Christian Focus

Covenant Theology

Peter Golding

"A grasp of covenant theology is indispensable to knowing suchessential themes as the Christian and the law of God, baptism,the relationship of old covenant with new, our relationship withAdam and with Christ, the dynamics of the history of redemption,the light cast on the Bible by archaeology and ancient Near-East treaties. The ordinances, the evangelism of children, confessions of faith, the rise of denominations within Protestantism, and even the ministries of John Bunyan and Charles Haddon Spurgeon cannot be appreciated without a grasp of the momentum of covenant theology....Peter Golding has performed an inestimable service in surveying this whole field of theology in such a safe and fascinating manner."

The Cross in the Experience of Our Lord

R. A. Finlayson

"...love its fragrance of a Saviour's dying love for sinners."

Sounds from Heaven

The Revival on the Isle of Lewis, 1949–1952

Colin Peckham

This is the best and most definitive study of the movement of the Spirit of God in the Hebrides during the middle of the twentieth century. There are people who sit and hear us year after year. They are loyal, orthodox, moral people but they lack vitality, discipleship, courage in witness-bearing, prayerfulness - they are rarely present in Prayer Meetings. One longs for a spark, a new insight that takes them over the edge into assurance and holy zeal. Reading the testimonies in the closing chapters of the book describing the radical transformation of the lives of ordinary church goers, gives hope for new life in those who faithfully hear us, but do little more. In matters of the Holy Spirit, never assume anything.

The Hidden Life of Prayer

The life–blood of the Christian

David McIntyre

"It was in 1971 I first read this book I was shown a copy in Al Martin's home and he told me how he used it, which plan I took up enthusiastically and have used ever since. I have read it through aloud during a week of morning meetings with various assistants and with deacons before they have started work... Every time I read it I discover something fresh, convicting and helpful. The book does not make you afraid of prayer. It has a fragrance of Disruption times and the Awakening in the middle of the 19th century, in fact the author was born in that great year of 1859. He later married the daughter of Andrew Bonar and that warm piety and close walk with God characterizes this, McIntyre's best book.

Royal Company

A Devotional on the Song of Solomon

Malcolm MacLean

"Malcolm Maclean's lucid and warm commentary on the book led me into some royal communion with the King of kings. It will help every Christian reader to rest in His love and say with grander assurance, 'This is my beloved and this is my friend."

You Lift Me Up

Overcoming Ministry Challenges

Albert N. Martin

How thrilling was Albert Martin's arrival on the scene in England in the late 60s. He seemed to have taken all that was the very best of evangelical preaching from the Puritans, and the preachers of the Evangelical Awakening, from M'Cheyne in Scotland and from Princeton in New Jersey, from Ryle and Spurgeon, from auditing the classes of John Murray at Westminster Seminary, and he mined all this rich seam of experiential Calvinism and he brought out jewels. He preached to the mind, affections and consciences of his hearers and impacted them so that in the succeeding years as he returned to our conferences the numbers increased. God's blessing was on him and on us. What we experienced in England was also replicated in the USA. Now in retirement from the pastorate this substantial work has appeared. It is on a theme familiar enough to the Puritans, on ministerial credibility and backsliding. How discerning and searching our fathers were in analysing the marks of such declension and the means of ministerial revival. May this be the first of a number of books to come from Albert Martin to the good of the whole church, especially its servants the preachers.

The Greatest Fight in the World

The Final Manifesto

C. H. Spurgeon

There was a mouse who gathered around a number of mice and said to them, "Let me commend to you an elephant. What seems a tree trunk on our right is actually one of his legs and he has three others just like this. His nose from top to bottom is as long as thirty mice end to end. His skin is so tough that we'd break our teeth trying to gnaw it. When he makes a noise it shatters your ear drums. He is so tall I cannot see the top of his head. So be aware of this extraordinary being; be respectful and get out of his way when he walks by because we are so tiny he won't notice us. But he will never knowingly hurt us. He feeds on grass and leaves. He is benign and good. This is the elephant, the king of the jungle." So it is when any preacher today is asked to commend a book of Charles Haddon Spurgeon's. A mouse is going to commend an elephant. We will add nothing at all to his reputation. He is simply utterly immense in his preaching, his energy, the size of his heart, his generosity and humour, his love for God, his discernment and wisdom. Read anything of his, and these addresses towards the end of his life are as good a place to begin to learn about one of God's true giants as any of his writing, and never stop reading him.

