Meals for the Soul

The series

Three volumes.
One road.

A three-year journey through the teachings of Jesus Christ — one Gospel passage each week, for one hundred and fifty-six weeks. Encounter, then discipleship, then communion.

Front cover of Words for the Narrow Way, Book One: Come and See, by Nicholas Evoy

Book One

Come and See

“Come and see.”

Two men asked Jesus of Nazareth where He was staying. He answered with three words, and they went and spent the day with Him. People have been walking out of ordinary lives on that invitation ever since.

Fifty-two of His sayings, one for each week of the year. Every passage in full, with what the Greek actually says, how the Fathers read it, and one practice to carry through the week. It ends where He asks: who do you say that I am?

364 pages · paperback · ISBN 979-8-17118-473-5

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Front cover of Words for the Narrow Way, Book Two: Follow Me, by Nicholas Evoy

Book Two

Follow Me

“Enter through the narrow gate.”

Book One was the invitation. This is what happens after you say yes.

Fifty-two weeks on what Christ actually asks — prayer nobody sees, money He will not stop talking about, forgiveness with no ceiling, enemies you are told to love. He tells a man to count the cost before he builds. He watches another walk away rich and sad.

The mercy is what makes it survivable: the son who came home with nothing, the Samaritan who never capped his liability, the tax collector who said seven words and went home justified.

628 pages · paperback · ISBN 979-8-17141-312-5

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Front cover of Words for the Narrow Way, Book Three: Abide in Me, by Nicholas Evoy

Book Three

Abide in Me

“Remain in Me, and I will remain in you.”

Book One was the invitation. Book Two was the cost. This is the part that is not done by effort.

Fifty-two weeks on staying — the vine, the buried seed, the kingdom growing where nobody was watching — and then, in His own words, who He is.

It does not stay gentle. The lamps run out. The servant buries what he was given. Neither side recognises Him at the judgement, and both have to be told. It ends with Peter, restored on a beach, turning round to ask about somebody else — and being told: What is that to you? You follow Me!

666 pages · paperback

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What is in every reading

The passage, whole

Printed in full from the Majority Standard Bible. The parables are never cut before the ending.

What the Greek is doing

The word the English had to flatten, checked against the interlinear and cited.

How the Fathers read it

Chrysostom above all — quoted even where he contradicts the modern reading, with the source given.

One practice

Small enough to do, with a daily return, and a worked example of what it looks like when somebody actually does it.

No calendar dates in any volume — begin in any week of any year.