Bitesize Biography - Augustus Toplady

ISBN: 9780852347935
Author: Douglas Bond

What is one to make of a man described as ‘strangely compounded, peculiarly constituted, and oddly framed’? It  conjures up in the mind an image of Stevenson’s Mr. Hyde, or Shelley’s Frankenstein, or Hugo’s Quasimodo. But such is J. C. Ryle’s (1816-1900) description of Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778), author of what has been called the best-loved English hymn.

What Jesus is doing now

ISBN: 9780852347751
Author: Gary Brady

When it comes to the question of Jesus and what he is doing now, it is obvious that if we are ignorant or unsure about exactly who he is, we will never really understand what he is doing. Before we begin to look at the subject then we need to learn, or at least to brush up on, the matter of just who Christ is.

Hear me carefully

ISBN: 9780852347850
Author: Marlene Williams

In 1940, when Adolf Hitler’s troops invaded the peaceful Channel Island community of Guernsey, the eight-year-old John Blanchard was one of thousands of school children who were hastily evacuated from the island and remained cut off from all contact with their homes and families for the next five years. John was sent to the remote island of Islay, off the west coast of Scotland, where he worked long hours on a farm and walked miles to school.

Running the race - 2nd Ed

ISBN: 9780852347805
Author: John Keddie

NEW EDITION: There are many biographies of sportsmen today. They seem to appear every week as sports’ practitioners achieve celebrity status at an increasingly young age and are grist to the mill of a media-driven lust for the sensational. There are also many Christian biographies. There are very few which bring together the sporting and the Christian.

Bitesize Biography - John Chrysostom

ISBN: 9780852347720
Author: Earl M. Blackburn

It is good that Christ reigns over all, particularly in his church. Otherwise, biblical Christianity would disappear from the earth. Chrysostom is proof positive that the mediatorial Lord of heaven and earth rules and overrules in the affairs of men and that he sometimes takes his servants through dark and soul-jarring providences to cause his Word to triumph at last.

Bitesize Biography - Thomas Cranmer

ISBN: 9780852347737
Author: Colin Hamer

Thomas Cranmer, one of the Reformation's most famous martyrs, can accurately be described as the architect of the Church of England.

Gospel church government

ISBN: 9780946462858
Author: John Owen

John Owen (1616-1683) is widely recognised as one of the greatest of all theologians. In a time when Britain was experiencing religious and political upheaval, he wrote carefully, biblically and extensively on a large number of subjects, including some that were being hotly debated.

Preaching the Psalms

ISBN: 9780852347836
Author: Steve Lawson

How many preachers know how to preach the Psalms? It must be admitted that noticeable differences exist between the Psalms and the narrative sections of the Scripture.