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The following article appeared in the August–September edition of the Banner of Truth Magazine. To receive a monthly selection of helpful articles on theology, church history, the Christian life, and contemporary issues, subscribe to the magazine in print or digital formats. Introduction The Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council, was convened in AD 325 […]| Banner of Truth USA
The March 2006 issue of the Banner of Truth Magazine (no. 510) was dedicated to the memory of David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, on the 25th anniversary of his death. That issue included some fascinating detail about how Dr Lloyd-Jones (henceforth ML-J) assisted Arnold Dallimore in the writing of his two-volume biography of George Whitefield. The article […]| Banner of Truth USA
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Book Description Despite his other achievements, Owen is best famed for his writings. These cover the range of doctrinal, ecclesiastical and practical subjects. They are characterized by profundity, thoroughness and, consequently, authority. Andrew Thomson said that Owen ‘makes you feel when he has reached the end of his subject, that he has also exhausted it.’ […]| Banner of Truth USA
A collection of meditations on Romans 8:6. 264pp.| Banner of Truth USA
In this invaluable study we find Smeaton’s sensitive theological acumen, his skill in judicious exposition, and his evident devotion to the person of Jesus Christ. Like its companion volume, The Apostles’ Doctrine of the Atonement, a work to be read and re-read. 520pp.| Banner of Truth USA
The following excerpt is from George Smeaton’s Christ’s Doctrine of the Atonement (pp. 157–160). The third exclamation of the conscious sin-bearer was the cry, “My God, My God! why hast Thou forsaken Me?” (Matt. 27:46.) It was like all His sayings, according to truth; and it becomes us carefully to investigate its import and significance. […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following is taken from Thomas Brooks, The Secret Key to Heaven: The Vital Importance of Private Prayer (Puritan Paperbacks). After detailing the great privilege of private prayer, and why it is of the essence of the true Christian life, he anticipates and answers several common objections to its practice: First Objection. But many will […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following excerpt is from Frans Bakker’s Praying Always, truly one of the hidden gems of the Banner’s backlist. ‘And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.’ — Luke 18:13 After the Israelites had […] The post Humble Prayer — Frans Bakker appeared first on Banner of Truth USA.| Banner of Truth USA
The following excerpt is from Ned B. Stonehouse, J. Gresham Machen: A Biographical Memoir (1954; repr. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth 2019, 2020). The unwearied and effective manner in which Machen brought into sharp focus the centrality of the Christian view of history and its decisive significance for the understanding of the gospel must be noted. […] The post The Impact of Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism appeared first on Banner of Truth USA.| Banner of Truth USA
The following is taken from Archibald Alexander, Thoughts on Religious Experience, page 279. “Let not the infirm and aged say that they can now do nothing for God. They can do much; and for ought they can tell, more than they ever did in the days of their vigour. It is a beautiful sight to see men […] The post ‘Let not the aged say…’ appeared first on Banner of Truth USA.| Banner of Truth USA
The following is taken from Archibald Alexander, Thoughts on Religious Experience, page 279. “Let not the infirm and aged say that they can now do nothing for God. They can do much; and for ought they can tell, more than they ever did in the days of their vigour. It is a beautiful sight to see men […] The post ‘Let not the aged say…’ appeared first on Banner of Truth USA.| Banner of Truth USA
The following is taken from Archibald Alexander, Thoughts on Religious Experience, page 279. “Let not the infirm and aged say that they can now do nothing for God. They can do much; and for ought they can tell, more than they ever did in the days of their vigour. It is a beautiful sight to see men […] The post ‘Let not the aged say…’ appeared first on Banner of Truth USA.| Banner of Truth USA
Beginning on 26 September 1680, John Owen preached three consecutive sermons from 1 Corinthians 15:31, opening up Paul’s statement ‘I die daily.’ At points he is intensely personal, preaching to himself, preparing for his own death which took place almost three years later on 24 August 1683. He was also aware of other noteworthy men […] The post John Owen on Dying Comfortably appeared first on Banner of Truth USA.| Banner of Truth USA
