The Magazine Podcast

Christian fellowship, contends our editor Mark G. Johnston, is the 'Cinderella' of the means of grace. That is to say, of the various means the Lord uses to build up His people, fellowship is woefully and unjustly neglected. This week on the podcast, we are encouraged to remedy this neglect, and discover afresh that there is no healthy church life–even Christian life–without Christian fellowship. 

 

Featured Resources: 

Mark G. Johnston, 'Fellowship: The Cinderella of the Means of Grace,' Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 737 (February 2025). 

Ian Hamilton, 'The Fellowship of Saints,' Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 633 (June 2016). 

 

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How are we to love and to set apart the Lord's Day? Why are we to love it and set it apart? Maurice Roberts explains, in clear and compelling terms, what relevance the Fourth Commandment has for Christians in the New Covenant. 

 

Featured Resource: 

Maurice Roberts, 'Sabbath Observance,' Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 392 (May 1996). 

 

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Thomas Boston was one of the outstanding Scottish ministers of the eighteenth century. This week we consider his faithfulness in two small parishes in the Scottish Lowlands, and God's sustaining of him in these difficult charges. 

 

Featured Resource: 

G. N. M. Collins, 'How Thomas Boston Beheld the Lamb of God which Taketh Away the Sin of the World,' Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 640 (January 2017)

 

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Our bonus episode this week is a conversation with Dr Robert Strivens, Banner of Truth Trustee and Director of the recently set-up Reformed Baptist Study Centre. We hear more about Robert, the work of the Banner trustees, and the hopes for the new study centre in this interview recorded at the recent Banner Ministers' Conference in Staffordshire. 

 

Robert's recommendations: 

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Puritans: Their Origins and Successors

Iain H. Murray, The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1 volume)

Iain H. Murray, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2 volumes)

John Murray, Redemption Accomplished and Applied

 

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This week's selection is an excursion into Pastor William Shishko's ministerial library, to see which books have fed him as a Christian and as a minister. The result will be of interest not only to other men called to shepherd the Lord's flock, but to every Christian with an appetite to know more of God. 

 

(In Print) Books Mentioned in the Episode: 

John Owen, The Glory of Christ (Volume 1 of The Works of John Owen, comprising Owen's Christologia, Or a Declaration of the Glorious Mystery of the Person of Christ and Discourses and Meditations on the Glory of Christ)

Gardiner Spring, The Attraction of the Cross (Out of print). 

Octavius Winslow, Personal Declension and the Revival of Religion in the Soul

Octavius Winslow, No Condemnation in Christ, as Unfolded in the Eighth Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans

Octavius Winslow, The Work of the Holy Spirit: An Experimental and Practical View

J. C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels

Matthew: https://banneroftruth.org/store/commentaries/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-9/ 

Mark: https://banneroftruth.org/store/commentaries/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-10/ 

Luke (I): https://banneroftruth.org/store/commentaries/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-11/ 

Luke (II): https://banneroftruth.org/store/commentaries/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-12/ 

John (I): https://banneroftruth.org/store/commentaries/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-13/ 

John (II): https://banneroftruth.org/store/commentaries/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-14/ 

John (III): https://banneroftruth.org/store/commentaries/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-15/ 

William Hendriksen's Commentaries: https://banneroftruth.org/about/banner-authors/william-hendriksen/ 

 

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