Publisher's Description

Christ Is All highlights the life and work of the memorable Scottish minister and poet, Horatius Bonar (1808–1889). Michael A. G. Haykin and Darrin R. Brooker present 65 excerpts from Bonar’s writings that capture his ardent devotion to the glory of Christ. Readers will also find Haykin’s biographical introduction on Bonar a valuable glimpse at a life that God used greatly in the preaching of the gospel and the saving of souls.

Table of Contents:

1. No ordinary work
2. God’s trees grow slowly
3. Biblical religion: a via media
4. The apostolic way of evangelism
5. Health of the soul
6. On reading
7. On prayer
8. Blameless Christians
9. A strong and bold witness
10. Our eternal heritage
11. The true end of the ministry
12. The true stimulus to missions
13. The shed blood of Christ: The foundation of Christianity
14. Redeem the time
15. Dwell not in this world
16. Studying the Bible
17. Grace found in God’s election
18. The model of a holy life
19. Honoring the Spirit
20. The gospel
21. God changes not
22. Do you go to the prayer-meeting?
23. Be reconciled to God
24. Quit you like men!
25. The power of the cross
26. The truth and errors of the age
27. Christ our substitute
28. On doctrine
29. The delusion of earthly progress
30. The good news about Jesus Christ
31. Stand fast
32. True spiritual discernment
33. Amid the dazzling confusion
34. Divine jealousy for the truth
35. Follow the Master
36. The deceitfulness of sin
37. God’s glory our aim
38. Shall the god of this world succeed?
39. Be ready
40. On truth
41. Christianity: doctrine and life
42. By faith
43. On the Holy Spirit
44. Taken away from the evil to come
45. The family badge
46. The voice from Galilee
47. Eternal companionship
48. A life of spiritual vitality
49. A warning against imitation
50. The one true resting-place
51. The love of the Spirit
52. The Lord’s Supper
53. On beloved France and the writing of memoirs
54. Awakening in Kilsyth
55. Imputed righteousness
56. The cross
57. Living sacrifices
58. The substitute
59. Believe and live
60. Live for something
61. A faithful proclamation
62. Contemplative theology
63. Gospel optimism
64. Labour for Christ
65. An old minister’s complaints

Reading Bonar

Series Description 

Seeking, then, both to honor the past and yet not idolize it, we are issuing these books in the series Profiles in Reformed Spirituality. The design is to introduce the spirituality and piety of the Reformed Profiles in Reformed Spirituality tradition by presenting descriptions of the lives of notable Christians with select passages from their works. This combination of biographical sketches and collected portions from primary sources gives a taste of the subjects’ contributions to our spiritual heritage and some direction as to how the reader can find further edification through their works. It is the hope of the publishers that this series will provide riches for those areas where we are poor and light of day where we are stumbling in the deepening twilight.

About the Authors 

Darrin R. Brooker is the editor and publisher of The Life and Works of Horatius Bonar CD. He and his wife Melissa are members of Trinity Baptist Church, Burlington, Ontario.

Michael Haykin is professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, and Research Professor of Irish Baptist College, Constituent College of Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland.

Endorsements  

"Bonar's biography provides an enlightening vista of another age, while his selections give us penetrating insight into our won. As Bonar would wish, every word points us to the Christ of all ages and for all ages" - David P. Murray 

“This book of excerpts from the eminent Horatius Bonar is a window on the real Christ life. Living as Bonar did when Liberalism was seeking to replace Reformation theology with disguise Humanism, Bonar sounds his clarion calls: Be at your Bible; be earnest in prayer; be holy and zealous for God; preach the truth; live for eternity; shun worldliness; care to be remembered only by what you have done for Christ in this world. No message is more needed than this today.” – Maurice Roberts