“Bespangled with Divine Grace” – The Spirituality of John Gill, published by Joshua Press in the Classics of Reformed Spirituality series. This little book was recently reviewed well in the Gospel Standard magazine and would be worth checking out: John Gill was the greatest and most accomplished Baptist theologian of the eighteenth century and had […]

The second book in the new Baptist Heritage Series has just been published. This is a reprint of Abraham Booth’s An Apology for the Baptists, which is a clear and persuasive answer to those who advocated an open communion position in the eighteenth century. The introduction to the book gives some helpful contextual history and […]

The following call for prayer and fasting was sent by the Baptist Churches of Ireland to their brethren in England in 1653, and has continuing relevance to us today. The Churches of Christ in Ireland, walking in the faith and order of the gospel, do agree together through the Lord’s assistance, to set apart one […]

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 […]

Preaching Christ: The Life of B A Ramsbottom, by Paul Ramsbotttom, published by Gospel Standard Publications Those who knew Mr Ramsbottom (1929-2023) will need little encouragement from me to buy and read this affectionate biography written by his son, Paul. But those who did not have that privilege and perhaps, like me, did not even […]

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 […]

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 […]

This little book of Meditations on the Sufferings and Death of the Lord Jesus Christ consists of 48 short pieces taken from Hawker’s The Poor Man’s Morning and Evening Portions. This extract is from Meditation 31 on the text ‘But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and […]

Back in 2006, long before The John Gill Project had been thought of, Gospel Standard Trust Publications had a similar idea and published an extract from Gill’s Body of Divinity on Justification. In 2009 we blogged about it… A few years back the Gospel Standard Trust published an extract from John Gill’s Body of Divinity. […]

The Church of Acts Two – The Scriptural Pattern for the Church Today by Matthew Hyde (Gospel Standard Publications, 2023). This book is made up of five sermons preached at Galeed Chapel, Brighton. They are sermons to a particular church within a particular denomination, but they have relevance to all who are seeking to understand […]