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The Christian's great hope is the personal return—the Second Coming—of the Lord Jesus Christ. In his article 'Eagerly Awaiting the Saviour,' Mike Riccardi helps us grasp the nature of this hope, and work it out in our own lives.
Featured resource:
Mike Riccardi, 'Eagerly Awaiting the Saviour,' Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 629 (February 2016).
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Wednesday May 20, 2026
Wednesday May 20, 2026
Grant Castleberry serves as a Pastor-Teacher at The King's Chapel, Raleigh, North Carolina. Grant recently concluded doctoral research into D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones and in this bonus episode we discuss 'the Doctor' and his ministry emphases, as well as hearing Grant's own fascinating testimony to God's faithfulness and gracious calling.
More on The King's Chapel:
https://www.thekingschapel.com/
Grant's book, The Honor of God:
https://store.ligonier.org/the-honor-of-god-hardcover
Grant's resource website:
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Monday May 18, 2026
Monday May 18, 2026
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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Monday May 11, 2026
Monday May 11, 2026
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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Thursday May 07, 2026
Thursday May 07, 2026
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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Friday May 01, 2026
Friday May 01, 2026
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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Monday Apr 27, 2026
Monday Apr 27, 2026
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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Monday Apr 20, 2026
Monday Apr 20, 2026
The doctrine of the cross of Christ is not merely a constituent part of the Christian system of belief - it is the beating heart of the Christian message, the saving reality which cannot be known or loved by man in a state of sin and rebellion. The cross mocks human wisdom, exposing its strength as weakness. Maurice Roberts helps us see that only divine wisdom, given by the Holy Spirit, enables us to receive the cross of Christ and its implications.
Featured Resource:
Maurice Roberts, 'What Earth's Princes Never Knew,' Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 370 (July 1994).
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