Reading the Bible - Softcover

Thomas, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0851513182 ISBN 13: 9780851513188

Publisher: Banner of Truth, 1981

Synopsis

Let the Word break over your heart and mind again and again as the years go by, and imperceptibly there will come great changes in your attitude and outlook and conduct. You will probably be the last to recognise these. Often you will feel very very small, because increasingly the God of the Bible will become to you wonderfully great.

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About the Author

Rev. Geoffrey Thomas has been the minister of Alfred Place Baptist Church in Aberystwyth, Wales, since 1965. Born in 1938 in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, he became a Christian as a teenager in his home church, the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Hengoed, in 1954. After grammar school, he read Biblical Studies, Greek and Philosophy at Cardiff University (BA, 1959). He found fellowship in the Inter-varsity Fellowship group, and was influenced by the ministry of Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones, and reading books such as J. I. Packer's Fundamentalism and the Word of God, Whitefield s Journals, Lloyd-Jones' Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, and J. C. Ryle's Holiness. At this time he also began to take The Banner of Truth magazine, which he has since served as Associate Editor.
He preached for the first time in 1959 and 'thenceforward Sunday after Sunday'. In 1961 he travelled to the United States to study for three years at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, under men such as Edward J. Young, Ned Stonehouse, John Murray, Cornelius Van Til, Meredith Kline, Norman Shepherd, Jay Adams and Edmund Clowney. Returning to Wales after graduation (M.Div, 1964), he married Iola, 'the girl back home'. Assured during the last months of his course at seminary of the call to preach, he began his first and only pastorate at Alfred Place the following year.
Geoff has systematically preached the Bible to his congregation ever since, and has published the compete text of almost a thousand sermons on the church's website. He has served as the chairman of the Grace Churches of England and Wales, and of the Association of Evangelical Churches of Wales, and is currently Editor of the Trust's website articles. He is the author of scores of articles and several books, including The Holy Spirit, Daniel: Servant of God Under Four Kings, Philip and the Revival in Samaria and Ernest Reisinger: A Biography, as well as the booklet Reading the Bible, some of which have been published by the Trust. He is a frequent speaker at conferences throughout the world, and is a Visiting Professor of Historical Theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 2011 Westminster Seminary awarded him a Doctor of Divinity degree.
Geoff and Iola have two daughters who are married to deacons and a third who is a pastor s wife. They have eight grandsons and one granddaughter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Banner of Truth
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0851513182
• ISBN 13: 9780851513188
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32