| | | Please read below about the new book by Lieut-Colonel Gilbert Ellis (retired officer who worships Boscombe Salvation Army).
This is just an announcement for my new book on hope, entitled, "What a Hope", which will be published by the Army. It will be on sale from Easter and the retail price is £3.95
David Dalziel has written a description of the book as follows:
Hope, the second of the trinity of Christian qualities which Paul highlights so powerfully in 1 Corinthians 13, doesn’t receive the same amount of attention as its fellow virtues of faith and love. Part of the reason for this, says Lieut-Colonel Gilbert Ellis, is the very close relationship between faith and hope so close, indeed, that it can sometimes even be confused with faith itself. In this book, the colonel puts hope centre stage.
In a series of short, manageable chapters the author explores different facets of hope, using illustrations from life in a down-to-earth manner. Sometimes he startles us into thought, as when he writes: What is the first thing we stop doing when we become Christians? Sinning? No, we stop hoping! Hope ceases to be something we do and becomes something we possess.
Biblical quotations abound, and new insights can be gleaned from the novel approach that Colonel Ellis takes to familiar stories and sayings.
‘Think about it,’ he writes, ‘if anything has the capacity to disappoint, it must be hope. It’s in the very nature of the word’. Yet with Paul (Romans 5:5), he can also claim that ‘Hope does not disappoint us’ as he grapples with its significance in the Christian life. And we receive the assurance that, however high our hopes, they still fall short of the glory that God, because of his great love, has prepared for us. What a hope!
To order a copy, please email here. | |  | |
