Monarch Books imprint: 247 books
The Axe and the Tree
How bloody persecution sowed the seeds of new life in Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
A powerful account of British missionaries, Peter and Brenda Griffiths, who played a critical role in the development of the Elim church in the aftermath of the Vumba massacre. Peter and Brenda Griffiths, Stephen's parents, and their team had set up a superb secondary school, only for guerrillas to...
Through the Dark Woods
A young woman's journey out of depression
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006
This book is based on the author's own experience of wrestling with depression, and her story carries the book along. Using this structure she discusses the stigma associated with depression. She talks of the importance of correct diagnosis, and the challenges of day to day survival. She takes an...
Son of the Underground
The life of Isaac Liu, son of Brother Yun, the Heavenly Man
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
In the months before Isaac's birth, his father was in prison once again. His mother was forced into having an abortion, though seven months pregnant, because she was carrying the child of an enemy of the state. After desperate prayer, the night before she was due to go into hospital for the operation,...
Taking My God for a Walk
A publisher on pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
In September 2013 Tony Collins took advantage of a long-overdue sabbatical to walk the 490 miles of the Camino, from the French border to Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain. For decades he had helped to provide the evangelical churches of the world with reading material. Now he was deliberately...
God's Needle
How Lily Gaynor brought hope and healing to the land of the witchdoctors
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
In 1957 freshly qualified nurse and WEC missionary Lily Gaynor set sail for Guinea-Bissau, to live among the Papel tribe. Tuberculosis, malaria, and typhoid were rife. Children were grossly malnourished; witch doctors flourished. Lily set up a clinic under the mango trees, administering penicillin...
A Passionate Faith
What Makes an Evangelical?
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
"Evangelical" is a badge, a line in the sand, a term of abuse, a much-overworked word. What are the key markers of the evangelical faith? How did the movement come into being, and how is it changing? What is its style, then and now, and what is its theology? Richard Turnbull shows how and...
Through the Year with John Wesley
365 daily readings from John Wesley
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Through the Year with John Wesley refreshes and presents some of the theological and reflective writings of the Reverend John Wesley, renowned as 'The father of Methodism'. A deeply spiritual man of high integrity and indomitable character, Wesley strove to present great Christian truths to the non-churchgoing...
Mother of Malawi
She created an oasis of love in a country of orphans
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Throughout her life Annie Chikhwaza has retained a heart for the marginalised. First in Holland, then in South Africa, now in Malawi, she has reached out with practical help. When she married a poor African pastor and moved to Malawi, she was horrified by the thousands of orphans on the streets. Today...
40 Days of Grace
Discovering God's Liberating Love
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
There are two fundamentally different approaches to living life in relation to God. The first approach is to jump up and down, trying to impress Him. The second is to relate to Him on the basis of grace. Though the first approach makes sense at first glance (since it is the way we get noticed), it...
The Word on the Wind
Renewing Confidence in the Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The average age of churchgoers in Britain is now 47. Almost every denomination is experiencing steady decline. How sure can we be that we are still offering something people want to hear? Alison Morgan identifies four clear reasons to be confident: 1. The gospel still speaks to confused teens and...
by Rob Parsons
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
How to raise kids with a healthy view of Christians, the church, themselves and God. It is every Christian parent's fear: what if my child falls away because of something I did, or said, or was? Rob Parsons is extremely reassuring. His pragmatic, candid approach provides both parenting advice and...
Rough Diamonds
A new kind of man - tough, trusted, transformed
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Men wear masks, to pretend all is well. Men are all too often anxious little boys who never become truly men, rather than just male. They don't fulfil their potential; they don't stay married; they remain emotionally stunted; they get into debt; under pressure they crumble. They never develop their...
Disappointed With Jesus?
Why Do So Many Young People Give Up on God?
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
As Gavin Calver had to discover for himself, you can't survive on inherited faith. He found it tough to be the son of a preacher man. Conscious of the eyes and expectations upon him, he got thrown out of Sunday school, slunk off to smoke in the car park during sermons, and eventually abandoned church...
Stumbling Blocks
Conquering the Stuff That Holds You Back
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Getting through the tough stuff. You see a friend suffer. Leaders and churches let you down. Your prayers fall flat. Maybe your dad died. How do you have faith through these things? Gavin and Anne have faced their own challenges. They struggled to conceive ' and then their second child needed thirteen...