Recently published by Gospel Standard Publications is Justifying Faith which is the first book in the new Baptist Heritage Series. This series is all about republishing works by key figures within the Particular Baptist tradition specifically from the 17th to 20th Centuries. Thomas Hardcastle is not a well known figure. He was a seventeenth century […]

A recent publication on Marriage & Family was highly recommended by a reviewer in the Evangelical Times . I agree with the reviewer that it is a helpful book covering a range of topics affecting marriage and parenting. The author (a pastor of nearly 40 years) writes clearly about the Biblical standards of gender roles, […]

Isaiah By The Day: A New Devotional Translation by Alec Motyer. I have been using this book alongside my personal reading of Isaiah. It is a uniquely helpful book. Motyer has studied Isaiah over many years and has written his own translation with additional translation notes and devotional comments. He clearly understands and loves not […]

A timely word from J H Gosden: Scripture plainly shows that a man may be divinely called to preach the gospel and yet not be a pastor of a particular church; but the inference that some have been willing to draw from this undoubted fact, that it is immaterial whether a church have a pastor […]

Faith Seeking Assurance is in the Puritan Treasures for Today series and is adapted from Burgess’s original writings on assurance entitled Spiritual Refining, first published in London in 1652. The following extract is taken from the last chapter Assurance versus Presumption: How a Godly Man May Have Assurance: What should the godly person do when […]

This fascinating book arrived in stock yesterday and deserves some attention. Malcolm Lee spent his entire working life at the UK Met Office in various roles, including setting up the National Climate Information Centre. As a Christian, his deep understanding of weather observations naturally turns to spiritual application as he considers the creator of these […]

An extract from this book of sermons on the death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ… “And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest. And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing. Then said […]

This new title from Christian Focus Publications is an attempt to produce a layman’s version of their 2022 publication Irresistible Beauty: Beholding Triune Glory in the Face of Jesus Christ. The author, Samuel Parkison, writes that ‘too many Christian’s today are missing out: they fail to see the beauty of Christ because the Christ they […]

First published in 1981, this book has been through many reprints and continues to search consciences with its lessons drawn from the life of Jonah. This extract is taken from the first chapter. Three inestimable privileges: Service, a Sense of Destiny, and Spiritual Fellowship. These form the background to the life of Jonah when we […]

In thirteen sermons on Psalm 42:11 William Bridge speaks firstly on true peace and and then on how this peace can be interrupted by discouragements. He spends time looking at various discouragements such as sin, weak grace, lack of assurance, temptation, affliction and more. He finishes the series by looking at the cure for these […]

Thoughts on Religious Experience by Archibald Alexander The new year seemed like a good time to get stuck into a meaty book again after some easy-reading picks in the busyness at the end of last year. So far this one is proving to be worthy of slow, thoughtful reading. What an enormously complex subject of […]

One of our bestsellers throughout the year is the Daily Remembrancer by James Smith. James Smith (1802-1862) was the predecessor of C H Spurgeon at New Park Street Chapel in London from 1841 until 1850. He wrote this remembrancer for his own flock around 1840 saying ‘in this work I aim to speak in the […]