Christian Focus

The Westminster Directory of Public Worship

Sinclair B. Ferguson and Mark Dever

The Directory of Public Worship is discussed by Sinclair Ferguson and Mark Dever. They write with clarity making it palatable even to modern readers beset by busyness.

Multiplying Churches

Exploring God’s Mission Strategy

Steve Timmis

From the heights of biblical theology, to the plains of who does what, these brief chapters are again and again both practical and wise. I happily commend this book.

The Wages of Spin

Critical Writings on Historical and Contemporary Evangelicalism

Carl R. Trueman

"Volumes of collected essays depend not on the topic so much as the author to draw our interest. I cannot think of a young evangelical writer and theologian whose works I more eagerly read than Carl Trueman."

Minority Report

Unpopular Thoughts on Everything from Ancient Christianity to Zen Calvinism

Carl R. Trueman

"I cannot think of a young evangelical writer and theologian whose works I more eagerly read."

Is There Anybody Out There? - Second Edition

A Journey from Despair to Hope

Mez McConnell

This is a compelling, gripping, heart-wrenching, you-can't-put-it-down story of sin and grace. Read this and thank God that, as Psalm 136 says, 'His love endures forever.'

Introducing Ephesians

Simon Austen

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Introducing Numbers

A Book for Today

Adrian Reynolds

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Introducing 2 Timothy

A Book for Today

Jonathan Griffiths

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Introducing Acts

David Cook

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Introducing 1 Timothy

Angus MacLeay

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Introducing 1 & 2 Thessalonians

A Book for Today

Angus MacLeay

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Plight of Man And the Power of God

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"What we have in these five expositions is the Gospel explained with great clarity and hope. Even today I used these timeless chapters with a non-Christian friend who is seeking to understand Christianity. I commend these messages to you."

The Pleasures of God

Meditations on God's Delight in being God

John Piper

Of all of Pastor John's books, this is the most radical. Get this vision of God, and begin to see.

Read Mark Learn: John

A Small Group Bible Study

St. Helen"s

"This series of books is superb for personal study, and for helping those who teach the Bible to others. I've been getting a lot to give away to others now. The level is accessible, the reasoning clear, the application careful. Faithful and concise, never missing the big picture. Excellent."

Read Mark Learn: Romans

A Small Group Bible Study

St. Helen’s Bishopsgate

"This series of books is superb for personal study, and for helping those who teach the Bible to others. I've been getting a lot to give away to others now. The level is accessible, the reasoning clear, the application careful. Faithful and concise, never missing the big picture. Excellent."

Teaching Acts

Unlocking the book of Acts for the Bible Teacher

David Cook

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Teaching Amos

From text to message

Bob Fyall

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Teaching Isaiah

Unlocking Isaiah for the Bible Teacher

David Jackman

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Teaching Matthew

Unlocking the Gospel of Matthew for the Bible Teacher

David Jackman

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Teaching Numbers

From Text to Message

Adrian Reynolds

"The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better."

Teaching 1 Peter

Unlocking the book of 1 Peter for the Bible Teacher

Angus MacLeay

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Teaching Romans

Volume 1: Unlocking Romans 1-8 for the Bible Teacher

Christopher Ash

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Teaching Romans

Volume 2: Unlocking Romans 9-16 for the Bible Teacher

Christopher Ash

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Teaching 1 Timothy

From text to message

Angus MacLeay

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Teaching the Christian Hope

Unlocking Biblical Eschatology for the Bible Teacher

David Jackman

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

The Greatest Fight in the World

The Final Manifesto

C. H. Spurgeon

The clarity and power of the themes... were timely then, and they seem just as timely today.

Teaching Ephesians

From text to message

Simon Austen

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Salvation by Crucifixion

Philip G. Ryken

Artful, but simple; compact, but loaded; sound, but fresh. This book is a jewel. Some passages sing. It well repays the time it takes to read it.

Big God

How to approach SUFFERING, spread the GOSPEL, make DECISIONS and PRAY in the light of a God who really is in the DRIVING SEAT of the world

Orlando Saer

If God has seemed absent, He might start appearing for you in surprising places if you take on board Saer's words here. Accurate, biblical, clear, short, serious and practical... thinking meets life.

Introducing Romans

A Book for Today

Christopher Ash

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Teaching 1 & 2 Thessalonians

From Text to Message

Angus MacLeay

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Teaching 2 Timothy

From Text to Message

Jonathan Griffiths

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Psalms by the Day

A New Devotional Translation

Alec Motyer

... expository without being dry, devotional without being forced. As we get to look over his shoulder, we learn to read the Psalms better for ourselves ... delicious combination-richly full, concisely put.

Teaching Daniel

From Text to Message

Robin Sydserff and Bob Fyall

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Teaching 1, 2, 3 John

From text to message

Mervyn Eloff

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Teaching Psalms Vol. 1

From Text to Message

Christopher Ash

The Teaching series is a great resource for Bible study leaders and pastors, indeed for any Christian who wants to understand their Bible better.

Read Mark Learn: Luke Vol. 1

A Small Group Bible Study

William Taylor

This series of books is superb for personal study, and for helping those who teach the Bible to others. I've been getting a lot to give away to others now. The level is accessible, the reasoning clear, the application careful. Faithful and concise, never missing the big picture. Excellent.

3D Leadership

Defining, Developing and Deploying Christian Leaders Who Can Change the World

Harry L. Reeder III

Reeder is disturbed that churches have entrusted the world with defining what it means to be a leader. He tries to take that job back—and with it, he gives us help in knowing how we can develop and deploy those leaders in the church and beyond.

Training – How Do I Grow as A Christian?

Isaac Adams

Pastor Isaac Adams has written a book about important matters. What’s more, it’s a book that is true, good, simple and clear, filled with very practical advice for the new Christian. Some of this teaching is too rare today. And it is accompanied by a story with some surprising depth. All in all, a tool worth knowing about and using.

Beacon–Light

The Life of William Borden (1887–1913)

Kevin Belmonte

… having been given the gift of this book, I am freshly reminded of the gift Borden was to so many, including many like me, who read about him decades after his death. His story ranks with those of George Liele, Adoniram Judson, Lottie Moon, John Paton, Jim Elliot and others who’ve left home to make Christ known to all. 

Health, Wealth, and the (Real) Gospel

The Prosperity Gospel Meets the Truths of Scripture

Sean DeMars and Mike McKinley

… insightful and humorous, wise and winsome, direct yet careful. I pray that God will cause your soul to prosper as you read this book.

The Good Portion – the Church

Delighting in the Doctrine of the Church

Erin Wheeler

… faithful and fun,
biblically informed and rich in simple, direct illustrations.

Foreword to C.H. Spurgeon’s ‘Only a Prayer Meeting’

20 April 2022

One of my most enjoyable reading experiences was earlier this year when I first read Mr Spurgeon’s book Only a Prayer Meeting! I had bought my copy of the 1976 Pilgrim Publications reprint in 1984 in Inverness, Scotland. But it had lain unread among scores of other volumes of Spurgeon’s works, which, for some reason, got more of my attention.