The Banner Podcast

We're delighted to announce a new series coming to the Banner Podcast and Youtube channel—Westminster Wednesdays—starting, Lord-willing, on Wednesday, 28 October. 

In a Christian world saturated with discipleship resources, the Westminster Shorter Catechism has stood the test of time as an edifying summary of Christian truth, well adapted to use in churches and in the Christian home. 

But how can we deepen our meditation on the truths of the catechism? How can we get ready to teach it to others? 

For the pastor or Christian parent wondering how to unlock this treasury of truth for their congregation or children, or indeed for the Christian wanting to go deeper in the faith, we hope Westminster Wednesdays is a user-friendly way in to catechesis. 

Joining Joshua to make this announcement is a special guest who has recently joined the work of the Banner of Truth Trust. 

 

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Jehovah's Witnesses claim to be Christians, but there are irreconcilable differences between the teachings of the Watchtower and the teachings of the Bible. We focus on three of these key differences for this week's Magazine Monday episode, as we read a letter from a former Jehovah's Witness who came to a real faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. 

 

'Footnote': 

As mentioned in the audio, here are further texts to prove that faith in Jesus Christ is the sole factor in salvation: 

John 1:12; 3:14–18; 5:24; 6:35–40; 7:39; 9:35; 11:26; 12:44–46; 14:1; Acts 10:43; 13:39; 15:11; 20:21; Romans 3:26; 4:5; 9:33; 10:4. 

 

Featured Resource: 

J. B. Archer, 'The Differences Between Jehovah's Witnesses and Orthodox Christians,' Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 98 (November 1971). 

 

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It's often helpful to know something of the backstory of a book. In this Friday Extra, Banner trustee Dr Donald John MacLean helps us get to grips with a church controversy that broke out in and around London in the 1690s. 

One of the happy results of that unhappy conflict was a short book on salvation written by the Scottish Divine and survivor of the Bass Rock, Robert Traill (1642–1716). His little book Justification Vindicated teaches, against legalism and antinomianism, what he terms 'the good old way' of the Protestant doctrine of justification. 

 

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We continue the remarkable story of Charlotte Geddie, whose witness to the gospel consisted in her brave, self-denying ministry as a wife, mother, and helpmeet to her missionary husband John. 

This week we pick up the story as the Geddies, recently bereft of two of their children, continue making plans to minister in the New Hebrides. 

 

Featured resource: 

Joan Kingswood, 'From Island to Island: The Witness of Charlotte Geddie (2)' Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 757 (October 2026). 

 

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David Bissett has served Clifton Park Community Church in upstate New York since 1995. We sat down with him at the East Coast Minister's Conference, where he was kind enough to commend three of his favourite Banner books. 

 

Books mentioned: 

Iain H. Murray, Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography

Thomas Manton, Sermons on Psalm 119 (In volumes 6–9 of Manton's Works)

Iain H. Murray, Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism 1750–1858

 

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