Monthly Archives: May 2023

When flicking through this new(ish) publication I noticed how Jonathan Edwards wrote about his wife and the impact that her spiritual life had on her daily walk...Instead of neglecting the business of life, she performed it with greater alacrity as a part of her service to God, declaring that when it was thus done, it was as delightful as prayer itself. At the same time, she discovered an ext…

According to Josh McDowell, our children are being raised in a society that has largely rejected the concepts of truth and morality. In Right From Wrong, McDowell offers hope and provides families and the church with a biblical and workable method to clearly understand and defend the truth.…

In this volume, Dr Renihan works through the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith chapter by chapter and paragraph by paragraph insisting on hearing it in its historical context. The Exposition seeks to illuminate and explain the theology of the Confession by setting it into its historical and theological context. It examines relevant primary source expositions of Scripture and theological tr…

A comparison between seventeenth century Particular Baptist and Paedobaptist Federalism.This book compares the doctrine of the covenant of grace as formulated in the Westminster Confession of Faith with the Second London Confession of Faith. The thesis is that these two views are the fundamental distinction between the Reformed paedobaptists and the Particular Baptists from which other differe…

Essays in Baptist Covenant Theology. Various contributors including James Renihan, Richard Barcellos, Pascal Denault, Stephen Weaver, Michael Renihan, John Owen, Jeffery Johnson and more.…

George Smeaton (1814-1889) was one of Scotland’s leading theologians. With a flair for languages and a gift for exegesis, he clearly and warmly articulated thoroughly biblical convictions on such major points of theology as the atonement and the person and work of the Holy Spirit.Yet he wrote and taught at a time when Scotland was undergoing huge cultural and theological shifts, and his (somet…

A Practical Treatise on Faith and LoveWritten in 1799, Christ Precious to Those Who Believe: The preciousness of Jesus Christ, to those who believe—practically considered and improved by John Fawcett is a "minor spiritual classic of the eighteenth century that deserves to be better known. In it, Fawcett explores the way that 'love is the parent and promoter of every thing excellent and amiable…

A powerful movement of the Holy Spirit in UK universities/colleges, including Wales, from the 1940s resulted in many students being converted and some called into the Christian ministry.In the context of prayer and dependence on God, this blessing contributed significantly to local church growth as Christ was preached powerfully to congregations as well as in the open-air.The accounts of t…

Young Thomas Bilney entered Trinity Hall Cambridge in 1510. Shy and retiring, and being a loyal son of the church, he simply wanted to serve God. On the eve of the Reformation in England, Bilney played his part, when God spoke to him through the reading of Erasmus’s New Testament. Transformed, he courageously evangelized Cambridge, gathering a group around him, including the mighty Latimer. Consta…

Our society is in pain. Families are breaking down and individuals are suffering. Much of this is caused by the fact that Christian sexual ethics have been jettisoned as archaic and oppressive. While holding to biblical truth, the church needs to be both compassionate and understanding in order to try to direct people aright. To help churches in that, Pastors need to be equipped.This is a compe…