Acorn Press: 114 books
Location, Location, Location: Heaven
One preacher's vision of holy living
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
How do we keep the same perspective as our Father in heaven in the midst of everyday life and its challenges? He asks us to be holy as he is holy, but what does holy living look like for regular folk?
Clive Brook has a heart for the ordinary Australian and a vision for extraordinary Christian...
The Suburban Captivity of the Church
Contextualising the Gospel for Post-Christian Australia
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2014
For far too long, Australian evangelicals have proclaimed a gospel loaded with the cultural baggage of suburbia: personal security, individual salvation and an other-worldly focus. Is this message really a set of timeless truths with universal application? Or have we injected Jesus’ message with...
When the Lights Go Out
Memoir of a Missionary to Somalia
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
In 1960, Ruth Myors left Australia to work as a midwife with the Somali people. For over two decades, she worked in a hospital in Somalia, a village in Ethiopia and in radio ministry in Kenya. During this time, government decisions, coups, communist takeovers, natural disasters, sudden deaths and...
God of the Empty-Handed
Poverty, Power and the Kingdom of God
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
How can the Kingdom of God transform the powerlessness of the poor?
Jayakumar Christian argues that in order to provide sustainable solutions to powerlessness, poverty and oppression, it is critical to challenge and redefine power from the perspective of the kingdom of God. Only when we realise that...
Spirit, Word and World
Evangelical Christianity in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Evangelical Christianity is one of the most formative and least acknowledged movements in Australian history. This book accords evangelicals their rightful place in the development of Australian identity and values. Evangelicalism focuses on the gospel, the God-given means not only of the salvation...
The Birthday Card
Snapshots of a Man's Grief
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
It is a sickening feeling to experience the death of someone who is precious to you. To be hit full in the face with the reality that a person whose life is intricately interwoven in yours has been forcibly removed from it and you will never, never see them on this planet again. You will not be able...
Beyond the Myth of Self-Esteem
Finding Fulfilment
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Enticing yet potentially damaging ‘myths’ about self-esteem have become so deeply entrenched in pop culture that many accept them as truth. They have infiltrated parenting, teaching, the media, celebrity culture, advertising and even religion.
Drawing on a wide range of resources and insights...
Connecting across Cultures
Sharing the Gospel across Cultural and Religious Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
In a multicultural society Christians often feel uneasy about discussing Jesus with people from other religious backgrounds, fearing their efforts will come across as arrogant or offensive. In this completely revised edition, David Claydon describes ways that Christians can take the gospel across religious and cultural boundaries in loving, sensitive and respectful ways.
by Patti Larsen
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Ten-year-old Chloe Sutton arrives on Prince Edward Island from her home in Ontario after the tragic loss of her parents in a car accident. Her Aunt Laverne is a doctor and her only relative able to take her in. Chloe isn’t sure what to make of her aunt’s big old house on the red cliff overlooking...
by Finley Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
It is 2001 and the police constable’s girlfriend is murdered in a fit of jealous rage. When the constable realizes what he has done, he manages an elaborate cover-up. Only one person knows the truth.
Flash forward to 2012. Anne Brown is still running her late uncle, Bill Darby’s, detective...
by William Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
William Andrews’ first novel examines life in a small PEI community in the 1940s and 50s as changes, so common in the rest of the world, begin to take hold. Using a road as an allegory, he weaves a lyrical tale of simple country people, their struggles and their joys. The story is told through the...
by Susan White
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Maple Sugar Pie is the story of Hazel Whitford and her family's past, told through old black and white photographs, we see the events that caused deep fractures in her family and her estrangement from her husband and all but one of her living children.
We also see the story through...
by Susan White
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Dealing with a parent's illness can be difficult at any age It is 1967 and twelve year old Ruth Iverson's world pretty much revolves around her friends, a boy she likes, the Monkees and spending time with her Dad doing special stuff like watching the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. But she...
View from the Faraway Pagoda
An Australian Missionary in China from The Boxer Rebellion to The Communist Insurgency
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This book describes the life and service of an inspiring woman, Sophie Newton, whose desire to serve God led her to the forefront of missionary work in south-east China from 1897 to 1931. She lived through the tumultuous events of the Boxer Rebellion and Nationalist Revolution, as well as warlord...