What They’re Saying About Banner Books (2015 No. 4)
‘A most enjoyable new book about old authors and their continuing influence.’ – Fred G. Zaspel on You Must Read: Books That Have Shaped Our Lives.
In the Notes below are links to selected online reviews of Banner titles, mostly posted May/June 2015. The views expressed are of course those of the respective bloggers/reviewers. For each title mentioned, a link is also provided to the appropriate page of the Trust’s online Bookstore, where orders can be placed.
Notes
A ‘guide to some of the great books of the church that have influenced countless Christians’ says Fred G. Zaspel (Franconia, Pennsylvania) of the recently published You Must Read: Books That Have Shaped Our Lives at Books at a Glance. His interview with Sinclair B. Ferguson about the book can be found here.
In New Life (July 15, 2015, page 13), Bob Thomas (Mitcham, Victoria, Australia) found You Must Read ‘a bit like opening a window into each contributor’s Christian life and ministry’.
Amy Carmichael
Beauty for Ashes
price From: $7.00Description
Endorsements ‘This is a love story of the noblest kind. It is an enriching consideration of a woman’s relentless love for her Saviour, her Bible, her friends, and most uniquely, her love for lost, suffering and desperate sinners – to whom she gave her life. Such devotion as hers seems so distant. Reading this brief […]
Iain H. Murray’s biography Amy Carmichael – ‘Beauty for Ashes’ continues to be popular:
‘Be ready to be challenged by reading of the life and work of a servant of God who taught the Gospel and sought to live out that Gospel’ warns Mignon Goswell (Australia) in New Life (June 1, 2015, page 15).
Gary Brady (London) at his Heavenly Worldliness blog, says ‘this little book is very useful in its ability not only to give the basic story but to attempt some perceptive theological analysis as well.’
The Church of Christ
A Treatise on the Nature, Powers, Ordinances, Discipline, and Government of the Christian Church
price From: $20.00Description
Endorsements ‘I am thrilled to see this classic work on Presbyterian polity being reissued. And if you think “thrilled” and “Presbyterian polity” don’t belong in the same sentence, that’s just one more reason we need Bannerman’s book. In a day where the doctrine of the church is often thought obscure, irrelevant, and even divisive, Bannerman […]
Jeff Kingswood (Woodstock, Ontario) asks (and answers!) the question ‘Why read James Bannerman’s The Church of Christ?’ at The Confessional ARP blog. ‘It is a work of theology that leads us through God’s plan and purpose for Christ’s Church and enables us to love the Bride of our Saviour more and more.’
The Korean Pentecost
and the Sufferings which Followed
price From: $8.00Description
Endorsements ‘[The Korean Pentecost] Shows what God can do when His people take Him at His Word.’ — J.G. VOS ‘A faithful and stirring record of the Lord’s doings.’ — EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIAN ‘A deeply moving account.’ — BIBLIOTHECA SACRA Book Description In 1977 the Trust published this remarkable account of the first 60 years or […]
‘This is the kind of story that needs to be in every home. More than merely biography or history, it is a gripping portrait of what Christianity should be.’ Jimmy Reagan (Leesville, South Carolina) commends the re-published The Korean Pentecost and the Sufferings which Followed by William Blair and Bruce Hunt at The Reagan Review.
Fred G. Zaspel (Franconia, Pennsylvania) is also enthusiastic about this ‘deeply moving account of an often overlooked chapter of Christian history’ at Books at a Glance.
The new booklet by Iain D. Campbell, Faith Seeking Understanding: Vital Lessons from Psalm 73 is ‘an attractive, well laid out and readable booklet . . . the type of book to read for our own growth in understanding of the ways of God and then pass on to others’ according to Bob Thomas (Mitcham, Victoria, Australia) in New Life (June 15, 2015, page 13).
Logic On Fire
The Life and Legacy of Dr. martyn Lloyd-Jones (DVD Documentary)
price Original price was: $40.00.$36.00Current price is: $36.00.Description
Logic on Fire is a feature-length documentary with over 4.5 hours of special features, a 128-page book, and much more. View the “DVD Features” below to see all that is included in this 3-DVD special edition set. Cinematic Trailer Endorsements ‘I think it was Packer who said, to hear Lloyd-Jones was not so much to […]
Terry Delaney (Mexico, Missouri) has been watching the new Media Gratiae DVD documentary Logic on Fire: The Life and Legacy of Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones (promoted by the Trust). His verdict, on his Christian Book Notes blog – ‘Every young pastor should watch this documentary. The fire for preaching exuding from the life of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones is contagious.’
The Beatitudes
An exposition of Matthew 5:1-10
price Original price was: $28.00.$25.20Current price is: $25.20.Description
Endorsements ‘What announces itself as an exposition of Matthew 5:1-10 turns out to be a digest of all the central Puritan teaching on the Christian life. The Beatitudes are treated as mineshafts into the whole economy of grace , as indeed they are.’ — J.I. PACKER Book Description The opening verses of the best-known of all […]
Terry Delaney – here – is also enthused by the Trust’s new edition of Thomas Watson’s The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-10. ‘Wow! . . . Watson leaves no stone unearthed in his treatment of these glorious foundational truths of the Christian life.’
Another of Watson’s works, the Puritan Paperback The Doctrine of Repentance is ‘weighty, heart-searching stuff, but done with a winsome lightness of touch’, says Guy Davies (Westbury, Wiltshire) on his Exiled Preacher blog.
The Valley of Vision
A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions
price From: $12.00Description
A best-selling collection of prayers and meditations in the Puritan tradition. Paperback 240pp.
Finally, Joey Cochran (St Charles, Illinois), at the Gospel-centered Library on his website, found his ‘own prayer life to be transformed because of the many truths [he’s] embraced and learned from this book of prayer – The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions.
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