What They’re Saying About Banner Books (2012 No. 4)
‘a cracking set of volumes . . . beautiful to behold, excellent in their quality, and outstanding in their substance . . . pastorally sound, eminently practical, thoroughly Christ-centred, happily straightforward expository thoughts, ideal for private or family worship, stimulating for preachers, instructive for pastors, models of earnest simplicity.’
[Jeremy Walker enthuses about the new clothbound set of Ryle’s Expository Thoughts on the Gospels.]
Below are links to selected online reviews of Banner titles, posted August-November 2012. The views expressed are of course those of the respective bloggers. For each title mentioned, a link is also provided to the appropriate page of the Banner online Bookstore, where orders can be placed.
Notes
Jeremy Walker (Crawley, W. Sussex) on his blog The Wanderer.
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels
7 Volume Set
price Original price was: £87.50.£45.00Current price is: £45.00.Description
A new, re-typeset, clothbound edition of Ryle’s popular expositional series on the Gospels. The Expository Thoughts can be used as a help in family worship, or as an aid in pastoral visitation, or simply as a companion to the Gospels in the private reading of Scripture. 288–432 pp. per volume.
Barry Waugh (Greenville, South Carolina) at the Reformation21 website.
Our Southern Zion
Old Columbia Seminary (1828-1927)
price From: £9.00Description
Part collective biography and part narrative history, this book follows the story of Old Columbia Seminary during the years 1828-1927. 408pp.
Gordon Kuhrt (Haddenham, Bucks) on the Anglican website Fulcrum.
Greg Goswell (Melbourne, Victoria) in Australia’s online Christian newspaper New Life (page 17).
Ernest Kevan
Leader in Twentieth Century British Evangelicalism
price From: £7.00Description
A worthy memorial to a man who contributed enormously to the life and thought of English-speaking evangelicalism in the mid-twentieth century, by one of his former students at London Bible College. 312pp.
Bob Thomas (Mitcham, Victoria) in Australia’s online Christian newspaper New Life (page 2).
Christ is Best
or St Paul's Strait
price From: £3.50Description
Endorsement ‘To read the work of a Puritan doctor of the soul is to enter a rich world of spiritual theology to feed the mind, heart-searching analysis to probe the conscience, Christ-centred grace to transform the heart, and wise counsel to direct the life. This series of Pocket Puritans provides all this in miniature, but […]
Kyle Worley (Groves, Texas) on his blog The Strife.
Kyle McDanell (Goshen, Kentucky) on his Blogizomai blog.
Finally, Alan Hill (Montreux, Switzerland) has reviewed four J. C. RYLE titles at The Good Book Stall website:
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