The Bookroom
Opening hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays 10am-4pm
A warm welcome is offered to all members of the local Sevenoaks community, as well as those visiting the area from further afield.
Our Bookshop comprises a broad and frequently updated selection of gospel-centred Christian literature; including Bibles, Bible commentaries and study guides, general Christian texts and selected titles for children of all ages – all at competitive prices. We also stock an extensive range of cards.
At various times throughout the year, we are able to offer carefully selected and attractively priced book promotions.
Please contact the Bookroom for any enquiries or assistance.
Book Recommendations
You can find other book recommendations at the St Nicholas page on the Good Book Shop or 10ofthose websites:
The following books are available to purchase from our bookroom:
Women
Women of the Word – Jen Wilkin
Jen Wilkin’s acknowledges how easy it is for us to just dip in to the Bible and in the most winsome, warm and encouraging way calls us to be women who go deeper in their study of scripture. She says that this book will equip you to engage in God’s Word in a way that trains your mind and transforms your heart and that was certainly my experience as she took me by the hand and showed me wonderful things!
– Andrea Trevenna
Children & Families
Beginner’s Gospel Story Bible
We use this in our Preschoolers group on Sundays. It traces God’s promises through the Bible in a simple, clear and well-illustrated way. At the end of each story is a question to talk about that will help you and your child take the story to heart.
– Brenda Beckett
Jesus Storybook Bible
This is suited to children aged 5-8 and shows how every story in the Bible whispers Jesus’ name. It shows children that the central message of the Bible is about a good and loving God who came to rescue us.
– Brenda Beckett
Thoughts to Make your Heart Sing
This is a devotional book that has been used by all ages to help us consider the kind of God we are loved by and inspire our hearts to sing with joy in response!
– Brenda Beckett
Give them Grace – Fitzpatrick & Thompson
The subtitle says it all: Dazzling your kids with the love of Jesus. It is easy as parents to be ruled by law and focussed on the outward behaviour of our children. This book helps you to model grace to them as we all receive grace from God and live in the light of this gift!
– Brenda Beckett
Parenting – 14 Principles that can radically change your family by Paul Tripp
Parents are all too familiar with (worn out by?) the prevailing culture that tells us to do A, B or C to achieve X, Y or Z. This means we are never far from self-justifying laws or rules. Raising children can absorb so much attention in this regard whether over behaviour, or technology or achievement in every arena, that the one word we struggle to believe, let along implement in raising our children is grace. Paul Tripp deeply believes that to parent by grace first means receiving grace as a parent. This book is both saturated in the gospel and as practical as you will find anywhere.
– Jamie Read
Do Great Things For God Series – Written by St Nics’ own Laura Caputo-Wickham, these books introduce children to Christians from history including Corrie ten Boom, Gladys Aylward, and C.S. Lewis. They show how God is at work through all sorts of different people in different ways.
– Sophie-Ann Rebbettes
Very Best Bible Stories Series – Colourful and engaging retellings of key Bible stories for pre-schoolers. They show children God’s power, sovereignty, and faithfulness through in these Bible stories.
– Sophie-Ann Rebbettes
Training Young Hearts Series – A series of board books for pre-schoolers that looks at why God made our hands, eyes, mouths, etc.. It beautifully shows us how Jesus loves and serves us and addresses the heart attitude behind behaviour and how the gospel of grace shapes these young hearts.
– Sophie-Ann Rebbettes
Reach
Scattering Seeds of Hope – Jeremy Marshall
A warm, practical, and hope-filled guide to sharing the gospel in everyday life. Jeremy Marshall helps us meet people where they are and gently point them to Jesus with wisdom and compassion.
– John Khnana
Honest Evangelism – Rico Tice
Rico Tice speaks with refreshing honesty about the challenges of sharing Jesus in a sceptical culture. He acknowledges the reality of opposition but also highlights the growing spiritual hunger that makes gospel conversations both possible and urgent.
