Christian Focus

Pastoral Friendship

The Forgotten Piece in a Persevering Ministry

Michael A. G. Haykin,Brian Croft and James B. Carroll

While ministering to others, it’s important for pastors to create space for their own friendships. With biblical and historical examples of friendship between pastors, Haykin, Croft and Carroll explain the practical implications for personally pastoring pastors.

Patrick of Ireland

His Life and Impact

Michael A. G. Haykin

Patrick’s faith and his commitment to the Word of God through hard times is a true example of the way that God calls us to grow and to bless those around us through our suffering. Michael Haykin’s masterful biography of Patrick’s life and faith will show you how you can follow God’s call in your life.

Puritan Piety

Michael A. G. Haykin and Paul M. Smalley

Gamechangers

Key Figures of the Christian Church

Robert Letham

It has been said that ideas change the world. Actually, it is people gripped by the ideas that do the changing, as this series of studies of various Christians who did indeed change their worlds reminds us. An extremely interesting and helpful book.

Glory in the Glen

A History of Evangelical Revivals in Scotland 1880–1940

Tom Lennie

... it is not new techniques or new schemes we need... It is what many nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Scottish Christians, whose experience of true revival is set forth in this well-documented book, knew: the awesome God of holiness himself drawing near to his people and setting mind and heart ablaze with glorious light. Read-and pray!

Risking the Truth

Handling Error in the Church

Martin Downes

"What a novel way to approach this most vital of subjects! Given that theological reflection is human thought about the Scriptural revelation of a tri-personal God, I have always believed that the personal element has a place in all of our theologizing. The subjective should not-indeed cannot-be removed from theology. And here we see the way that some of the most important theological minds of our day personally grapple with how truth is to be defended. This mesh of subjectivity and Christian apologetics-in which objectivity is so vital-makes for both compelling and profoundly instructive reading."

Feminine Threads

Women in the Tapestry of Christian History

Diana Lynn Severance

"with lively prose and scholarly care she has given us an excellent overview of the various ways in which Christian women have sought to live for Christ."

Reformation

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Carl R. Trueman

"A great introduction to the present-day meaning of this world-changing event."

A Christian's Pocket Guide to Baptism

The Water that Unites

Robert Letham

"Rightly Letham seeks to understand the issue of baptism within the canonical framework of Scripture. He is hopeful that this is the way forward beyond the impasse that has stymied the church for centuries regarding this precious ordinance ....if you are searching for a well-argued, and irenic, approach to this subject from the vantage-point of infant baptism, this is the book for you."

Living by Revealed Truth

The Life and Pastoral Theology of Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Tom J. Nettles

... an "all-round" study of Spurgeon that provides us with a fully reliable, substantial examination of an extremely important figure in the life of Victorian Evangelicalism and the world of that era.

The Lord’s Supper as a Means of Grace

More Than a Memory

Richard C. Barcellos

Richard Barcellos is to be commended heartily for detailing the biblical and theological foundations of what our forefathers in the Faith knew well.

Churches, Revolutions And Empires

1789–1914

Ian J. Shaw

"...capably and confidently charts the course of the western church through this era of upheaval and change. Shaw's grasp of primary and secondary sources is impressive, as is his ability to synthesize. This is history on the big scale and an excellent example of such."

Basil of Caesarea

His Life and Impact

Marvin Jones

All of the makings of an important story that Evangelicals need to hear... Dr. Jones has done... Evangelicals a great favor in writing this lucid account.

John Knox

Fearless Faith

Steven J. Lawson

...Lawson has captured the essence and main contours of Knox's vital ministry-no easy task. Read and ponder, and then pray that God would raise up again such thunderers of the Bible as Knox-yes, in Scotland, and to the ends of the earth.

Christian Freedom

Samuel Bolton

This modernization of an important work by the seventeenth-century Puritan Samuel Bolton addresses certain key questions of the Christian life and answers them in the solidly Biblical fashion we have come to expect of a Puritan author. Especially helpful is the way that he outlines the nature of true Christian freedom: what we have been delivered from and how God expects us to use our freedom. And what is most needed at the present day: he shows us that liberty and obedience are not polar opposites but two sides of the Christian coin.

2,000 Years of Christ’s Power Vol. 2

The Middle Ages

Nick Needham

It is a brave historian who tackles the extremely challenging task of writing the 2,000-year history of the Church. Well, Nick Needham has more than risen to the challenge. This eagerly-awaited fourth volume has been well worth the wait and, not to pressure our brother scholar, we now look forward to the concluding volume!

2,000 Years of Christ’s Power Vol. 3

Renaissance and Reformation

Nick Needham

It is a brave historian who tackles the extremely challenging task of writing the 2,000-year history of the Church. Well, Nick Needham has more than risen to the challenge. This eagerly-awaited fourth volume has been well worth the wait and, not to pressure our brother scholar, we now look forward to the concluding volume!

2,000 Years of Christ’s Power Vol. 4

The Age of Religious Conflict

Nick Needham

It is a brave historian who tackles the extremely challenging task of writing the 2,000-year history of the Church. Well, Nick Needham has more than risen to the challenge. This eagerly-awaited fourth volume has been well worth the wait and, not to pressure our brother scholar, we now look forward to the concluding volume!