A Christian's Pocket Guide to the Papacy

Its origin and role in the 21st century

Leonardo De Chirico

How readable! How fascinating! How important! This book is a page-turner. I kept thinking, "I have it, to whom can I give it?"...Right at the heart of Roman Catholicism there is this giant delusion. You don't believe me? Then read this fascinating and brief book and think for yourself.

The Ministry We Need

The Reformed Pastor

Richard Baxter

The Reformed Pastor is … powerful. We are far too satisfied with scraps of praise from our supporters while the churches decline and the world moves on. This valiant, sensitive attempt to make it even more accessible by upgrading the language giving it a contemporary flavouring is most welcome.

A Basket of Fragments

Notes for Revival

R. M. McCheyne

This book was one of my favourites, and some of the sermons are quite outstanding. Read and see for yourself what the transforming grace of God can work in the life of a young man.

Puritan Piety

Writings in Honor of Joel R. Beeke

Michael A. G. Haykin and Paul M. Smalley

Who more deserves a festschrift than Dr. Joel Beeke for his industry, piety, family life, soundness, catholic spirit, evangelism and warm outgoing personality?

Around the Wicket Gate

Help For Those Who Only Know About Christ

C. H. Spurgeon

… one of the most famous books that the kind, loving, extraordinary Christian,
C. H. Spurgeon, ever wrote. If you are just mildly interested in what is a Christian and how people become followers of Jesus Christ, then there is no more straightforward and fascinating book for you to read but this.

Pressing On, Finishing Well

Learning from Seven Biblical Characters

Michael Black

I felt that I could follow the Lord to the end when I had completed this book. Grace can keep me going … and you too.

Absolutely Basic

The Everlasting righteousness & Regeneration

Horatius Bonar and J. C. Ryle

The hymns of Horatius Bonar are unique. He could be called the greatest of Scottish hymnists for the amount of hymns written and their rich variety of mood, metre and poetic beauty. But he was also an evangelist and a masterful writer, simplifying the profound and fundamental gospel truths of the Westminster Confession. This book on the imputation of Christ’s righteousness is typical. It opens up the heart of the Christian message of grace. It is conjoined to three messages by a contemporary preacher of Bonar’s, the wonderfully lucid and challenging J. C. Ryle. What a rich and helpful combination.

A Radical, Comprehensive Call to Holiness

Joel R. Beeke and Michael P. V. Barrett

This book has come to you at this moment to help you magnificently to address your life, and increasingly so, to this incredible end of attaining more and more of the holiness of God. What a goal! What a heavenly purpose for daily living. Pursue it by His sufficient grace!

The Fiery Edge of Love

A Collection of Quotes from Samuel Rutherford

Samuel Rutherford

This is a delightfully enjoyable introduction to one of the greatest of all Scotsmen, Samuel Rutherford. … consider slowly this magnificent selection of the most vivid and memorable quotations of Rutherford which make up the bulk of the book. He makes God lovingly real and near and beautiful.

A New Exposition of the London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689

Rob Ventura

In a most attractive, readable and scholarly way this rich volume presents historic Christianity as Baptists have absorbed it and been confessing it for the last 333 years in this grand statement of our best Confession of Faith. This book is a tremendous achievement.

Expository Outlines and Observations on Romans

Hints and Helps for Preachers and Teachers

Rob Ventura

Rob Ventura is an author, scholar, and pastor–preacher with the gift of expressing New Testament theology in clear, elegant prose. Reading him in full flow in his new commentary on Romans affords the simple pleasure of watching an expert do what they do best.

Baptised With Heavenly Power

The Holy Spirit in the Teaching and Experience of D. Martyn Lloyd–Jones

Philip H. Eveson

This is an enormously valuable book … I determined to purchase three copies for the three of my grandsons who are preachers. How helpful they will find it!

Upheld

A Widow’s Story of Love, Grief and the Constancy of God

Christine Farenhorst

This is the most readable book I have held in my hands for many years. It is a page turner, a book without cliches, full of pathos as well as humor – I chuckled aloud often as I read some of it, and also had a lump in my throat as I read other parts,
quite un–put–down–able.