– John Khnana
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God – J. I. Packer
A theological classic that combines depth with gospel clarity, this book reminds us that God’s sovereignty fuels rather than hinders evangelism. Packer’s big view of God will inspire you to pray boldly, speak faithfully, and treasure Jesus.
– John Khnana
Nurture
Side by Side – Edward Welch
I loved this book! In the two halves of the book Edward helps us think through the implications of the Biblical truths that as God’s people we are all both ‘Needy’ and ‘Needed’. I found the book clear, refreshing and humbling and was hugely encouraged by the thought that ‘we can do this!’ We can love each other well and walk and grow together as brothers and sisters in Christ as we do so in Christ’s strength out of the overflow of His great love for us.
– Andrea Trevenna
God’s big picture – Vaughan Roberts
Vaughan Roberts has put together a superb overview of the whole message of the Bible. It helps us to see the wood from the trees in order to get a much clearer view of how the Bible works … and how it all points to the person and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ.
– Angus MacLeay
Pray Big – Alistair Begg
We all struggle to pray as we should but Alistair Begg helpfully reduces the guilt and encourages us to get going in prayer. This is a good, short, practical introduction. [Full disclosure: Alistair Begg is our daughter-in-law’s uncle.]
– Angus MacLeay
Hole in our holiness – Kevin DeYoung
What does it mean to be holy? Why should we care? And how can we change? Though we remain sinners, how can we be encouraged to grow in holiness and in a lifestyle which pleases the Lord Jesus? Kevin DeYoung offers appropriate encouragement and challenge.
– Angus MacLeay
Deeper – Dane Ortlund
This book both confronted me and comforted me but more than anything it deeply moved me as it showed me ever more of my heart full of need and my Saviour’s heart full of beautiful, deep, costly love. God has wonderfully used this book to help me grow ever deeper into Christ- the one who we’ll never need more than but always more of. Buy a copy for yourself and one for a friend!
– Andrea Trevenna
Gentle and Lowly – Dane Ortlund
This is one of my favourite Christian books. It beautifully and thoughtfully helps us to see the very heart of the Lord Jesus. I know of no other book, other than Scripture itself, which can provide such enormous encouragement to our souls.
– Angus MacLeay
Truth we can touch – Tim Chester
This is the clearest and most helpful book I have read on the sacraments of baptism and communion. Tim Chester helps us to understand these signs given to us by the Lord Jesus in such a way that it will help us into a deeper, more profound relationship with Jesus himself.
– Angus MacLeay
Enjoying Jesus – Tim Chester
Each chapter of this accessible book focuses on a different aspect of the Lord Jesus from Luke’s Gospel. The aim is to help us know Jesus more and enjoy our relationship with Him so that we are even more persuaded of His love and kindness towards us.
– Angus MacLeay
Unleash the word – Karon Soole
This book both excited me about God’s word and really helped equip me to lead better Bible studies using a simple, yet hugely helpful approach of asking a few key questions. I’m thankful for Karon’s wisdom and insight- my Bible studies have certainly been enriched by this book which I would highly recommend!
– Andrea Trevenna
Equip
You’re a theologian – Jen Wilkin and J.T. English
You’re a theologian. In fact, everyone is a theologian. Everyone has words – or thoughts – about God. The challenge taken up by this book is to be a good one. In ten digestible chapters, the authors help us to know good words about God, taking us through the basics of theology – knowing God – in a way that is both clear but also nuanced and faithful. Covering questions from ‘what is God like’, to ‘what has God done’ and ‘how does the story end’, it is recommended for anyone who wants to know God better.
– Nic Ross
How to read the Bible for all its worth – Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart
There are many books written to help people read and understand the Bible. This book – first published in 1981, and now in its fourth edition – has become something of a classic. What distinguishes it from many others is its focus on getting to grips with the different kinds of literature that we encounter in the Bible. Taking us through biblical genres from Old Testament narrative to the psalms, wisdom literature, the gospels and New Testament letters, they help us to grapple with the text in order to both understand it and apply it to ourselves.
