We continue the remarkable story of Charlotte Geddie, whose witness to the gospel consisted in her brave, self-denying ministry as a wife, mother, and helpmeet to her missionary husband John.

This week we pick up the story as the Geddies, recently bereft of two of their children, continue making plans to minister in the New Hebrides.

Featured resource:

Joan Kingswood, 'From Island to Island: The Witness of Charlotte Geddie (2)' Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 757 (October 2026).

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David Bissett has served Clifton Park Community Church in upstate New York since 1995. We sat down with him at the East Coast Minister's Conference, where he was kind enough to commend three of his favourite Banner books.

Books mentioned:

Iain H. Murray, Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography

Thomas Manton, Sermons on Psalm 119 (In volumes 6–9 of Manton's Works)

Iain H. Murray, Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism 1750–1858

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Charlotte Geddie was called to be a wife, mother, and helpmeet to her husband James Geddie in almost unimaginably difficult circumstances in the South Seas.

Joan Kingswood began to relate her remarkable testimony in the Summer double issue of the magazine. She writes that Charlotte's life of loving service proved to be a 'living introduction to the message of the gospel her husband proclaimed.'

We read the first instalment of her stirring story on this week's Magazine Monday. Why not listen, be encouraged, and share it with a young woman you know who is eager to follow the Lord's call on her life?

Featured resource:

Joan Kingswood, 'From Island to Island: The Witness of Charlotte Geddie (1)' Banner of Truth Magazine, Issues 755–756 (August & September 2026).

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The Scottish Church, or Kirk, has been blessed with an abundance of theologically-minded pastors and pastorally-gifted theologians in the centuries since the Reformation. Without a survey of these men and their works, however, it can be difficult to know where to start reading.

James Walker's The Theology and Theologians of Scotland can help in this area. The fruit of his 1870–71 Cunningham Lectures on the subject, this is a book which will help the interested reader prize open the treasure chest of Reformed, evangelical Scottish theology.

We read a couple of sections from Walker's first chapter, on John Knox and Thomas Boston, respectively.

First published by T & T Clark, Edinburgh, in 1872, this new clothbound edition in a modern typesetting is based on the second (revised) edition of 1888. Readers will be interested to know that this edition includes seven sermons from the author, the Rev James Walker.

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Banner Trustee Donald John MacLean interviewed on The Theology and Theologians of Scotland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP9gZ-GcHAQ

Many of us struggle with a critical spirit, and a lack of patience with the foibles and weaknesses of others. In such a context, how we need the example and challenge of Barnabas the encourager!

This Monday we continue our consideration of Barnabas and his gift of encouragement with the help of Cecil Siriwardene's 2007 article.

Featured resource:

Cecil Siriwardene, 'Sons and Daughters of Encouragement,' Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 526 (July 2007).

Listen to Part I:

A Son of Encouragement

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What is God's response to a world that rails against him?

Rob Ventura, co-author with William Boekestein of our forthcoming devotional book on the Psalms, God is Our Refuge and Strength, reads the entry for Psalm 2.

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Barnabas, the 'son of encouragement,' was a man willing to give generously, advocate for the misunderstood, and bear patiently with the weaknesses of others.

Today's reading invites us to appreciate afresh those we know who have the gift of encouragement, and to seek to be encouragers ourselves.

Featured resource:

Cecil Siriwardene, 'Sons and Daughters of Encouragement,' Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 526 (July 2007).

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God is Our Refuge and Strength: 150 Devotionals Through the Psalms releases in October.

Through brief, practical expositions of all 150 psalms, this volume proclaims, explains, and applies each one in light of the New Testament and the finished work of Jesus Christ the Lord. These reflections are designed to enlighten the mind, warm the heart, strengthen the hands, point to the Saviour, and encourage the soul.

In this Friday Extra we discuss the book with its authors, William Boekestein and Rob Ventura.

Among other things we ask the following:

— Why write another book on the Psalms?

— Why should we seek greater familiarity with this biblical book?

— What do we do with the 'imprecatory Psalms'?

— How can we read a Psalm with profit when we don't feel like we are connecting with it on an emotional level?

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