2,000 Years of Christ’s Power Vol. 1

The Age of the Early Church Fathers

Nick Needham

It is a brave historian who tackles the extremely challenging task of writing the 2,000-year history of the Church. Well, Nick Needham has more than risen to the challenge. This eagerly-awaited fourth volume has been well worth the wait and, not to pressure our brother scholar, we now look forward to the concluding volume!

Knowing And Growing in Assurance of Faith

Joel R. Beeke

Here in this book, with perspicuity and simplicity, and informed by a lifetime of reflection and study of this subject, Dr Beeke lays out the New Testament witness that so thrilled the hearts of the Reformers and our Evangelical forebears. I highly recommend it.

God’s Timeline

The Big Book of Church History

Linda Finlayson

This unique and creative collation of infographic timelines that map out the contours of church history is a welcome tool for both younger and older students of the history of God's people... a tremendous means of understanding the vast work of God in times past and how the Faith has been passed down to us.

Basil of Caesarea

His Life and Impact

Marvin Jones

All of the makings of an important story that Evangelicals need to hear... Dr. Jones has done... Evangelicals a great favor in writing this lucid account.

Light after Darkness

How the Reformers regained, retold and relied on the gospel of grace

Lee Gatiss

This is a fabulous recounting of the lives of five key figures of the European Reformation. It is a recounting that also reveals that if these lives had not been lived, western history and the story of the Church would be completely different. This is usable history at its best.

Columba: the Faith of an Island Soldier

Bruce Ritchie

Living as he did in the twilight of antiquity, the memory of the remarkable Celtic Christian leader Columba has been both obscured by legend and claimed by various communities, which has only further obscured the real man. In this new study, Bruce Ritchie has put all who love the story of the Celtic Church in his debt as he untangles what we can truly know about Columba, his life in Ireland before coming to Iona, the Iona mission, and his thought. A solid historical monograph marked by scholarly heft, Ritchie’s biography is also eminently readable—a rare combination and a delight to recommend.

The Pastor’s Life

Practical Wisdom from the Puritans

Matthew D. Haste and Shane W. Parker

This compendium of Puritan thought about the pastor’s life draws from a rich vein of Christian wisdom, one that is much needed in this day of shallow thinking—even within the church of the Lord Jesus.

Running the Race

Eric Liddell – Olympic Champion and Missionary

John W. Keddie

Like many, I shall never forget the impact of my first viewing of Chariots of Fire,
where a portion of the life–story of the Scottish Christian sportsman Eric Liddell was told. It was deeply inspiring and proved to be the foundation of an ongoing interest in Liddell’s life. So I am thrilled to recommend this fresh biographical study of Liddell by John Keddie: perfect to inspire a new generation, it is powerfully written and beautifully illustrated. A joy to read.

Something Worth Living For

God, the World, Yourself, and the Shorter Catechism

Randall Greenwald

Catechisms are an ancient and time–tested method that Christians have employed to pass on the core of what they believe about God and what He requires believers to do. Through a simple question–and–answer approach, young and old have been taught biblical truth about our great God and His ways. Randall Greenwald’s new discussion of the Westminster Shorter Catechism, one of the most treasured of these catechisms,
is indeed a welcome tool for exploring the riches of this particular catechism and, even better, for growing in the grace of the Lord Jesus.

Into all the World

The Missionary Vision of Luther and Calvin

Lindsay Brown

… considers the way in which Luther and Calvin also sought to bring the truth of Christianity to all spheres of human life, a helpful reminder that Christ lays claim to the totality of life.

God’s Way of Holiness

Growing in Grace by Walking with God

Horatius Bonar

With brevity and modernity of phrase, Bonar sets forth the classical, and truly biblical,
perspective on sanctification. And as such, it is of tremendous value today,
for ours is a day when the pursuit of holiness is not so much disputed as forgotten. So, read and follow in the holy paths laid out here!

The Trial of the 16th Century

Calvin & Servetus

Jonathan Moorhead

… an extremely helpful study of a significant event of the French Reformation and reveals how the history of such difficult and intricate events should be written.

William Wilberforce

His Unpublished Spiritual Journals

William Wilberforce and Michael D. McMullen

William Wilberforce has long been regarded as the classic example of evangelical activism in the long eighteenth century.
His tenacious fight against the barbarous inhumanity of the slave trade and slavery have made him an iconic hero for many in our day. But what is often not remembered is the spiritual matrix out of which Wilberforce drew the resources to wage his indomitable battle for justice and social righteousness. Prof McMullen has put us all in his debt by editing these previously–unpublished diaries of this great human being. They reveal that Wilberforce’s love for the African people was intimately tied to his ardent Christian spirituality.
Wilberforce was a man who lived life coram deo. May the reading of these diaries inspire many in our day to do likewise and attempt great things for God.

Imperfect Reflections

The Art of Christian Journaling

Kirsten Birkett

Birkett not only details why Christians should journal, but peppers her book with illustrations of the craft, helping the novice, as it were, to overcome any hesitations to put pen to paper. The book is ideal also for courses that deal with journaling as a spiritual discipline. I highly recommend it!

Reign

The Church in the Middle Ages

Luke H. Davis

Luke Davis has done an impressive job of telling the history of medieval Christianity for young adults through a skilful use of story and traditional narrative. Highly recommended!

The Reluctant Queen

and Other Reformation Women

Elaine Snuggs

Women have played significant roles in the advance of the Gospel, and this is especially true during the era of the Reformation. I am therefore thrilled with this new book … there is much that women – and men – can learn from them in our equally challenging day.