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Spurgeon and Church Unity (1/3)
How ought the godly to respond when the church body, denomination, or union of which they are members becomes overrun by false teaching? Should unity be preserved at all costs, or is there a time to separate? If separation occurs, what are the implications for the unity of the true church? These questions concerning the unity and purity of the church are not straightforward to answer.
Christian, a Better Day is Coming
This week’s Friday Extra is a reading, by William Boekestein, of the entry for Psalm 13 in the new Banner title he has co-authored with Rob Ventura, God is Our Refuge and Strength: 150 Devotionals Through the Psalms. The book releases in North America on 13 October, and will be available in the UK and World store from early December.
Westminster Wednesdays: The Announcement
We’re delighted to announce a new series coming to the Banner Podcast and Youtube channel—Westminster Wednesdays—starting, Lord-willing, on Wednesday, 28 October. In a Christian world saturated with discipleship resources, the Westminster Shorter Catechism has stood the test of time as an edifying summary of Christian truth, well adapted to use in churches and in the Christian home. But how can we deepen our meditation on the truths of the catechism? How can we get ready to teach it to others?
Jehovah's Witnesses and Christians: What Are the Essential Differences?
Jehovah’s Witnesses claim to be Christians, but there are irreconcilable differences between the teachings of the Watchtower and the teachings of the Bible. We focus on three of these key differences for this week’s Magazine Monday episode, as we read a letter from a former Jehovah’s Witness who came to a real faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
On Robert Traill and Justification Vindicated
It’s often helpful to know something of the backstory of a book. In this Friday Extra, Banner trustee Dr Donald John MacLean helps us get to grips with a church controversy that broke out in and around London in the 1690s. One of the happy results of that unhappy conflict was a short book on salvation written by the Scottish Divine and survivor of the Bass Rock, Robert Traill (1642–1716).
Charlotte Geddie's Titus 2 Life
We continue the remarkable story of Charlotte Geddie, whose witness to the gospel consisted in her brave, self-denying ministry as a wife, mother, and helpmeet to her missionary husband John. This week we pick up the story as the Geddies, recently bereft of two of their children, continue making plans to minister in the New Hebrides. Featured resource: Joan Kingswood, ‘From Island to Island: The Witness of Charlotte Geddie (2)’ Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 757 (October 2026).
David Bissett Shares Three Favourite Books
David Bissett has served Clifton Park Community Church in upstate New York since 1995. We sat down with him at the East Coast Minister’s Conference, where he was kind enough to commend three of his favourite Banner books. Books mentioned: Iain H. Murray, Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography Thomas Manton, Sermons on Psalm 119 (In volumes 6–9 of Manton’s Works)
Charlotte Geddie: A Woman of Eminent Piety
Charlotte Geddie was called to be a wife, mother, and helpmeet to her husband James Geddie in almost unimaginably difficult circumstances in the South Seas. Joan Kingswood began to relate her remarkable testimony in the Summer double issue of the magazine. She writes that Charlotte’s life of loving service proved to be a ‘living introduction to the message of the gospel her husband proclaimed.’ We read the first instalment of her stirring story on this week’s Magazine Monday.
A Taste of The Theology and Theologians of Scotland
The Scottish Church, or Kirk, has been blessed with an abundance of theologically-minded pastors and pastorally-gifted theologians in the centuries since the Reformation. Without a survey of these men and their works, however, it can be difficult to know where to start reading. James Walker’s The Theology and Theologians of Scotland can help in this area. The fruit of his 1870–71 Cunningham Lectures on the subject, this is a book which will help the interested reader prize open the treasure chest of Reformed, evangelical Scottish theology.
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