Review of Simonetta  Carr,  Church History, Grand  Rapids:  Reformation Heritage Books, 2022.             Simonetta Carr has written a beautifully produced history of the Church. There are illustrations, time lines, things […]

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 […]

You’re Only Human How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News By James Jeffery Author: Kelly Kapic Publisher: Brazos Press Year: 2022 It seems that we live […]

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 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 of Simon van Bruchem, Distinctively Christian Retirement, Written for our Instruction, 2022.             Simon van Bruchem is a Presbyterian pastor from Western Australia, and in a little over 200 […]

J Cameron Fraser, Missionary Baptism & Evangelical Unity. Eugene, OR.: Wipf & Stock, 2021. It is an honour that Cameron has asked me to review his work. We were students […]

BOOK REVIEW: Alistair Begg, Truth for Life: 365 Daily Devotions, United Kingdom: The Good Book Company, 2021.             Books on daily readings for a year have come into a life […]

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 […]

C. H. Spurgeon, The Key to Holiness  (Whitaker House, 2012). “Oh, that you may yet know how precious to a believer is the purifying work of sanctification!” These are words […]

Review of Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1987.             Nicholas Wolterstorff taught Philosophical Theology at Yale University, but his world was shattered when one of his five […]

Review of Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy : Discovering the Grace of Lament, Wheaton: Crossway, 2019.             Pastor Vroegop and his wife suffered the stillbirth of their daughter, Sylvia, […]

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 […]

Knowing Sin: Seeing a Neglected Doctrine Through the Eyes of the Puritans Author: Mark Jones Publisher: Moody Publishers Year: 2022 In the 6th century AD, a Chinese general and strategist […]

Understanding Family Worship Author: Terry L. Johnson Publisher: Christian Focus Year: 2022 All Christian parents want to raise their children to know the Lord Jesus Christ. The main challenge concerns […]

Christian Focus has ventured into the area of the Early Church Fathers, and this is to be welcomed. One who did so much earlier was B. B. Warfield who famously […]