At the recent Faith Cook lecture I was able to purchase – and get signed – the new book by Paul Cook ‘Fire From Heaven – Times of Extraordinary Revival’.  It’s a book that very nearly wasn’t as I recall speaking to him last year as he expressed doubts about having it published. The last chapter caused him great difficulty and was in fact the substance of a lecture given at Rugby with the title ‘Have we lost interest in Revival?(download it HERE).

As it’s a new purchase a review will have to wait until I can get around to reading it.  However, it’s worth noting at least two highly commendable aspects of the book.  It has notes at the back (end notes) and an index to facilitate further study.  It also has a brief selected bibliography in addition to books in the end notes.

Here’s the blurb from the EP Books website:

This work has a history. Since giving  a paper on ‘The Forgotten Revival’ at the Westminster Conference in 1984, and subsequently a number of addresses in various places on different aspects of that revival movement, friends have urged me to write up the material in book form to ensure a more permanent record of these revivals. My calling as a preacher has kept me from doing this. However, further exhortations have finally prevailed and this book is the result, with occasional evidences of the preacher still present.

1 Remembering former days
2 The God who hears prayer
3 Early revivals in the North of England
4 Days of the Son of Man in Yorkshire
5 Cornwall and the great revival of 1814
6 The Cornish revivals
7 How the Wesleyans regarded the work of God
8 Rethinking our doctrine of revival

Paul Cook was the pastor of three churches, Hull, Shepshed and Northallerton. Paul and his wife, Faith have five grown up children. Paul and Faith now live in Breaston, Derbyshire.

The book may be purchased through the EP Books website or from all good book-stores.