The Banner of Truth Trust has always been an organization which longs for the true revival of religion. Indeed, in many ways, that desire is the pulse beat of the Banner. But what revival is, and why we long for it, is often misunderstood. Indeed, the original preface to this volume begins by noting, “The […] The post The Revival of Religion: Publisher’s Introduction appeared first on Banner of Truth USA.| Banner of Truth USA
The following article is the editorial from the July 2025 issue of the Banner of Truth Magazine. You can purchase the issue here, and subscribe to the magazine for monthly features on Christian life, faith, and doctrine. If you were to ask the question, ‘Who needs a creed?’ the answer from many would probably be, […] The post Who Needs a Creed? appeared first on Banner of Truth USA.| Banner of Truth USA
Dr Robert White has translated a number of the works of John Calvin for the Banner of Truth Trust, including a respected edition of the Reformer’s 1541 Institutes of the Christian Religion. Joshua Kellard, Communications Manager at the Banner, recently interviewed Robert by email, to find out a bit more about his background, translation work, […] The post On Translating Calvin: An Interview with Robert White appeared first on Banner of Truth USA.| Banner of Truth USA
‘Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!’ So writes the Psalmist in Psalm 120, lamenting his extended time living among ‘those who hate peace’ (verse 6). It is a cry to which the Christian living in twenty-first century Britain can relate. We are reminded almost daily […] The post Living as Pilgrims, Being Faithful in Ministry: Banner UK Spring Conference Report appeared first on Banner of Truth USA.| Banner of Truth USA
‘Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!’ So writes the Psalmist in Psalm 120, lamenting his extended time living among ‘those who hate peace’ (verse 6). It is a cry to which the Christian living in twenty-first century Britain can relate. We are reminded almost daily […] The post Living as Pilgrims, Being Faithful in Ministry: Banner UK Spring Conference Report appeared first on Banner of Truth USA.| Banner of Truth USA
A sermon on the dead who die in the Lord, and the living Lord who owns them from 4 October 1885.| Banner of Truth USA
The Lord Jesus had 'neither form nor comeliness', wrote Isaiah. Yet those called by God see his divine glory by the Spirit's power.| Banner of Truth USA
Above all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, supplications and thanksgivings be made for all men, for kings and for those appointed to high office, so that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, in all godliness and decency. (1 Timothy 2:1-2) As long as we are busy doing good, the devil has less […]| Banner of Truth USA
There is a shortage of gospel ministers in the evangelical churches. Donald John MacLean explores how we can and must respond.| Banner of Truth USA
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) might justly be called 'the father of the English hymn'. But what do we know about the man himself?| Banner of Truth USA
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The following post first appeared as Picture This… on the Gentle Reformation website. Permit me to ride a hobby horse of mine for a few minutes! I want to issue a plea for an exegetically informed gifted illustrator to produce illustrations for a really excellent children’s Bible story book. I wonder how many children grow […]| Banner of Truth USA
An abridgement of Calvin's comments on Psalm 73.| Banner of Truth USA
A free sample chapter from Nick Needham's book 'Shapers of Christianity' (paperback, 112 pages).| Banner of Truth USA
John Murray was arguably the premier Reformed theologian of the twentieth century. He was born and brought up in a small crofting community in the Highlands of Scotland and was shaped by the piety and confessional rigour of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland in which his father was a much respected elder. However, through […]| Banner of Truth USA
Resources by John Calvin| Banner of Truth USA
A sermon on the dead who die in the Lord, and the living Lord who owns them from 4 October 1885.| Banner of Truth USA
The following post first appeared as Picture This… on the Gentle Reformation website. Permit me to ride a hobby horse of mine for a few minutes! I want to issue a plea for an exegetically informed gifted illustrator to produce illustrations for a really excellent children’s Bible story book. I wonder how many children grow […]| Banner of Truth USA
An abridgement of Calvin's comments on Psalm 73.| Banner of Truth USA
From time to time we receive questions about the editing of the Banner of Truth edition (first printed 1961) of A. W. Pink’s The Sovereignty of God. Here we reproduce the text of Chapter 16 of Iain H. Murray’s The Life of Arthur Pink, which deals at length with these questions: As we have seen, it […]| Banner of Truth USA