– Nic Ross
Surviving religion 101 – Michael Kruger
Going to university is a significant moment – for many, the first time they must choose to follow Jesus away from family and their home church. That can bring real spiritual flourishing, but also challenges. Theologian Michael Kruger wrote this book for his own children, in the hope it would make them better prepared for university than he was. His focus is the intellectual test to faith that university might bring, from questions around science, to those raised by those encountering sceptical biblical scholarship for the first time, as well as how to navigate charges of intolerance or dealing with your own doubts. Written clearly and warmly, this book can help Christian students to have deep confidence in the faith handed down to them.
– Nic Ross
Send
Missions: How the local church goes global – Andy Johnson
This book collates all aspects of how the local church plays its part in God’s global plan. It is biblical and practical in equal measure and helps the local church recover its identity as God’s appointed mission agency today. It’s value on partnership stands out and helps the ‘sending’ reader to feel as engaged in global mission as the ‘sent’ missionary themselves.
– Jamie Read
Let the Nations be Glad – John Piper
The book opens with a profound statement: ‘Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t’. This frames the whole book and helps the reader understand that the truest motivation for mission isn’t our church growth, or generosity, or even the salvation of those who will perish without Christ, but heart-devotion and worship of the living God.
– Jamie Read
Promoting the Gospel – John Dickson
Sometimes we find ourselves thinking that mission only happens when missionaries go to far away countries. This book is a wise and compelling corrective. It shows us that you can be on the front line of mission as an ordinary Christian. It’s as we promote Christ above all else in every sphere of life, that we find ourselves taken to the frontline of God’s mission.
– Jamie Read
Hudson Taylor – A Man in Christ – Roger Steer
This was the first book I read about mission or missionaries and it left such a deep impression on me. It tells the story of an Englishman in the 1800s who in his weakness and humility was used by the Lord to bring many in inland China to Christ, paving the way for the work of OMF in SE Asia to this day. Hudson Taylor shows how contextualisation, determination and a humble dependence upon the Lord are three essentials for any missionary enterprise.
– Jamie Read
Through the Gates of Splendour – Elisabeth Elliot
Jim Elliot was to Ecuador, what Hudson Taylor was to China as you will discover in this compelling book by his late wife Elisabeth. Just read it and let the characters leave their impression on you as you discover how God’s grace is woven into the story of a young group of American Christians who were compelled to reach the lost in the remote jungles of Ecuador.
– Jamie Read
Other
Dig Deeper – Nigel Beynon and Andrew Sach
This book is essentially about how to read and understand what you are reading – an essential task for anyone who wants to take up the Bible and understand what God is saying in his Word. The authors do this using the metaphor of a toolbox, introducing different tools (for example the structure tool, the context tool, and the vocabulary tool) to help you to read with understanding (or ‘dig deeper’). The tools are illustrated using Mark’s gospel as a worked example. Although there is a danger that this reduces Bible-reading to a matter of technique, and not primarily a moral endeavour requiring humility and obedience, the toolbox is helpful for anyone wanting to get to grips with the Bible and who has found it confusing or impenetrable at times.
– Nic Ross
Can science explain everything? – John Lennox
One of the frequent objections raised against the Christian faith is that it is incompatible with the findings of modern science. John Lennox, an Oxford mathematician who has for many years spoken at the intersection of Christianity and science, gives a robust defence of biblical Christianity in this book. Far from disproving Christianity, as Prof. Lennox shows, modern science in fact depends upon the biblical worldview – that a Lawgiver has written predictable laws into nature – for its own existence and remarkable success.
– Nic Ross
Can We Trust the Gospels? – Peter Williams
In this concise yet rigorous book, leading scholar Peter Williams presents compelling evidence for the historical reliability of the Gospels. Accessible and engaging, it is perhaps the clearest short introduction to why we can trust the eyewitness accounts of Jesus.
– John Khnana
The Prodigal God – Timothy Keller
Tim Keller unlocks the story of the Prodigal Son by highlighting not only the spiritual needs of a wayward son but also shows us how our hearts can be like the judgmental older brother. Yet in all of this the author’s great aim is to shine a light on the amazing compassion and grace discovered only in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
– Angus MacLeay
