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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I Remember When…Christians fared well at college
My only taste of secular tertiary education was in 1962-3 at Wagga Teachers College. It was a vastly different era to the present time. In 1962 there were eight Teachers […]
I Remember … A Royal Visit to The Church Of Scotland General Assembly
‘It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His Royal Highness passed […]
I Remember … When We Set Up PresAID
I was sitting as Guest of Honour in the Blantyre Synod of the Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian, in Malawi in 2005. On my right sat Rev Joseph Juma, General […]