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Yet it is also one of the least understood parts of the teaching of Jesus Christ. ‘It is not a sermon about an ideal life in an ideal world,’ writes Sinclair Ferguson, ‘but about the kingdom life in a fallen world.’ It answers some of the most pressing questions every Christian encounters:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat is a Christian? Does the law of God still have a place in the Christian life? How can I learn to pray? How can I learn self-discipline? Why am I a prisoner of anxiety?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinclair Ferguson’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sermon on the Mount\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003edeals with these issues in a crisp, concise, and readable way. 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The title of the selection is taken from one of the sermons, and the themes covered in this volume will be found to equip readers, as they did their first hearers, to run the Christian race with endurance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThemes such as regeneration, saving faith, righteousness, the character and privileges of the true Christian, the character of Jesus Christ, and heaven, among others, all serve to draw out the doctrinal teachings of the Scriptures, whilst applying those teachings to the practical realities of the Christian life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders familiar with Ryle’s other works, including his\u003cspan\u003e \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Expository Thoughts on the Gospels, 7 Volume set\" href=\"https:\/\/cvbbs.com\/products\/expository-thoughts-on-the-gospels-ryle-j-c?_pos=2\u0026amp;_psq=expository+thoughts\u0026amp;_ss=e\u0026amp;_v=1.0\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eExpository Thoughts on the Gospels\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Holiness  J. 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As such he played a prominent part in the Westminster Assembly of divines, but died prematurely before the Assembly’s work was concluded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBurrough’s writings, some published before and others after his death, were numerous, but\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis one of the most valuable of them all. Its author was much concerned to promote (1) peace among believers of various ‘persuasions’ (2) peace and contentment in the hearts of individual believers during what he describes as ‘sad and sinking times’.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Rare Jewel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econcentrates upon this second aim. 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It is, without question, one of the truly great Christian books. Originally published in 1674 as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePneumatologia, or A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit\u003c\/em\u003e, it is a massive work, taking up 650 pages in the Banner of Truth edition of Owen’s Works (volume 3).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt deals with the name, nature, personality, and operations of the Spirit, and urges the necessity of gospel holiness as distinct from mere human morality. The work is both doctrinal and pastoral in character. The very length and exhaustiveness of the original book could easily deter us from attempting to read it, but this abridged and modernized version, like the other Owen volumes in the Puritan Paperback series, will make Owen’s teaching more accessible to modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e248 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2022\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e9781800402126\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"The Holy Spirit  John Owen\" href=\"https:\/\/banneroftruth.cld.bz\/The-Holy-Spirit-Puritan-Paperback\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/8660\/2586\/files\/Read_a_sample_2_30a8ebc8-3394-4ac4-987e-0439bd4590da.png?v=1765049336\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Banner of Truth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42381903298650,"sku":"9781800402126","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/8660\/2586\/files\/HolySpirit_COVER-416x624.jpg?v=1759711951"},{"product_id":"how-do-you-read-the-bible","title":"How Do You Read the Bible?","description":"\u003cp\u003eAccording to J. C. Ryle, next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible reading. God in his mercy has given us a book ‘which is able to make us wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus’ (2 Tim. 3:15). By reading the Bible we may learn what to believe, what to be, and what to do; how to live with comfort, and how to die in peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCan anything, therefore, be more important than being in possession of a Bible? However, to have a Bible is one thing, to read it is quite another. 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The thirty brief but compelling chapters remind us that this world is not our home, that our destiny is ‘a city that has foundations whose designer and builder is God,’ and that we are called to live world-engaging, Christ-glorifying lives. It also highlights a most important aspect of the gospel’s message – the cosmic nature of Christ’s redemption, from its beginning in the wake of Adam’s tragic fall in humanity’s first home, the garden of Eden, to its consummation in the new heavens and new earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere is a call to all Christians to live as pilgrims, pressing onwards and upwards to our eternal home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e192 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2021\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9781800401518\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"This World Is Not My Home  Mark G. 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Some will find its pages deeply soul-searching; others will be struck with the clarity of Owen’s insight; all will find a work which wounds in order to heal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew subjects have received less attention from contemporary Christian writers than that of apostasy. The idea that professing Christians may prove not to be true Christians is, in many respects, too serious a prospect for our facile age. But, for Owen, such avoidance of the issue was itself a pressing reason for writing on it at length and in great depth of spiritual analysis. 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He never lost sight of the fact that the best Christian counselling is done by the Holy Spirit through the patient and lively exposition of God’s word. Sibbes excelled as a comforter of the troubled and doubting. But he also possessed a rare gift of illuminating every passage of Scripture he handled by drawing out its significance for his hearers and readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese features of Sibbes’s ministry figure prominently in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Glorious Feast of the Gospel\u003c\/em\u003e. Sibbes takes for his text Isaiah 26:6-9 in order to display ‘Christ’s gracious invitation and royal entertainment of believers.’ The subject-matter is a perfect blend of rich doctrine and practical application. 