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All the way my Saviour leads me

As I look back over my life I am deeply aware of the hand of God upon me. I was born into a non-Christian home in London. My father developed much of Streatham but when he [...]

Commentary on Matthew: The Gospel of the Kingdom

This valuable volume traces the theme of the kingship of Christ through the gospel of Matthew. It begins with the pedigree of the King and ends with His last command to His disciples. Spurgeon’s words speak [...]

The Queen’s diamond jubilee

I begin by declaring that I am a monarchist! I recognise that some of my readers may be convinced republicans. However, I believe that there is value in marking the Queen’s diamond jubilee for a number [...]

Who Chose the Gospels?

This scholarly but well-written book is aimed at two readerships. The first is the ‘liberal’ scholarly community which sees the acceptance of the four gospels in the early church as the outcome of a keen struggle [...]

Thank You, King James

This book comes in the category of ‘as told to’ to James Hastings, for it is largely in the words of Robert Hicks, though his amazing story has been skilfully told by the author. Born to [...]

A Day’s March Nearer Home

Autobiography of J. Graham Miller This unusual autobiography is based on material edited by Iain Murray from nineteen ring-binders of A4 size recorded by Graham Miller until a few years before his death at the age [...]

Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine

This fascinating, well written, book will have limited appeal to most of our readers, but to those who have an interest in historical theology it will prove very illuminating. It covers a great deal of ground [...]

The church as an attractive community

As part of my training for the ministry I became student pastor of a small Baptist church in Kent. Once a fortnight I would spend a weekend visiting the membership and the immediate neighbourhood of our [...]

The blessing of unanswered prayer

There is an arresting line in George Croly’s hymn ‘Spirit of God, descend upon my heart’ (New Christian Hymns, 342) in which he prays ‘teach me the patience of unanswered prayer’. There is another hymn, whose [...]

The missing note in Christian piety

When I was a young Christian in the nineteen-fifties I quite often heard a fellow believer described as a God-fearing man or woman. It is many years since I heard any one so described. The expression [...]