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The staff and trustees of the Banner of Truth are calling on our supporters to join with us in prayer for the next chapter of the work of the Banner of Truth. At various times in history, nations and churches have issued calls to prayer, often in times of crisis. Whatever the rights and wrongs […]

On the 18 May 1843, in Edinburgh, currently the home city of the Banner of Truth headquarters, there was a seismic event in the history of the church in Scotland. This was the day of the Disruption, when almost 500 ministers left the state supported Church of Scotland and formed the Free Church of Scotland. […]

Iain H. Murray’s Amy Carmichael: Beauty for Ashes is a short retelling of the remarkable life of the Irish missionary to India. What follows is Chapter 4 of that title, ‘Hard Days and Golden Years.’ If there was any pattern to Amy Carmichael’s life it was of times of refreshing then of trials, of exhilarating ‘climbing’ […]

The third of six posts containing the substance of teaching given by Albert N. Martin at the 1984 Banner Youth Conference, presenting a basic biblical theology of the Christian life. Principle 3: There is no suspension of the use of our human faculties in the Christian life What are the faculties of a redeemed man? […]

The Banner of Truth Trust is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented individual to join our team as Finance Manager. This role is central to the stewardship of the Trust’s financial resources, supporting the ministry through accurate reporting, strong financial management, and effective systems. Location: Edinburgh (on-site) You will have full responsibility for the accounting function […]

The second of six posts containing the substance of teaching given by Albert N. Martin at the 1984 Banner Youth Conference, presenting a basic biblical theology of the Christian life. Principle 2: There is no escape from tension and conflict in living the Christian life. I do not say that the Christian life is all […]

The first of six posts containing the substance of teaching given by Albert N. Martin at the 1984 Banner Youth Conference, presenting a basic biblical theology of the Christian life. A question of major importance is ‘How am I to live as a Christian’? It is one thing to be certain on biblical grounds that […]

Spurgeon’s Pastoral Wisdom, a selection of C. H. Spurgeon’s articles bearing on church life and pastoral ministry compiled by Geoff Chang, is soon to be released. What follows is a second excerpt from this collection which appeared in the Sword and Trowel magazine in March 1889. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? So say the Latins. Shepherds […]

Spurgeon’s Pastoral Wisdom, a selection of C. H. Spurgeon’s articles bearing on church life and pastoral ministry compiled by Geoff Chang, is soon to be released. Over the next three Mondays we’ll post excerpts which give a flavour of the great biblical and practical wisdom contained in this new volume. The first of these, ‘Against […]

Albert Newton Martin passed into glory on 7 April, just a few days short of his 92nd birthday. He was raised in a Christian home, the second of eleven children born to George and Mildred Martin. Although he always gave intellectual assent to the truths of Scripture taught faithfully by his parents and made repeated […]

The following is excerpted from ‘A Christian on the Mount, Or, A Treatise Concerning Meditation’ in The Works of Thomas Watson, Volume 3 (forthcoming, May/June 2026). You may also read this section in PDF format to see how it is typeset in the forthcoming volume.   And in his law doth he meditate day and […]

What follows is from the ‘Publisher’s Preface’ to our forthcoming five-volume edition of The Works of Thomas Watson. The Banner of Truth Trust was founded in 1957, and early in the following year the Trust published its first books. Thomas Watson’s Body of Divinity was one of them. At that time the book and its author […]

In an appendix to his Thoughts on Religious Experience entitled ‘Counsels to Christian Mothers’, Archibald Alexander makes the following interesting remarks: I take pleasure in saying that in no class of society anywhere have I found examples of more pure and elevated piety than among the ladies of Virginia. And I have reason to believe that these […]

The following is an excerpt from The Works of John Knox, Volume 3, pages 217–226. In a letter from Henry Bullinger, the eminent divine of Zurich, addressed to Calvin on the 26th of March 1554, he says, “I have enclosed in this letter the Answer I made to the Scotsman whom you commended to me. You will […]

The first two episodes of The Covenanter Story are now available. In an article that first appeared in the February edition of the Banner magazine, Joshua Kellard relates why the witness of the Scottish Covenanters is worthy of the earnest attention of evangelical Christians today. In late November of last year, on the hills above […]