What They’re Saying About Banner Books (2013 No. 3)
‘an excellent book, a brilliant series of studies . . . A great church history book but one that sets its sights radically on today’s church.’ – Melanie Carroll is one of the first to review Garry Williams’ Silent Witnesses.
In the Notes below are links to selected online reviews of Banner titles, posted June-September 2013. The views expressed are of course those of the respective bloggers/reviewers. For each title mentioned, a link is also provided to the appropriate page of the Trust’s online Bookstore, where orders can be placed.
Notes
Melanie Carroll (Lincoln, England) at the Good Book Stall website particularly liked the chapter on Puritan Psychology in Silent Witnesses.
Also from the Good Book Stall . . .
Alan Hill (Montreux, Switzerland) found Sermons of the Great Ejection to be ‘a spiritual feast’ – here.
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‘an excellent book, a brilliant series of studies . . . A great church history book but one that sets its sights radically on today’s church.’ – Melanie Carroll is one of the first to review Garry Williams’ Silent Witnesses. In the Notes below are links to selected online reviews of Banner titles, posted June-September […]
Iain Murray’s new one-volume biography of ‘the Doctor’ – The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones 1899-1981 has been appreciated by Mostyn Roberts (Welwyn, Hertfordshire) on his Harp from the Willows blog, and Guy Davies, the ‘Exiled Preacher’.
The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones
1899-1981
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‘an excellent book, a brilliant series of studies . . . A great church history book but one that sets its sights radically on today’s church.’ – Melanie Carroll is one of the first to review Garry Williams’ Silent Witnesses. In the Notes below are links to selected online reviews of Banner titles, posted June-September […]
Ralph Venning in the new Pocket Puritan The Way to True Happiness ‘nails it’ for Terry Delaney on his Christian Book Notes blog.
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‘an excellent book, a brilliant series of studies . . . A great church history book but one that sets its sights radically on today’s church.’ – Melanie Carroll is one of the first to review Garry Williams’ Silent Witnesses. In the Notes below are links to selected online reviews of Banner titles, posted June-September […]
Three reviews by Bob Thomas (Mitcham, Victoria), editor of New Life, Australia’s online Christian newspaper . . .
September 1, 2013, page 2: Ian Hamilton’s The Faith-shaped Life is ’eminently readable’ and thoroughly practical’.
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‘an excellent book, a brilliant series of studies . . . A great church history book but one that sets its sights radically on today’s church.’ – Melanie Carroll is one of the first to review Garry Williams’ Silent Witnesses. In the Notes below are links to selected online reviews of Banner titles, posted June-September […]
August 1, 2013, page 17: The latest in the ‘Let’s Study’ series of commentaries, Let’s Study Colossians and Philemon by Mark Johnston is ‘particularly valuable’.
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‘an excellent book, a brilliant series of studies . . . A great church history book but one that sets its sights radically on today’s church.’ – Melanie Carroll is one of the first to review Garry Williams’ Silent Witnesses. In the Notes below are links to selected online reviews of Banner titles, posted June-September […]
June 1, 2013, page 16: The Ministry by Charles Brown is ‘an invaluable handbook’.
The Ministry
Addresses to Students of Divinity
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‘an excellent book, a brilliant series of studies . . . A great church history book but one that sets its sights radically on today’s church.’ – Melanie Carroll is one of the first to review Garry Williams’ Silent Witnesses. In the Notes below are links to selected online reviews of Banner titles, posted June-September […]
Arthur J. Fox (Middletown, Pennsylvania), at the website of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, finds David Calhoun’s Our Southern Zion ‘a delightful and important book’.
Our Southern Zion
Old Columbia Seminary (1828-1927)
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‘an excellent book, a brilliant series of studies . . . A great church history book but one that sets its sights radically on today’s church.’ – Melanie Carroll is one of the first to review Garry Williams’ Silent Witnesses. In the Notes below are links to selected online reviews of Banner titles, posted June-September […]
T. C. Robinson (St Louis, Missouri) on his New Leaven blog, found Calvin’s Sermons on the Beatitudes ‘not only richly biblical but timeless indeed’.
Sermons on the Beatitudes
Five sermons from the 'Gospel Harmony', delivered in Geneva in 1560
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‘an excellent book, a brilliant series of studies . . . A great church history book but one that sets its sights radically on today’s church.’ – Melanie Carroll is one of the first to review Garry Williams’ Silent Witnesses. In the Notes below are links to selected online reviews of Banner titles, posted June-September […]
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