This is the second in the excellent series `Long Line of Godly Men Profiles’ published by Reformation Trust Publishing and edited by Steven Lawson who is also the author of this title. Each of the three books available so far (Calvin, Edwards, Knox) are not biographies as such but give a great insight into what…

I am not one of those many who have been hugely influenced by John Stott. I have appreciated the few of his writings that I have read, with his measured, precise turns of phrase and his ability to clearly explain and apply biblical truth. However, with his recent death, I decided to read this, his…

There are few doctrines more important than that of the nature and authority of Scripture, and few doctrines more under sustained onslaught by Satan; whether it be through full frontal denials by heretics and liberals or the more subtle undermining of its rule as evidenced by many contemporary church practices and teachings. This helpful volume…

Never judge a book by its cover – or its title! I confess I didn’t get what I was expecting when I started reading this unusual book, but I benefitted from it, none the less. What I expected was a sort of profile or character study of a local church which held to and operated…

I have to confess that I became increasingly frustrated as I read this book. Frustrated because I wished I had read it when I was starting out in pastoral ministry 30 years ago and also because what is advocated here is so glaringly obvious and biblical that I wondered why I hadn’t seen it more…