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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

As the founding headmaster of a boys school, Alun Ebenezer is perfectly suited to write a book for young men. In 30 short chapters this little book encourages young men to embrace their masculinity, swim against the current tide of gender-confusion, and act as real Biblical men. Ever down-to-earth and practical Alun Ebenezer taps into […]

Pause – How to enjoy God, find hope & bear fruit through midlife and the menopause by Sarah Allen (10Publishing, 2024) I’m must admit to being rather dismissive when I first saw this book being publicised. I mean, really? Do we really have to have a Christian book about every stage of life… even the […]

A response to the article entitled ‘The Word of the Lord Endureth For Ever’ in the Friendly Companion for August 2023. The article contends that trousers are not to be worn by women on the basis of Deuteronomy 22:5, The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put […]

Love the Ones Who Drive You Crazy: Eight Truths for Pursuing Unity in your Church by Jamie Dunlop We all know the familiar texts on the importance of brotherly love and unity in the church. But are we honest with ourselves about our commitment to this? Especially unity with ‘those people’ – the ones who, […]

This is one to keep an eye out for – if you enjoy satire. Reminiscent of C S Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, Natalie Brand has cleverly written a series of letters from the Heart to the Tongue. The Heart strongly berates the Tongue for all manner of sly and malicious dealings demonstrating the many references in […]

Evangelical Pharisees by Michael Reeves, (Crossway, 2023) In Evangelical Pharisees Michael Reeves is writing to Christian believers on the theme of hypocrisy. He writes out of a concern to see orthodoxy in doctrine not just remaining as head knowledge, but leading to a change in heart and life. In the first chapter, ‘Beware of the […]

There are certain books which are so insightful that reading them is an eye-opening experience. Pride is one of these books: Matthew Roberts revealingly analyses the nature of our society from a Biblical viewpoint and reveals the root cause of the brokenness and confusion that we see around us. The Pride movement, the devaluing of […]

I noticed recently that Evangelical Press are due to publish a book that was previously published by Crossway Books: Being There by Dave Furman. This is a book that we reviewed and recommended a few years back so I am reposting our original review in the hope that it might be helpful… There are many […]