Thomas Boston was one of the outstanding Scottish ministers of the eighteenth century. This week we consider his faithfulness in two small parishes in the Scottish Lowlands, and God's sustaining of him in these difficult charges.

Featured Resource:

G. N. M. Collins, 'How Thomas Boston Beheld the Lamb of God which Taketh Away the Sin of the World,' Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 640 (January 2017)

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Our bonus episode this week is a conversation with Dr Robert Strivens, Banner of Truth Trustee and Director of the recently set-up Reformed Baptist Study Centre. We hear more about Robert, the work of the Banner trustees, and the hopes for the new study centre in this interview recorded at the recent Banner Ministers' Conference in Staffordshire.

Robert's recommendations:

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors

Iain H. Murray, The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1 volume)

Iain H. Murray, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2 volumes)

John Murray, Redemption Accomplished and Applied

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This week's selection is an excursion into Pastor William Shishko's ministerial library, to see which books have fed him as a Christian and as a minister. The result will be of interest not only to other men called to shepherd the Lord's flock, but to every Christian with an appetite to know more of God.

(In Print) Books Mentioned in the Episode:

John Owen, The Glory of Christ (Volume 1 of The Works of John Owen, comprising Owen's Christologia, Or a Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ and Discourses and Meditations on the Glory of Christ)

Gardiner Spring, The Attraction of the Cross (Out of print).

Octavius Winslow, Personal Declension and the Revival of Religion in the Soul

Octavius Winslow, No Condemnation in Christ, as Unfolded in the Eighth Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans

Octavius Winslow, The Work of the Holy Spirit: An Experimental and Practical View

J. C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels

Matthew: https://banneroftruth.org/store/commentaries/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-9/

Mark: https://banneroftruth.org/store/commentaries/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-10/

Luke (I): https://banneroftruth.org/store/commentaries/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-11/

Luke (II): https://banneroftruth.org/store/commentaries/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-12/

John (I): https://banneroftruth.org/store/commentaries/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-13/

John (II): https://banneroftruth.org/store/commentaries/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-14/

John (III): https://banneroftruth.org/store/commentaries/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-15/

William Hendriksen's Commentaries: https://banneroftruth.org/about/banner-authors/william-hendriksen/

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The doctrine of the cross of Christ is not merely a constituent part of the Christian system of belief - it is the beating heart of the Christian message, the saving reality which cannot be known or loved by man in a state of sin and rebellion. The cross mocks human wisdom, exposing its strength as weakness. Maurice Roberts helps us see that only divine wisdom, given by the Holy Spirit, enables us to receive the cross of Christ and its implications.

Featured Resource:

Maurice Roberts, 'What Earth's Princes Never Knew,' Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 370 (July 1994).

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We need regular reminders of the reality and goodness of the glory that awaits those who belong to God. This week, with the help of Eric J. Alexander and R. B. Kuiper, we consider the glorious future of the Church of Jesus Christ.

Featured Resources:

Eric J. Alexander, 'The Coming Glory,' Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 370 (July 1994).

R. B. Kuiper, The Glorious Body of Christ: A Scriptural Appreciation of the One Holy Church (1966, repr. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1967, 2006), p. 364–367 in older editions, p. 372–375 in the clothbound setting of 2025.

The Glorious Body of Christ Product Page

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Infanticide has become normal, acceptable, and even celebrated in the West and around the world. This week we take time to note two events which occurred in March and their significance for the Church's work and witness in defense of unborn children.

Featured Content:

Peter Barnes, 'Abortion: Kermit Gosnell and the Slide to Infanticide,' Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 599–600 (Aug–Sep 2013).

Christian Institute Report on Abortion Decriminalisation:

https://www.christian.org.uk/news/peers-vote-through-extreme-abortion-measure/

Peter Barnes' booklet:

Abortion: Open Your Mouth for the Dumb

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John Newton was a prolific writer of pastoral letters - letters which have been used of the Lord to encourage, challenge, and counsel many people beyond their original recipients.

In this bonus episode, we talk with Grant Gordon, who has studied and collated many of Newton's letters. His volume Wise Counsel, representing many of Newton's letters to the Baptist pastor John Ryland Jr., has now been updated and we hear a bit more about the features of this new edition.

Grant Gordon has pastored a number of baptistic churches in Ontario, Canada, and elsewhere, and served as an adjunct professor of Christian Ethics at Central Baptist Seminary (now Heritage Seminary, Cambridge, Ontario).

Buy Wise Counsel: John Newton's Letters to John Ryland Jr., edited by Grant Gordon

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This week we continue our reading of R. B. Kuiper's sermon, 'Present-Day Antichrists' from his series of sermons on the 'signs of the times' contained in While the Bridegroom Tarries.

We follow this with a reading from Professor John Murray on Kuiper's final (and unfinished work) The Bible Tells Me So.

Featured Resource:

'Present-Day Antichrists' in While the Bridegroom Tarries (1919, repr. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2010).

Other R. B. Kuiper Books Published by Banner:

The Glorious Body of Christ

God-Centred Evangelism

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