Jonathan Landry Cruse\u2019s The Character of Christ: The Fruit of the Spirit in the Life of our Saviour <\/i><\/a>is a brief but dense volume. The author\u2019s contention is that the life of Christ provides the fullest and sweetest display of the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit. With this in mind, he walks us through the fruit of the Spirit as it comes to expression in the life and labour of the Lord Jesus. Rather than an abstract study of the fruit (worthwhile in itself, at least in measure), the goal is to offer the reader a transforming view of our Saviour, so that\u2014gazing at him\u2014we are changed into his likeness. Readers looking for a book full of Christ, both satisfying and sanctifying, will find it here.<\/span><\/p>\n In his own day, Richard Sibbes had a reputation as a gospel comforter, a man who left a little heavenly honey behind him wherever he went. David B. MacKinnon\u2019s Refreshment for the Soul: A Year of Daily Devotional Readings from the \u2018Heavenly Doctor\u2019 Richard Sibbes<\/a> <\/i>brings Sibbes within our grasp. Culled from Sibbes\u2019 seven-volume Works<\/i> (also available from the Banner of Truth), and largely grouped in accordance with specific books within those works, these page-long excerpts are full of happy and lively truth. Those who have already encountered Dr Sibbes will find here a range of his mellow medicines; those who do not yet know him will find much to strengthen the soul. A year of reviving and restorative reading lies before you!<\/span><\/p>\n Another daily devotional to consider is Robert Macdonald\u2019s From Day to Day: Helpful Words for the Christian Life<\/i><\/a>. Macdonald was a nineteenth-century Scots minister from the circle of M\u2018Cheyne and the Bonars. Because it was written as a series of daily readings, each day\u2019s study has a completeness and coherence of its own. For the same reason, there is a warmth of tone\u2014a kind of gentle familiarity\u2014which characterizes the whole. The consequence is a book that can sometimes feel as if your own pastor has sat down with you for a few minutes to give you the fruits of his meditations, and to succour you spiritually for the day ahead. Full of gentle wisdom, this should be a blessing to many saints.<\/span><\/p>\n Two of the most recent additions to the Puritan Paperbacks series are a double-header from John Owen: Gospel Ministry<\/i><\/a> and Gospel Life<\/i><\/a>. Each is a collection of sermons along similar lines, chosen from volume nine of the Banner of Truth edition of Owen\u2019s Works<\/i>. As so often in the Puritan Paperback series, the language has been modernized for accessibility. Both volumes are very much the productions of Owen the pastor. That is not to say that his theological insight is in any measure diluted, but rather mediated by his affectionate concern to communicate God\u2019s truth to those around him, for their present and lasting blessing. The nine sermons in the collection on Gospel Ministry <\/i>are delightfully double-edged. They were not preached in a gathering of ministers, but to a gathered congregation. They tell God\u2019s people what to desire and to expect from God\u2019s servants, and in so doing they inform God\u2019s servants of what they ought to be, by God\u2019s grace. The thirteen sermons in the Gospel Life<\/i> collection carry us through various aspects of Christian experience. Again, the voice we hear is that of the under-shepherd, comforting and consoling, exhorting and encouraging, seeking to stir the saints to faith and hope and love. Anyone who may have been slightly deterred by Owen the penetrating theologian would do well, in sitting under Owen the affectionate pastor, to learn that they are one and the same, and that his prodigious learning is consecrated to the care of Christ\u2019s flock.<\/span><\/p>\n by<\/span> Robert P. Martin<\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n Dr. Robert P. Martin (1948\u20132016) was formerly Dean and Professor of Biblical Theology at Trinity Ministerial Academy, Montville, New Jersey. He also served as pastor of Emmanuel Reformed Baptist Church, Seattle, Washington for a number of years, and as Professor of Biblical Theology at Reformed Baptist Seminary, Taylors, South Carolina. Dr. Martin authored several books, […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n by<\/span> Jonathan Landry Cruse<\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n Jonathan Landry Cruse studied theology at Westminster Seminary California. He is an author, hymnwriter, and the pastor of Community Presbyterian Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Jonathan is husband to Kerri Ann and a father of three.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n by<\/span> David B. MacKinnon<\/a>, Richard Sibbes<\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n Richard Sibbes was born at Tostock, Suffolk, in 1577 and went to school in Bury St Edmunds. His father, \u2018a good sound-hearted Christian\u2019, at first intended that Richard should follow his own trade as a wheelwright, but the boy\u2019s \u2018strong inclination to his books, and well-profiting therein\u2019 led to his going up to St John\u2019s […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n by<\/span> Robert Macdonald<\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n Robert Macdonald was born in the Scottish city of Perth in 1813 and attended the University of St Andrews, where he was converted. He became a close friend of Robert Murray M\u2018Cheyne and the Bonar brothers, and served as a minister first in the Perthshire village of Logiealmond. He then exercised a near twenty-year ministry […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n by<\/span> John Owen<\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n John Owen was born in 1616 in Stadhampton, Oxfordshire and died in Ealing, West London, in 1683. During his sixty-seven years he lived out a life full of spiritual experience, literary accomplishment, and national influence so beyond most of his peers that he continues to merit the accolade of ‘the greatest British theologian of all […]<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\nBooks Featured<\/h3>\n
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\t <\/a>\n\n\n A Guide to the Puritans<\/a><\/h2>\n\n \n
A Topical and Scriptural Index to the Writings of the Puritans and their Successors<\/h3>\n\n \n
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