WESLEY’S HEART STRANGELY WARMED
I REMEMBER … John Wesley’s Happy Day JOHN Wesley was an Anglican clergyman who did his best to live an obedient life before God. He had an ardent faith, yet […]
REVIEW OF ‘READING THE BIBLE AND PRAYING IN PUBLIC’
Review of Stuart Olyott Reading the Bible and Praying in Public, Edinburgh: Banner Of Truth, 2010. HERE is a small booklet which illustrates the saying that ‘little things can mean […]
ML-J on ISAIAH 1:1-18
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, God’s Way Not Ours, Sermons on Isaiah 1.1-18, Banner of Truth, Edinburgh, 2003. LET’S play a word association game. What words come to mind when you hear […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]