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Bob Thomas

Book Review: Ministering Like the Master

Review of Stuart Olyott, Ministering like the Master. Three Messages For Today’s Preachers, Edinburgh: Banner Of Truth, 2003. Stuart Olyott’s name is not nearly well enough known here in Australia, […]

By Bob Thomas Posted on 2 months ago

Review of J. C. Ryle’s ‘The Upper Room’

Review of J. C. Ryle, The upper Room – Being A Few Truths For The Times, The Banner Of Truth Trust, Edinburgh, first published 1888, this (retypeset) edition 2022. Sure […]

By Bob Thomas Posted on 2 months ago

Review of George Smeaton’s Sermons and Addresses

George Smeaton, Sermons and Addresses, edited by John W. Keddie, Edinburgh: Banner Of Truth, 2022. ‘Time like an ever-rolling stream, bears all its sons away; they fly, forgotten as a […]

By Bob Thomas Posted on 3 months ago

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A HEART’S DESIRE FOR REVIVAL

A Challenge To Us Who Live In Difficult Days: In the Introduction of his magisterial biography, ‘George Whitefield Volume 1’, published by The Banner of Truth Trust, Dr Arnold Dallimore […]

By Bob Thomas Posted on 26th October 2022

REVIEW: THIS WORLD IS NOT MY HOME

Review of Mark G. Johnston, This World is not my Home: Reflections For Pilgrims On The Way, Edinburgh: The Banner Of Truth Trust, 2021. A glance at the title and […]

By Bob Thomas Posted on 19th September 2022

INSIGHTS FROM SPURGEON

I Remember … Charles Haddon Spurgeon I’d never heard of Charles Haddon Spurgeon until my good mate and fellow student John Webster urged me to start reading him. So I […]

By Bob Thomas Posted on 16th August 2022

BOOK REVIEWS ON THOMAS CHARLES

John Aaron Thomas Charles of Bala, Edinburgh: Banner of Truth. 2022. My wife and I were driving around Wales a few years ago and were surprised to see statues of […]

By Bob Thomas Posted on 15th July 2022

Review of J. C. Ryle, HOW DO YOU READ THE BIBLE? (Edinburgh: Banner Of Truth Trust, 2021).

TOO much is never enough when it comes to reading, marking, learning and inwardly digesting the Word of God, for it is in His Word, the Bible, that God reveals […]

By Bob Thomas Posted on 1st June 2022

Social Commentary

I Remember … 24 May 1738, John Wesley’s Happy Day

A Supposed Joke: A man woke up one morning feeling down in the dumps so he opened his Bible and read: ‘Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a […]

By Bob Thomas Posted on 24th May 2022

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Christian Life

I Remember When … I was seven

I REMEMBER … When I Was Seven … and in Sunday School we used to sing ‘Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, to shine for Him each day, in every […]

By Bob Thomas Posted on 19th May 2022

Christian Life

Lines Written Above Earth While Flying From Melbourne To London

Tom Blunden, our history teacher at Newcastle Boys’ High School used to decry the fact that the school’s curriculum was structured in such a way that we could take either […]

By Bob Thomas Posted on 28th April 2022

Book Review

‘MiniGuides’ Bring Maxihelp In Understanding The Faith

MINIGUIDES TO THEOLOGY. Authors: Various. Published by The Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh, banneroftruth.org from 2018 onwards. These ‘miniGuides’ will bring maxihelp to those of us who sometimes struggle, sometimes even wrestle with […]

By Bob Thomas Posted on 23rd March 2022

Christian Life

I Remember … When I Was Licensed To Preach The Gospel

We’re in the middle of the Licensing Season, that time of year when this year’s crop of exit students has finished their formal studies and are about to embark on […]

By Bob Thomas Posted on 13th February 2022

Christian Life

I REMEMBER … The Message Spurgeon Received Each New Year

I remember reading that Charles Haddon Spurgeon used to receive a greeting from an Anglican bishop each New Year giving him a text to preach on at the beginning of […]

By Bob Thomas Posted on 8th January 2022

Christian Life

I Remember … A Silly Sign

DON’t get me wrong. I’m all in favour of signs outside churches aka ‘Wayside Pulpits’. After all I had one outside St Kilda Church for long enough. People would often […]

By Bob Thomas Posted on 22nd November 2021

Social Commentary

I Remember … When We All Lined Up For The Salk Polio Vaccine

When I was a child, polio was one of the scourges of childhood, and it was very personal for me. My mother had contracted it in 1919 when she was […]

By Bob Thomas Posted on 4th September 2021

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