What They’re Saying About Banner Books (2015 No. 3)
‘Iain Murray’s latest work is a brief, accessible biography of Carmichael, I knew I had to give it a go. I’m glad I did.’ – Tim Challies on Amy Carmichael – ‘Beauty for Ashes’: A Biography.
In the Notes below are links to selected online reviews of Banner titles, mostly posted March/April 2015. The views expressed are of course those of the respective bloggers/reviewers. For each title mentioned, a link is also provided to the appropriate page of the Trust’s online Bookstore, where orders can be placed.
Notes
Amy Carmichael – ‘Beauty for Ashes’ has been popular with several reviewers:
Tim Challies (Toronto, Ontario) at his challies.com blog, says that ‘Murray’s biography is short — almost too short — but it is powerful and tells the story of a fascinating life. There are many things we can, and undoubtedly should, learn from Carmichael’s life.’
Catherine Mackenzie (Scotland) at The Gospel Coalition, found it ‘a healthy alternative to the normal Christian hero-worship titles . . . Murray does introduce us to a woman of faith, foibles, and failings.’
Joey Cochran (St Charles, Illinois) has been reading ‘a remarkable story of a woman of faith and peerless virtue’ with his daughter – see here.
Aimee Byrd, the ‘Housewife Theologian’ (Martinsburg, West Virginia), highlights Amy Carmichael’s attractive personality, beautiful legacy, fighting perseverance, and flawed humanity at Books at a Glance.
Amy Carmichael
Beauty for Ashes
price From: £5.80Description
Endorsements ‘This is a love story of the noblest kind. It is an enriching consideration of a woman’s relentless love for her Saviour, her Bible, her friends, and most uniquely, her love for lost, suffering and desperate sinners – to whom she gave her life. Such devotion as hers seems so distant. Reading this brief […]
‘Reading this book and putting into practice its basic theology will set your church in good stead for handling the contemporary cultural storm’ says Carl Trueman (Ambler, Pennsylvania) of James Bannerman’s recently republished The Church of Christ on his Postcards from Palookaville blog.
price From: £14.00Description
Endorsements ‘I am thrilled to see this classic work on Presbyterian polity being reissued. And if you think “thrilled” and “Presbyterian polity” don’t belong in the same sentence, that’s just one more reason we need Bannerman’s book. In a day where the doctrine of the church is often thought obscure, irrelevant, and even divisive, Bannerman […]
He also commends the new Media Gratiae DVD documentary Logic on Fire: The Life and Legacy of Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones (promoted by the Trust) here. ‘With this, and the Bannerman volume, in the space of two weeks, the Banner is at the top of its game . . . all those involved have given the church of today a real gift for which we should all be grateful . . . It is humbling, challenging, and inspiring.’
Logic On Fire
The Life and Legacy of Dr. martyn Lloyd-Jones (DVD Documentary)
price £25.00Description
Logic on Fire is a feature-length documentary with over 4.5 hours of special features, a 128-page book, and much more. View the “DVD Features” below to see all that is included in this 3-DVD special edition set. Cinematic Trailer Product Preview EndorsementsRead More ↓ ‘I think it was Packer who said, to hear Lloyd-Jones was […]
Bob Thomas (Mitcham, Victoria, Australia) found Douglas Higgins: Autobiography of a Yorkshire Christian ‘heart-warming’ and ‘a charming book which glorifies God’, in New Life (March 1, 2015, page 16).
Douglas Higgins
Autobiography of a Yorkshire Christian
price From: £4.80Description
Book Description Not every day does an autobiography appear from a man in his 100th year, but all who know Douglas Higgins never saw him as belonging to the ordinary. From astronomy to Christ at the age of twenty-two, then Art College at Sheffield, war service in the RAF, and a career in school teaching—these […]
Barry Waugh (Greenville, South Carolina), at the Reformed Forum, says of Selected Writings of Benjamin Morgan Palmer: Articles written for The Southwestern Presbyterian in the years 1869-70: ‘the articles in this book show that the work of shepherding is essentially the same despite technological advances and the flow of history. For B. M. Palmer, as today, the gospel must be proclaimed, the converted discipled, and spiritual difficulties counseled.’
Selected Writings of Benjamin Morgan Palmer
Articles written for The Southwestern Presbyterian in the years 1869-70
price £9.50Description
Endorsements ‘No expression of mine is adequate to convey the power of this book. It is to be hoped that readers will rise from these incomparable Selected Writings to the magisterial Life of Benjamin Morgan Palmer, by Thomas Cary Johnson, also published by the Trust.’ , JOHN R. DE WITT ‘Benjamin Morgan Palmer’s life and […]
Terry Delaney (Mexico, Missouri), has been reading the work of another Southern Presbyterian stalwart – Pleading for a Reformation Vision: The Life & Selected Writings of William Childs Robinson (1897-1982) – and says on his Christian Book Notes blog that it is ‘extremely edifying and challenging’ and a ‘clarion call to take up the torch and defend the faith.’
Pleading for a Reformation Vision
The Life and Selected Writings of William Childs Robinson
price From: £9.00Description
The biography and letters of William Childs Robinson: an influential Presbyterian minister in the 20th century, who sounded the vital affirmations of the Protestant Reformation. 336pp.
In an article on Kevin DeYoung’s blog at The Gospel Coalition to encourage the reading of the Puritans – ‘Don’t be scared off from reading the Puritans’ – Jason Helopoulos (East Lansing, Michigan) uses the Puritan Paperback The Bruised Reed by Richard Sibbes as an example. ‘It is a Christian classic for a reason.’
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