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Anne Ross Cousin is best known as the authoress of the hymn, The sands of time are sinking. Its nineteen verses (in its original form) are based on the death-bed sayings of a remarkable seventeenth century Scottish preacher, Samuel Rutherford. What is not so well known is that Anne Ross Cousin put into verse some […]| Banner of Truth USA
Chapter Two of Oliver Heywood's book 'Heart Treasure'| Banner of Truth USA
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. — Joshua 24:15 ‘LET me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!’ (Num. 23:10). We have said, my brethren, on a former occasion, that if we would die his death, we must live his life. It is […]| Banner of Truth USA
Jeremy Walker, pastor at Maidenbower Baptist Church, surveys a number of recent Banner titles. The republication of Puritan volumes has gathered pace in recent decades. That very proliferation brings a challenge: where to begin? Which Puritans wrote about which topics? Where can I at least dip into the writings of such men about pertinent and […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following article from the pen of A. W. Pink appeared in the January 1978 issue of the Banner of Truth Magazine, no. 172. It was the New Year message from Studies in the Scriptures, January 1939. The dawning of a new year is a fresh call unto each of us to put first things […]| Banner of Truth USA
This is about the person who has given his name to Christmas, Jesus Christ. It will only take you a few moments to read. A single word— special—sums up why you shouldn’t grudge the time. Special person Had you seen Jesus after he was born in Bethlehem special is not the word that would have […]| Banner of Truth USA
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The following short article appeared in Issue 690 of the Banner of Truth Magazine (March 2021). The first volume of William Cunningham’s works to be prepared for the press by his literary executors, James Buchanan and James Bannerman, was The Reformers and the Theology of the Reformation. It was published in 1862, a few months […]| Banner of Truth USA
We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, the deeds You did in their days, In days of old. —Psalm 44:1 (NKJV). The early years of the Free Church of Scotland in the mid-nineteenth century produced literature of enduring value for the Christian church. Much of that emanated from the […]| Banner of Truth USA
Two desperately sad announcements were posted a few weeks ago, by Trinity Bible Church in Dallas and the board of OnePassion Ministries: The elders at Trinity Bible Church of Dallas regretfully announce that effective immediately, Steven J. Lawson has been removed indefinitely from all ministry activities at Trinity Bible Church of Dallas. Several days ago, […]| Banner of Truth USA
‘The best thought-breeder in all our library’ — Spurgeon. 1240pp.| Banner of Truth USA
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The following constitutes chapter 14 (pages 333–362) in J. C. Ryle’s Knots Untied: Being Plain Statements on Disputed Points in Religion, From the Standpoint of an Evangelical Churchman Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.—Exod. 20:8. THERE is a subject in the present day which demands the serious attention of all professing Christians […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following is from John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion (1541 ed.), Chapter 3, ‘The Law’, and the section on the Fourth Commandment. Note also the addendum, featuring a selection from Iain H. Murray’s booklet Rest in God: And a Calamity in Contemporary Christianity which notes how Calvin’s thinking on the Sabbath developed from […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following is taken from William Gurnall’s The Christian in Complete Armour, pages 119–121. There is a law in wrestling which must be observed. If a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully, 2 Timothy 2:5. He alludes to the Roman games, to which there were judges appointed […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following excerpt is from George Newton’s exposition of John 17:24 in the volume George Newton on John 17. DOCTRINE: It is the will of Jesus Christ that all that are his own by the donation of the Father shall be in heaven where he is. There are two things in the doctrine which I […]| Banner of Truth USA
Having your children with you in worship can be hard. It can be hard for the parents, for the children, and for the rest of the congregation. The squirming, the shuffling of papers, the loud whispers, and the louder cries, all can make it challenging to have our children with us in corporate worship. But […]| Banner of Truth USA
