Church & Ministry
The books and booklets on this page cover important practical and theological topics regarding church and ministry. These books will help pastors lead their congregations and will be a help to church members seeking to serve their church more faithfully. The audio from the Banner of Truth Ministers’ Conferences can also be found here. Popular titles include Reading the Bible and Praying in Public by Stuart Olyott and Rest in God by Iain H. Murray.
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Spurgeon’s Pastoral Wisdom
Articles on the Church and the Ministry from The Sword and the Trowel
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892) was the famous pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London in the nineteenth century. Under his preaching, the once-dying church was revived and became an engine for evangelism, pastoral training, missions, and church planting. But Spurgeon wanted to see more than just his church thriving. He had a heart to see […]
Thoughts on Preaching
Being Contributions to Homiletics with an additional article, ‘The Lord Jesus Christ the Example of the Minister’
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*New Retypeset Edition* Few things are more helpful to preachers than the thoughts of a great preacher. In this volume we have such Thoughts on Preaching from the illustrious pen of Dr James W. Alexander. First published posthumously in 1864, it contains sections from his private writings with their illuminating comments on the work of […]
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Argues that the church must maintain the ‘priority of preaching’ for both biblical and theological reasons and offers helpful practical advice. 32pp.
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Argues that the church must maintain the ‘priority of preaching’ for both biblical and theological reasons and offers helpful practical advice. 32pp.
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Argues that the church must maintain the ‘priority of preaching’ for both biblical and theological reasons and offers helpful practical advice. 32pp.
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Book Description The church is not yours or mine. It belongs to Jesus Christ. The church is graciously called into being by him for the glory and honour of God’s name. As such, every local church must reflect God’s character and display God’s holiness. For that reason, life in a healthy, happy church always involves […]
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Book Description A man of good scholarship, sterling character, wide sympathies, and tremendous zeal, J. C. Ryle accounted it no light thing to be entrusted with the work of organizing and advancing the cause of God and truth in a diocese noted for its extensive industrial development and in a city of world fame. As […]
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Book Description David F. Wells of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Massachusetts, here challenges evangelicalism with a disturbing analysis of its present condition. He believes that we have allowed ourselves to be shaped by the popular culture whose ethos is alien to God-consciousness, to ‘other-worldliness’, and to passion for biblical truth. In putting ‘success’ before theology we […]
The Pastor
His Call, Character, and Work
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Book Description Written by faculty and friends of Old Princeton, with an introduction by Sinclair B. Ferguson. The authors included in this small clothbound collection: William S. Plumer (1802-80) J. W. Alexander (1804-59) Archibald Alexander (1771-1851) Charles Hodge (1797-78) Samuel Miller (1769-1850) Ashbel Green (1762-1848) Nicholas Murray (1802-61) The authors of The Pastor: His Call, […]
An All-Round Ministry
Direction, Wisdom, and Encouragement for Preachers and Pastors
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Book Description One of Charles Haddon Spurgeon’s most significant ministries was to the hundreds of preachers who were trained in the Pastors’ College which he founded. In 1865 he began an Annual Conference for these men at which he customarily delivered a presidential address. The most outstanding of these were reprinted after his death in […]
The Greatest Fight in the World
Spurgeon's Final Manifesto
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Book Description By April 1891, when Spurgeon addressed the annual conference of the Pastors’ College for the last time, he was an experienced and battle-worn soldier. Spurgeon considered it the life-work of a pastor to be engaged in a crusade against error and sin. He fully appreciated what it was to ‘fight the good fight […]
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