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For first-century Christians suffering for Christ was an inevitable accompaniment to a life of serious discipleship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn many parts of the world little has changed since those early days. But in the West, Christians have long enjoyed a period of unusual rest from such troubles. However, there are ominous signs that change is on the way. Suffering ‘for righteousness’ sake’ may once again mark the lives of faithful Christians in the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this exposition of Paul’s words, ‘For I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus’ (Acts 21:13), John Flavel shows us how vital and excellent a thing it is to prepare ourselves for the onset of sufferings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘The cup of sufferings is a very bitter cup, and it is but needful that we provide somewhat to sweeten it…’ — JOHN FLAVEL\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e176 pages\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2021\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan\u003e9781800400672\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/banneroftruth.cld.bz\/Preparations-for-Sufferings\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Preparations for Sufferings  John Flavel\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/8660\/2586\/files\/Read_a_sample_2_7c450082-76bc-4cd8-9c60-713121414a20.png?v=1764957419\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Banner of Truth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42381903495258,"sku":"9781800400672","price":7.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/8660\/2586\/files\/preparations-for-suffering-border-2-520x781.jpg?v=1759711957"},{"product_id":"a-sheep-remembers","title":"A Sheep Remembers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Twenty-third Psalm is probably the best known of all the chapters of the Bible and among the most memorable words ever written in any language. It is so familiar that it would be easy to think that we can learn nothing more from it. But through exposition intermingled with prayers and personal testimony, David Calhoun reminds us that this psalm has great depth, and that lifelong meditation on its words will help Christians to understand just what it is to be a sheep under the care of the ‘good Shepherd.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach of the ten chapters in \u003cem\u003eA Sheep Remembers\u003c\/em\u003e contains a version of the Twenty-third Psalm or a hymn that is based on the psalm, followed by commentary on the verse that is being considered; writings from shepherds that help us to understand sheep and their ways; prayers, quotations and stories that illustrate the theme; and in the last place, the author’s own personal testimony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a striking and profound little volume that will give much spiritual help to readers at all stages in the Christian life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e200 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2021\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9781800400795\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/banneroftruth.cld.bz\/A-Sheep-Remembers\" title=\"A Sheep Remembers  David Calhoun\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/8660\/2586\/files\/Read_a_sample_2_23846a3d-d859-4e82-ae9d-e5e2ad282c2c.png?v=1770738368\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Banner of Truth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42381903560794,"sku":"9781800400795","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/8660\/2586\/files\/asheepremembers-cover-678x1024.jpg?v=1759711959"},{"product_id":"shadow-of-the-cross","title":"The Shadow Of The Cross:  Studies in Self-Denial","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe message of the Cross is the heart of the Christian gospel. The records of the life of Jesus devote more attention to it than any other part of his ministry. The rest of the New Testament constantly underlines its centrality for Christian faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut Jesus and the apostles spoke of ‘the cross’ as a principle of Christian experience as well as the chief symbol of God’s love. Belonging to Jesus Christ (he said) meant taking up the cross personally and living for him rather than for ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Shadow of the Cross\u003c\/em\u003e, Walter J. Chantry restores this often neglected teaching to its central place. Writing with the stirring and probing sharp-edged style which is the hallmark of all his books, he expounds in brief compass the practical necessity of bearing the cross and the joy of living under its shadow. 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Owen himself tells us that the substance of the work began in his own private meditation and study and only later was shared with his congregation. Here, then, is a master theologian writing about the things, or better, the person, nearest to his heart. The work itself was composed almost at the end of Owen’s life and first published in 1684, the year after his death. Indeed, the material in chapters fifteen to seventeen of this abridgement appeared for the first time in the second edition of 1696, having been found among Owen’s papers only after his death but clearly intended as the closing section of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the day of Owen’s death (24 August 1683) William Payne, a minister in Saffron Walden who had accepted responsibility for seeing the manuscript of this work through to publication, visited him in Ealing (now part of London) to share the good news that \u003ci\u003eMeditations on the Glory of Christ\u003c\/i\u003e was now going through the press. 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It involves self-denial, daily cross-bearing, and lifelong obedience. Salvation is promised to the one who ‘endures to the end.’ Christians need much encouragement, especially in ‘difficult times’. This the Lord supplies through pastors who love him and care for his people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Owen was such a pastor. 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The author, a pastor of many years, explains, illustrates and applies these doctrines with fresh insights into the daily experiences and struggles of the Christian. He shows how they are a great encouragement to God’s beloved people especially when living in sad and difficult times in which sin and evil abound. While it is true that God’s children must go through many trials and discouragements in this world, it is also true their ‘light affliction is but for a moment.’ All true believers have left behind the state of sin and death; what they now look forward to is the blessed change — the great transformation — from grace to glory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the author’s wish and prayer that readers of this book will be refreshed in their souls, encouraged in their faith, and reinvigorated in their service as they lift up their eyes to future comforts and joys in eternity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e160 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2019\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9781848719149\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/banneroftruth.cld.bz\/The-Great-Transformation\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Great Transformation  Maurice Roberts\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/8660\/2586\/files\/Read_a_sample_2_c5fc8d3a-4b47-4592-9c1e-6eeb8b8c58db.png?v=1766426485\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Banner of Truth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42381907001434,"sku":"9781848719149","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/8660\/2586\/files\/41XpMqGCwEL._SX331_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1759712048"}],"url":"https:\/\/cvbbs.com\/collections\/christian-life.oembed?page=32","provider":"CVBBS.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}