Mark Stibbe

Winner of the prestigious 2020 Page Turner Awards, A Book in Time is a truly enchanting work of magical realism by "a hugely talented storyteller." This exceptional novel has been described by publishers, agents, and literary judges alike as "visionary", "ambitious", "magical", "unique," "refreshing". You will never have read anything like it before. And if you're a lover of books, or you work in a profession to do with books, you will be hooked from the first sentence. Early reviews have described this most unusual novel as a masterpiece. A Book in Time is a captivating love story about a book's intense longing over two centuries for the mother who bore it. Adopted by many different owners - some loving, others unscrupulous - this book (the first edition of a volume of poems entitled 'The Burning Ones') longs to be reunited with an elderly author who cherished it as if it was her only child. As the book passes through many hands, it observes not only the way people treat it, but each other, and in all of this, its mother's love sets the high standard against which everything is lovingly judged. In a strange demonstration of synchronicity, the author - Mark Stibbe - experienced the culmination of his own search for a mother after completing this novel. Having been orphaned in 1960, and having never met or known his birth mother, Mark met her for the first time at the end of 2021, shortly before she died. So, there is more than a hint of Mark's own search in the book's quest for its author. In the case of A Book in Time, in perhaps a unique way, art has magically imitated life even as life has magically imitated art.

In March 2022, Nev's Border Collie, Sophie, died aged 15. Mark, hearing the news, wrote to console his old friend. This kickstarted a long and heartfelt email conversation about where Sophie is now - a conversation that broadened and deepened into the larger question, Do Dogs Go to Heaven? Many of us want to know if we will see our beloved animals again in eternity. In this pioneering and unique book, Mark and Nev address this issue as it relates to dogs. They do so not in the form of a philosophical debate, but by sharing powerful stories, spiritual reflections, and memorable quotations. As you journey with them through this book, you'll discover how the relationship between humans and dogs has a unique spiritual purpose. As the two friends put it, "the love of a dog is inseperable from the love of God". Nev is a former Scotland Yard detective, church pastor, and pub landlord - all people-intensive occupations. Yet, the three closest friends he has had have been his dogs: Shady - a black Labrador; Chester - a mongrel, rescued from the police station; and Sophie, a Border Collie, the best pub dog in the world. Nev and his wfie Lesley live in the aptly named Eden valley in Cumbria. Mark has never been without a Black Labrador by his side, first as a Vicar (for 25 years), now as a full-time, professional writer. In addition to being an award-winning author, he is the CEO of Booklab which has helped thousands of aspiring writers. He lives in Kent with his wife Cherith and their Black Labrador Bella.

Don't Panic in the Corona Storm We are living, without any doubt, through one of the greatest global crises in history. Many nations are now in total lockdown as the virus known as COVID-19 spreads across the Earth. Hospitals are being overrun and entire economies are in great danger of meltdown. We are in what Mark Stibbe calls a "Corona Storm." While many news outlets and conspiracy theorists are inciting a spirit of fear, Mark Stibbe encourages us to realize that the best antidote is to press the reset button in our lives and to initiate a pandemic of love - love for God, for our neighbor, for ourselves. Many people are responding to the Corona Storm like orphans, hoarding food and toilet rolls, acting out of a center of fear. A much healthier, wiser and more Biblical approach is to behave like God's sons and daughters and to live from a center of love. This is not the time to stockpile toilet rolls. It's time for putting first things first and for falling in love with God. In this current storm, the world is waiting, and the Earth is groaning, for such as these.

God is madly in love with you You've heard the phrase "God loves you." But what does it really mean? And do you even believe it? The 100 Bible verses compiled and explained in this book are a profound glimpse into the heart of Father God. They tell a story of the God who made you, knows everything about you, and who loves you so much that He went to hell and back for you. If your daily life hasn't been radically changed by the power of this love, then this book is for you. Author Mark Stibbe is passionate about awakening people to the reality of the Father's extravagant love. These carefully selected Bible verses from the Old and New Testaments will gently guide you to experience the depth of God's love in amazing new ways.

Restoring the Fallen tells Mark and Cherith Stibbe’s painful story of fall, repentance and restoration. Rooted throughout in the moving tale of Peter’s restoration in John 21, Mark and Cherith offer hope and healing to those who have fallen. They use the picture of kintsugi - the Japanese art of repairing broken cups using golden lacquer – to reveal how we are all cracked pots, but our loving Father is the Divine Potter, and in his hands, our fractures become the fissures through which his glory shines!

Sent away to boarding school on his eighth birthday, Mark Stibbe watched his adoptive parents drive down a gravel road, leaving him standing in front of a huge country house with his trunk and his teddy. That night he was given the first of four beatings in his first two weeks. Ten years later, towards the end of his time at Britains oldest public school, Mark was then subjected to further brutal abuse, along with twenty other boys, by a man who infiltrated the Christian forum.; Mark Stibbe wrote Home at Last to show how those wounded by their boarding school experiences can find lasting healing. Having been through the process of recovery himself, Mark now tells his story and shares a unique, faith-based perspective and how to start the journey towards freedom from the abandonment and abuse that so often marks the boarding experience.

