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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 [...]
A little known quarryman in Wales
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So you have no children?
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The great harvest
I live and worship in Yeadon, in a church born out of the revival. It
Feminine Threads
I was interested in the above review of Diana Severance's book. Althou
Being counted for Christ
I would pray that god give me courage to do more thanks for this artic