Yearly Archives: 2026

This article first appeared at The Australian Presbyterian and is featured in Issue 749 of the Banner of Truth Magazine (February 2026). Somewhere, Stuart Briscoe has commented that three attributes of a pastor are needed: ‘The mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros.’ The last attribute seems […]

In January 1996, Iain H. Murray gave an address at The Bethlehem Conference for Pastors (Minneappolis, U. S. A.) entitled ‘The Preacher and Books.’ The excerpt below is from a section in which Rev. Murray asks how a preacher is to determine which books (and particularly commentaries in this case) he should devote time to […]

Paul Helm, who died on 29 December 2025 at his home in Gloucestershire, was familiar to many readers of The Banner of Truth magazine, having contributed nearly fifty articles on a broad range of theological and historical subjects over the course of half a century, from 1966 to 2018. His books Calvin and the Calvinists, […]