Tobi Collection

Among the young Christians of Galatia a row is brewing: Should the new Gentile converts be circumcised like their Jewish brothers or does life in J...

When John Calvin first began writing his Institutes of the Christian Religion, he had in mind a short handbook or manual which would set out the es...

The book you hold in your hands is a rare gem. It was written to help Christians come to a clearer understanding of and appreciation for ‘the gospe...

Theodore L. Cuyler was thus divinely fitted for the great task of comforting God’s suffering people. Fourteen years after losing two of his childre...

Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain saw a mega-change in reading habits. For the first time fiction took the primary place in book publishing, and...

Jesus punctuated his public ministry with astounding deeds. He caused the lame to walk, the blind to see and the deaf to hear. He fed multitudes ...

Christianity is going global, yet most pastors are not called to a worldwide itinerant ministry but to a local body of believers. Nevertheless, Reg...

Martin Luther once said that Isaiah 53 ‘ought to be written on parchment of gold and lettered in diamonds.' Isaiah 53 is truly one of the most rema...

What are eternal rewards? What does it mean that teachers will incur a “stricter judgment”? Will all believers be equal in Heaven? How does my pres...

Mark's Gospel has always been a good starting point either for people who are searching for God, or for those who have become Christians and who wa...

The story of the apostle Paul is one of the most fascinating in history. The bitter enemy of Christianity becomes its most powerful and zealous adv...

The dramatic story of James Fraser who spent his whole life bringing the Gospel to the Lisu people.

The book of 1 Chronicles is often neglected, yet it has so much to teach us—even the genealogies! Along with 2 Chronicles, 1 Chronicles surveys Bib...

A friend once said to Archibald Brown that the sermons he found most helpful and enjoyable were simple sermons. ‘What do you mean by a simple sermo...

Many children and young people dream of becoming rich and famous. Most of them will never fulfil that dream. Sometimes we can become so fascinated ...

Many children and young people dream of becoming rich and famous. Most of them will never fulfil that dream. Sometimes we can become so fascinated ...

When Elijah lived in Israel in 900 BC, truth was being compromised and the people had departed from the worship of the one true God. It was a multi...

So, it's youth group planning and it comes to that time of the evening when you discuss crafts; does your brain freeze? Can you only think of the s...

All of us who hear preaching are aware that some of it gets through and that some of it does not. Why is this? What, if anything, can preachers do ...

What was it that transformed the people of England during the latter half of the eighteenth century? J.C. Ryle reveals the answer to that question ...

In addition to Petra, Jordan's deservedly its most famous site, the incomparable desert vistas of Wadi Rum, the sub-tropical valley corridor and Gi...

Many children and young people dream of becoming rich and famous. Most of them will never fulfil that dream. Sometimes we can become so fascinated ...

Ignatius of Antioch – The Man Who Faced Lions is the story of a hero. He was a follower of Jesus Christ. He was prepared to live and die for his Lo...

Many children and young people dream of becoming rich and famous. Most of them will never fulfil that dream. Sometimes we can become so fascinated ...

It is quite remarkable that until now no substantial biography has appeared to recount the life of James Montgomery (1771-1854). His memoirs were p...

The book of Esther is hidden away and not always well known. If you have heard of Esther, perhaps you have thought of her as a beautiful woman livi...

Polycarp of Smyrna: The Man Whose Faith Lasted tells the story of a hero. He was a follower of Jesus Christ. He loved and served his Lord for over ...

Drawn from Baxter’s famous work, The Reformed Pastor, and arranged topically as a month’s supply of brief daily readings, the maxims and meditation...

The Puritan preacher Richard Sibbes (1577-1635) really knew how to awaken and invigorate faith, love and joy in Christ in the hearts of his hearers...

The book of Acts is the history book of the church, describing how Jesus Christ began to build the church that he had promised to build (Matt. 16:1...

Where was he born? We don't know. When was he born? We can't be sure. Who were his parents? We have no idea. Where did he go to school? We are not ...

Egypt, the fabled land of romance, intrigue, mystery, and terror, but above all fabulous wealth and glittering goldEver since Napoleon's invasion i...

In this treatment of the biblically doctrine of repentance the author distinguished between evangelical or true repentance and legal repentance. Th...

John Newton (1725-1807) has rightly been called ‘the letter-writer par excellence of the Evangelical Revival’. Newton himself seems to have come to...