge variety of experiences that women face when it comes to childbearing? Times of great joy for some and great suffering for others. Then there’s the haze of new parenthood and adjusting to all the changes to our body, time and identity. What does the Bible have to say and how should that shape our perspective?

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Ask any Christian suffering from anxiety, and we can quote this well-known nugget of a Bible verse to you word for word. Yet this verse can often feel more anxiety-inducing than comforting. Grimmond helps us see that rather than it standing over us with a frown and condemning our lack of faith, it is more akin to the gentle words that a mother might use with her young child after a nightmare.

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As a youth leader one of the most common questions (most recently asked at youth camp a couple of months ago) is “How can I feel closer to God?”.  You can know about God but what does a relationship with God actually look like? 

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Meg Is Not Alone is a story about a little girl, Meg, being accidentally left behind at church one Sunday. I was initially drawn to this book because my own children hate being left alone (even while on the toilet!), so being forgotten at church would be their worst nightmare.

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As Christians we struggle with the limits of our bodies and the crushing weight of the world’s expectations on us. We live in a fallen world. Sin has affected everything from our heads to our hearts, from our body chemistry to sociopolitical dynamics. Because of this we sometimes wrongly attribute all our problems to sin, when in fact they are often a matter of running up against the limits inherent in being finite creatures instead of God.

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So, you’ve taken on the position that men and women are both created in the image of God, equal before him in dignity and worth. You also understand that this doesn’t mean we are the same. The Bible teaches distinct roles for men and women. Now what? Maybe you’re someone who has accepted this complementarian position and are now trying to work out what this should look like practically in the local church context.

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Each year we try to pick one book for our EQUIP Top Picks that is geared towards those investigating Christianity. That might be you, or perhaps you are looking for a book you could confidently give to non-believing family or friends.

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This thought-provoking and practical book that challenges the traditional model of church leadership and discipleship is our classic read for 2023.

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If you’ve seen or experienced bad things in the world and you find yourself asking, “Why is the world like this?”, “Does God actually care about my suffering?” or “Will the world be this way forever?”, then you’re not alone in your doubts. And you needn’t look far for answers!

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It’s easy to find a reason to be angry: violence in Ukraine, senseless shootings at schools in America, the depravity of abuse in marriages or our churches, famine in war zones. But often it’s the personal anger that feels more real.

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What I love about this book is that I learned about so many women from centuries and centuries before. These women have had a significant impact on the lives of Christians around them, as well as influencing great teachers and theologians of their time.

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Using Catalina Echeverri’s joyful illustrations to help tell the story, this book tackles the topic of favouritism from James 2.

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