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Picture This: A Plea for Realism in Children’s Bible Illustration

The following post first appeared as Picture This… on the Gentle Reformation website. Permit me to ride a hobby horse of mine for a few minutes! I want to issue a plea for an exegetically informed gifted illustrator to produce illustrations for a really excellent children’s Bible story book. I wonder how many children grow […]

Author Warren Peel

Category Articles

Date April 24, 2025

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‘I Was Envious of the Arrogant…’: Calvin on Psalm 73

I Was Envious of the Arrogant Until I Went into the Sanctuary Beginning by extolling God, the author of this psalm contends against the judgment of carnal sense and reason. He confesses that when he compared the prosperity and indulgence of the wicked with the cares and sorrows of the righteous, he was tempted to […]

Author John Calvin

Category Book Excerpts

Date April 15, 2025

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Pink on The Sovereignty of God–Iain H. Murray

From time to time we receive questions about the editing of the Banner of Truth edition (first printed 1961) of A. W. Pink’s The Sovereignty of God. Here we reproduce the text of Chapter 16 of Iain H. Murray’s The Life of Arthur Pink, which deals at length with these questions: As we have seen, it […]

Author A. W. Pink

Category Book Excerpts

Date February 27, 2025

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The Death-Bed of John Knox: A Poem, by Anne Ross Cousin

Anne Ross Cousin is best known as the authoress of the hymn, The sands of time are sinking. Its nineteen verses (in its original form) are based on the death-bed sayings of a remarkable seventeenth century Scottish preacher, Samuel Rutherford. What is not so well known is that Anne Ross Cousin put into verse some […]

Author David Campbell

Category Articles

Date February 18, 2025

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The Nature of a Treasure: Oliver Heywood Excerpt

An excerpt from ‘Heart Treasure, or The Furniture of a Holy Soul,’ by Rev. Oliver Heywood, a Presbyterian Pastor in the second half of the 17th century.    Introduction ‘I first came across the book, Heart Treasure by Oliver Heywood, in a box of old books in a furniture barn in the town of Central, South […]

Author Oliver Heywood

Category Book Excerpts

Date February 4, 2025

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