What does it mean to be a real man in today

Offers a fresh, compassionate, biblically-based understanding of salvation that will arouse great interest and will resonate deeply with a postmodern generation, not easily won by a sin-focused, guilt-edged Gospel. The effectiveness of Mark Stibbe's high profile ministry is due in part to the open way in which he shares his own experience of being orphaned and adopted - themes highly relevant to this new volume. Full of stories - moving, exhilarating and very readable. Taking a new look at the interrelationship of the Father and the Son at Calvary, Mark Stibbe explores the Father's agony at seeing his son in pain; the son suffering the Father's absence, and the Holy Spirit as the bond of love between the two, holding them in an eternal embrace. The author relates this to the orphan condition of separation and shame he has known personally in his own life. He suggests that in the excruciating picture of the grieving Father and the abandoned Son, we paradoxically discover the exhilarating Good News: that our true identity is as the adopted, much-loved children of a God who longs to honour and heal us.

In his new book, Mark Stibbe reminds us that we have a loving, generous Father who delights to give his children gifts, especially the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Mark describes each of the spiritual gifts mentioned in the New Testament and provides tools for the reader to identify which gifts they have. He also urges the contemporary church not to dial down on the spiritual gifts but to create a culture where all the gifts are eagerly welcomed and responsibly stewarded. This book is a vital rallying cry for a return to genuine, charismatic Christianity at a time when so many Christians and indeed churches have lost their passion for the presence of God and for the supernatural evidences of God's presence in worship and mission.

Mark Stibbe vet av personlig erfaring hvordan det føles å være uten verdi for en jordisk far eller mor. Han ble plassert på barnehjem i 1960; senere ble han adoptert av en kjærlig far og fikk et godt hjem. Etter hvert la han ut på søken etter enrelasjon til sin himmelske Far, og hjertet hans fant sitt rette hjem.

Dr Mark Stibbe fell in love with John's Gospel as a teenager. This set of devotional readings springs from profound reflection over many years, but the tone is inspirational and popular. He writes: 'John is my favourite Gospel. In John's Gospel, Jesus is the Son who reveals the Father. He is presented to us as the one who came to show us what the Father is truly like. He says of himself that he is the only Way to the Father and the one who discloses the truth about the Father heart of God. Every verse of John's Gospel reveals the Father. 'Together we consider 366 texts and look at how they reveal the Father who has adopted us, embraced us in his family, and promised never to abandon us. The purpose of every daily study is to turn what we learn into the language of adoration.'

We live in an increasingly fatherless society. Fatherless children are far more likely to be criminals or victims. In January 2009 Mark quit as the senior leader of a successful and progressive Anglican congregation, to found a ministry called The Father's House, dedicated to taking the Father's love to the fatherless. 'The task of the family of God is to take the Father's love to the fatherless. To do this, those who are already members of God's family need to have their father wounds healed. This book will help those with hearts broken by their earthly fathers to find in their Heavenly Father the love of all loves.' In Part 1, Mark describes the different ways in which fathers can hurt their children. In Part 2, he goes deeper, defining the wound as 'the orphan heart' and describing the main symptoms of this condition in peoples' lives. In Part 3, he shows how Christians can find true healing through experiencing the Spirit of adoption.

For years J John and Mark Stibbe have recorded the most offbeat, shrewd and hard-hitting material they have come across in the course of their study and travel. With remarkable generosity they have agreed to share this selection with the rest of us. There's a new diet that is all the rage. You can eat all you see of everything you don't like. On the sixth day, God created the platypus. And God said : "Let's see the evolutionists try and figure this one out." Advice to fathers over 40: keep an open mind and a closed refrigerator. We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. There's a new remedy on the market for baldness. It doesn't grow hair but it shrinks your head to fit what hair your head has left. Education is forcing abstract ideas into concrete heads.

Breakout is the story of one church's rediscovery of a Spirit empowered, New Testament model of church. It is an honest, inspiring testimony to the truth that the Gospel of Jesus still maintains its life-changing power and God's people still have it in them to change the world. St Andrew's Chorleywood has been at the forefront of church renewal for over three decades. In the last five years, it has seen substantial growth as the congregation has moved from drawing people to one place, to a model in which well over a thousand believers have been sent out in mission-shaped communities of up to 50 members, meeting in school halls, community centres, coffee shops and other contexts. This daring move has resulted in the raising up of over a hundred new leaders, a massive release of spiritual gifts, great vision and creativity in outreach, and major growth through evangelism.

A hardback book which looks afresh at the prodigal son story.

Mark Stibbe writes: 'This book has been written for anyone who wants to either recapture or capture for the first time the wonder of what this season celebrates.' 'I'd like to propose that this book is a thesaurus, a treasure chest, of twenty years of lovingly accumulated wit and wonder to do with the Christmas story. Someone has said, 'to perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year'. Maybe with the help of this book something of the real meaning of Christmas will shine through.'

In this compelling book, Mark Stibbe argues that God wants to use Christians to speak prophetically into the lives of unbelievers, waking them up to the fact that Jesus is alive and he knows their every thought, word and action. There are many biblical examples of God's people using prophecy in their witness to unbelievers. Jesus used prophecy in His ministry to seekers. After Pentecost, God gave the gift of prophecy to believers as one resource among many in their witness to the world. Furthermore, Christians today receive prophecies for those who don't know Christ, often with immediate and life-changing effects. This book contains many such testimonies.