Putting away childish things (by David A Seamands)

(Amazon UK link) I know very little about the late David A Seamands, other than brief biographies online. He was a missionary as a young man, and then ordained in the United Methodist Church, where he worked as a senior pastor and then as an advisor. At some point we were given his book ‘Putting Away Childish Things’, and when I first read it I thought it excellent. I read it again in 2007 and, similarly, felt that his ideas and principles were very sound. 
I decided it was time to read the book a...