This is a pastoral, thoughtful, encouraging, challenging and, above all, radically God-centred book. 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.

Here is a call to all Christians to live as pilgrims, pressing onwards and upwards to our eternal home.

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Podcasts

• Mark Johnston Discusses This World Is Not My Home with Theology on the Go

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The church is the oldest surviving institution in the history of the world. It has changed lives and shaped nations. It is loved, hated, and ignored in equal measure. But what is it, and what is its purpose in the world? This mini-guide answers those questions and shows why the church matters.

Banner Mini Guides

Banner Mini Guides introduce the the reader to some of the major themes and issues related to the Christian faith. They lay a solid foundation of Bible teaching while encouraging more thorough exploration of the theme with suggestions for further reading. The mini-guides will seamlessly fit into the teaching quarters of the church year with their thirteen-chapter format, making them useful for group as well as for individual study.

Also in this series:
Growing in Grace
The Christian Mind
Salvation
Sanctification
The Bible
Regeneration

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‘Mark Johnston’s Let’s Study Colossians and Philemon is packed tight with informed insight, clear and concise summaries of otherwise complex issues, and relevant and wide-ranging application. Designed to aid Bible Study, this book should prove a first choice resource. All who follow the author’s fast-flowing argument and analysis will find their heads cleared, their affections engaged and their hearts strengthened. I cannot commend it too highly. Essential reading.’– DEREK W. H. THOMAS

Book Description

All too often Christians and churches are shaped by the latest ideas about Christianity instead of the timeless truths of the Bible which form its true foundation. Although what has become known as the ‘Colossian problem’ was tied to a particular place and time, the issues bound up with it have surfaced again and again throughout the ages – thus what was happening in Colossae in 60 A.D. has a lot to say to us in the twenty-first century.

Paul’s little letter to Philemon is intimately connected to Colossians, and is one of those often-overlooked gems of the Bible. The respective messages of these two letters are closely related, and some of what Paul had broadly set out to the Colossians is developed in detail in his letter to Philemon, who was a member of that church.

Let’s Study Colossians and Philemon will help readers to see the horizons of both letters as extending to the church of all ages. Paul shows us that the acid test of the spiritual health of a church is whether or not Christ is at its heart – not just in some vague and general sense, but Christ in all his glory as he is set before us in God’s Word.

Mark Johnston on Let’s Study Colossians and Philemon

Review

• Review by Alan Hill

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‘Toda la serie Vamos a estudiar. . .que se está desarrollando es vital para todo hogar cristiano que sinceramente quiere llegar a conocer la Palabra de Dios’. — COVENANTER WITNESS

Book Description

Se ha descrito el Evangelio según Juan como tan sencillo que un niño puede vadearlo, y tan profundo que un elefante puede nadar en él. Esto demuestra que el mismo Evangelio sirve de punto de partida para los recién convertidos al cristianismo y a la vez es un lugar predilecto para los que conocen bien la Biblia y la aman. Mark Johnston nos guía a través del relato que Juan hace de la vida de Jesucristo, el Hijo de Dios. Demuestra que el Evangelio según Juan se puede considerar el Evangelio contemplativo: una selección de las obras y palabras de Cristo para la meditación profunda. Juan nos toma de la mano y nos lleva a las profundidades y misterios de la persona de Cristo y las maravillas que Él ha hecho, de manera que el lector llegue a una fe viva en Jesús como el Cristo, el Hijo de Dios, y alcance la vida eterna en su Nombre.

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‘The whole unfolding Let’s Study series is a must for every Christian home that is serious about getting to know the Word.’ — COVENANTER WITNESS

Book Description

The letters of 2 Peter and Jude share several common themes and were designed to strengthen the faith of Christians who were being unsettled by false prophets and teachers within the apostolic churches. Both Peter and Jude show that the problem of false doctrine is nothing new among the people of God. By using examples and warnings from the Old Testament Scriptures they encourage their fellow believers to remain faithful to the gospel, to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus, and to live in the light of Christ’s second coming.

Mark Johnston’s contemporary commentary shows that these themes are as relevant to Christians today as they were in the first century.

As with other volumes in this series, the value of the exposition is enhanced by the Group Study Guide which follows.

Mark Johnston on Let’s Study 2 Peter and Jude

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‘The whole unfolding Let’s Study series is a must for every Christian home that is serious about getting to know the Word.’ — COVENANTER WITNESS

Book Description

Mark Johnston guides us through John’s account of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. John takes us by the hand and leads us into the depths and mysteries of Christ’s Person and wonders He has accomplished — so that the reader should come to living faith in Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God, and have eternal life in His Name.

Mark Johnston on Let’s Study John

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