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The following excerpt is from D. C. Macnicol’s book, Master Robert Bruce: Minister in the Kirk of Edinburgh. THE public life of Master Robert Bruce in the city of Edinburgh was cast in troublous times. His ministry in the Church of St Giles had an influence which was quite unique, and the voice which found […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following is the text of Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s address at the 1975 Puritan Conference, entitled ‘The Christian and the State in Revolutionary Times’: The French Revolution and After. This address appears in The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors. Our object in studying this subject of the Christian and the State in Revolutionary Times […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following excerpt is taken from Chapter 2 of Iain H. Murray’s The Forgotten Spurgeon (pages 46–64). Mr Spurgeon is a Calvinist, which few of the dissenting ministers in London now are. He preaches salvation, not of man’s free will, but of the Lord’s good will, which few in London, it is to be feared, […]| Banner of Truth USA
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The following excerpt is from Chapter IV of Robert H. Ireland’s Light from Calvary: The Seven Last Words of Jesus, first published in 1873 and out this summer in a Banner edition. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following excerpt is from C. H. Spurgeon’s Pictures from Pilgrim’s Progress: A Commentary on Portions of John Bunyan’s Immortal Allegory, forthcoming in summer 2024. WHEN Christian and Hopeful left the Delectable Mountains to pursue their way towards the Celestial City the shepherds bade them ‘Beware of the Flatterer.’ They learned afterwards, by sad experience, […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following, which appeared in Issues 611–612 of the Banner of Truth Magazine (Aug–Sep 2014) is from John Angell James, The Anxious Inquirer After Salvation Directed and Encouraged*. We are grateful to Mr Martyn Jolly for bringing this extract to our attention and supplying the text. It may seem strange to some persons, that I […]| Banner of Truth USA
This is the text of an address delivered at the Leicester Ministers’ Conference, 28 April, 2012. It is included, along with four other addresses, in Iain H. Murray’s Evangelical Holiness and Other Addresses. J. Gresham Machen once wrote: ‘If we are going to avoid controversy, we might as well close our Bibles; for the New […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following excerpt is taken from Chapter 2 of Archibald Alexander’s Thoughts on Religious Experience. That conviction of sin is a necessary part of experimental religion, all will admit; but there is one question respecting this matter, concerning which there may be much doubt; and that is, whether a law-work, prior to regeneration, is necessary; […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following excerpt is taken from Chapter 2 of Archibald Alexander’s Thoughts on Religious Experience. It is an interesting question whether now there are any persons sanctified from the womb. If the communication of grace ever took place at so early a period of human existence, there is no reason why it should not now […]| Banner of Truth USA
1. Jesus Claim: Jesus had no interest in maintaining a male-female requirement for sexual relations. What the evidence really shows: Jesus believed that a male-female requirement for sexual relations was foundational, a core value of Scripture’s sexual ethics on which other sexual standards should be based, including the ‘twoness’ of a sexual union. Jesus predicated […]| Banner of Truth USA
Ernest Kevan sought to teach believers a balanced, biblical view of the place of the law in the life of a regenerate Christian...| Banner of Truth USA
The following summary of Ernest Kevan’s book The Grace of Law: a Study in Puritan Theology is an appendix in Paul E. Brown’s Ernest Kevan: Leader in Twentieth Century. THE PUBLISHED VERSION OF Dr Kevan’s thesis is a volume of just under three hundred pages. With its many quotations and footnotes it appears quite formidable. […]| Banner of Truth USA
At the cross of Christ we see God's justice, God's holiness, and preeminently God's love.| Banner of Truth USA
The following is the first part of Sibbes’s sermon The Tender Heart, which is published with three other sermons as Josiah’s Reformation in the Puritan Paperback series. “And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the Lord, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following post first appeared (on October 24, 2016) on www.reformation21.org, a blog run by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. It is posted here with their kind permission. After a cracking day at the Evangelical Library in London on “Reading John Owen” (opening, it has to be said, with Nigel Graham giving what may be […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following excerpt is from The Mysteries of Christianity: Revealed Truths Expounded and Defended, ‘Lecture 6: The Trinity’. This post is the second part of the chapter, and it is recommended that the reader begins with the first part, on the mystery of God’s unity. Having made these remarks on the unity of God in […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following excerpt is from The Mysteries of Christianity: Revealed Truths Expounded and Defended, ‘Lecture 6: The Trinity’. ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord.’ —Deut. 6:4. ‘Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.’ —Matt. […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following excerpt is the text of Chapter 5, ‘How to Meditate on Heavenly Things’ in Spiritual-Mindedness, a Puritan Paperback by John Owen which has been abridged and made easy to read by R. J. K. Law. The unabridged text of this treatise, originally entitled The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually-Minded, is contained in […]| Banner of Truth USA
The third exclamation of the conscious sin-bearer was the cry, "My God, My God! why hast Thou forsaken Me?" (Matt. 27:46.)| Banner of Truth USA
The following is taken from Thomas Brooks, The Secret Key to Heaven: The Vital Importance of Private Prayer (Puritan Paperbacks). After detailing the great privilege of private prayer, and why it is of the essence of the true Christian life, he anticipates and answers several common objections to its practice: First Objection. But many will […]| Banner of Truth USA
Think about someone being selected and sent to do an especially difficult job. Some major crisis has arisen, or some massive problem needs to be tackled, and it requires the knowledge, the experience, the skill-set, the leadership that they so remarkably possess. It was like that with Jesus. Entrusted to him by God the Father […]| Banner of Truth USA
An excerpt from John Owen, 'The Holy Spirit' (Puritan Paperback).| Banner of Truth USA
The following was given as a radio address for the BBC in Wales, 25 June, 1944 and is featured in Knowing the Times: Addresses Delivered on Various Occasions, 1942–1977. Nothing is more significant of the great change which has happened in the field of theology during the past twenty years than the place now afforded, […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following words, so contemporary in their feeling and import, come from John Kennedy (presumably of Dingwall), and were published in the 6th Issue of the Banner of Truth Magazine (May, 1957). In times such as ours it is easy to seem a bigot, if one keeps a firm hold of truth, and is careful […]| Banner of Truth USA
The following excerpt is the first chapter of The Glory of Christ, R. J. K. Law’s Puritan Paperback abridgement of John Owen’s Meditations on the Glory of Christ which appears in Volume 1 of his Works. When the high priest under the law was about to enter the holy place on the day of atonement, […]| Banner of Truth USA
The meditations below are from the Memoirs of the Rev. James Fraser of Brea, Minister of the Gospel at Culross, Written by Himself, as they appear in Vol. II of Scottish Puritans: Select Biographies. Fraser lived and ministered at a time of great trouble for the Church in Scotland, when those who had signed the […]| Banner of Truth USA
Here’s something that happened just over seven hundred years ago. On the 24th of June 1314 a famous victory was won by the Scots over the English at a place called Bannockburn. I mention it not because I am a Scot and Bannockburn is one of the outstanding events in our national history but rather […]| Banner of Truth USA
Many think that Jesus was a “great teacher,” but often such people do not know what He taught about Himself: Jesus Christ said that He was the Messiah the Jews had awaited for over 700 years. John 4:25–26: ‘The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When […]| Banner of Truth USA
Near the end of his life, Augustine of Hippo meticulously reviewed everything he had ever published. He wrote an entire catalogue of his own works...| Banner of Truth USA
Be of good cheer, O men of women born, and expect untold blessings, for ‘unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.’| Banner of Truth USA
We have much to learn from the 17th Century pastor.| Banner of Truth USA
The following sermon is excerpted from Sermons on the Beatitudes. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst on account of righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for mercy will be shown them (Matt. 5:5–7). Then lifting up his eyes upon […]| Banner of Truth USA
