POPULARITY
A new MP3 sermon from Classic Audiobooks is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Keeping the Heart, Part 5 Subtitle: Keeping the Heart Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Classic Audiobooks Event: Audiobook Date: 1/1/1856 Bible: Proverbs 4:23 Length: 31 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Classic Audiobooks is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Keeping the Heart, Part 4 Subtitle: Keeping the Heart Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Classic Audiobooks Event: Audiobook Date: 1/1/1856 Bible: Proverbs 4:23 Length: 60 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Classic Audiobooks is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Keeping the Heart, Part 3 Subtitle: Keeping the Heart Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Classic Audiobooks Event: Audiobook Date: 1/1/1856 Bible: Proverbs 4:23 Length: 56 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Classic Audiobooks is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Keeping the Heart, Part 1 Subtitle: Keeping the Heart Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Classic Audiobooks Event: Audiobook Date: 1/1/1856 Bible: Proverbs 4:23 Length: 20 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Classic Audiobooks is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Keeping the Heart, Part 2 Subtitle: Keeping the Heart Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Classic Audiobooks Event: Audiobook Date: 1/1/1856 Bible: Proverbs 4:23 Length: 53 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Unchangeableness of God, A Refuge & Rest in Times of Trouble Subtitle: Righteous Man's Refuge Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 9/24/2025 Length: 31 min.
In Psalm 31, David prays the following about those who fear the Lord: 'In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men; you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.' In a world in which deception so often seems to prevail, and good reputations are tarnished by falsehoods, we need to realise afresh the power (and danger) of the tongue. We must lay hold of the God who can deliver us both from sinning with our tongues, and from 'the strife of tongues' when they are turned unjustly against us. Featured Resources: – Maurice Roberts, 'The Strife of Tongues', Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 460 (January 2002). – Arnold A. Dallimore, Spurgeon: A Biography (1984, repr. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1985, 2014), p. 69. Further reading: John Flavel, Sinful Speech (Pocket Puritans) N.B. the text of this Pocket Puritan is taken from 'A Caution to Seamen: A Dissuasive against Several Horrid and Detestable Sins' in The Works of John Flavel, Vol. 5 and 'The Reasonableness of Personal Reformation' in The Works of John Flavel, Vol. 6. Explore the work of the Banner of Truth: www.banneroftruth.org Subscribe to the Magazine (print/digital/both): www.banneroftruth.org/magazine Leave us your feedback or a testimony: www.speakpipe.com/magazinepodcast
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Necessity of A Strong Faith For Suffering Subtitle: Preparation For Suffering Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 9/16/2025 Length: 19 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: How the Change in the New Birth Prepares for Suffering Subtitle: Preparation For Suffering Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 9/3/2025 Length: 20 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Christian Fortitude in Order to Suffering Subtitle: Preparation For Suffering Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 8/13/2025 Length: 16 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Getting Clear Evidences of God's Work of Grace in Us Subtitle: Preparation For Suffering Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 8/7/2025 Length: 17 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Improving Our Praying Abilities in Times of Suffering Subtitle: Preparation For Suffering Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 8/3/2025 Length: 9 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Grace Audio Treasures is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: He sees not only God's greatness, but his own vileness Subtitle: Puritan Devotional Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Grace Audio Treasures Event: Devotional Date: 7/20/2025 Bible: Job 42:5-6; Isaiah 6:5 Length: 3 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Depending Constantly and Entirely on the Spirit #13 Subtitle: Preparation For Suffering Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 7/12/2025 Length: 14 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God's Faithfulness A Security in Times of Danger Subtitle: Righteous Man's Refuge Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 7/9/2025 Length: 33 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God Usually Forewarns the World of Impending Judgments Subtitle: Righteous Man's Refuge Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Bible Study Date: 7/8/2025 Length: 14 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Preparation For Sufferings Chapter 1 - I Am Ready Subtitle: Preparation For Suffering Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 6/23/2025 Bible: Acts 21:13 Length: 7 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: To Suffer for Christ - A Real Work Of Conversion Needed - 5 Subtitle: Preparation For Suffering Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Sunday Service Date: 6/23/2025 Length: 16 min.
Join us for another conversation with Garrett Kell, lead pastor of Del Ray Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia, author, husband to his wife, Carrie, and father to their seven children. Helpful resources for grieving: - Facing Grief by John Flavel: https://banneroftruth.org/us/store/christian-living/facing-grief/ - Songs of Suffering by Joni Eareckson Tada: https://us.10ofthose.com/product/9781433576409/songs-of-suffering-hardback - Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy by Mark Vroegop: https://us.10ofthose.com/product/9781433561481/dark-clouds-deep-mercy-paperback - Lord From Sorrows Deep I call: https://youtu.be/nATJFlTjJF0?si=iHhv3Qw0bls5du9_ - I Asked the Lord: https://youtu.be/YFsENAGs3gQ?si=Lnr92LuWWZTFsb1c
A new MP3 sermon from Grace Audio Treasures is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Guard your heart! Subtitle: Puritan Devotional Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Grace Audio Treasures Event: Devotional Date: 5/23/2025 Bible: Proverbs 4:23; Matthew 12:34-35 Length: 3 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God Forewarns His People of Coming Trials or Judgments Subtitle: Preparation For Suffering Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 5/1/2025 Bible: Amos 3:7 Length: 15 min.
Sociologists are telling us that Americans are afraid of more things and they are more afraid of those things than they have been in the past. And this resonates with what we see in our culture so we are not surprised by these findings. In this message, taking a large leaf out of John Flavel's work on fear, we begin to explore how we are to navigate through our fear.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Christ Knocking at the Door of Sinners Hearts - Sermon 1 Subtitle: Christ Knocking at the Door Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 4/10/2025 Bible: Revelation 3:20 Length: 40 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Christ Knocking At The Door of Sinner's Hearts - to the reader Subtitle: Christ Knocking at the Door Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 4/7/2025 Bible: Revelation 3:20 Length: 6 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Letter To Ministers of the Gospel- Christ Knocking at the Door Subtitle: Christ Knocking at the Door Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 4/7/2025 Bible: Revelation 3:20 Length: 27 min.
Dave Kiehn interviews Jeff Strickland about his church planting experience in Indianapolis, pursuing higher education while in ministry, his book on John Flavel, and the joy that comes from assurance in Christ. Jeff is a member of our network, the Lead Pastor of The Fields Church in Indianapolis, IN, and the author of The Foundation of Joy: Assurance in the Theology of John Flavel.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Nature, Principle, and Necessity of Mortification #1 Subtitle: Mortification of Sin Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 3/1/2025 Bible: Galatians 5:24 Length: 40 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Nature, Principle, and Necessity of Mortification #2 Subtitle: Mortification of Sin Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 3/1/2025 Bible: Galatians 5:24 Length: 45 min.
The second instalment of our Puritan mini-series looks at John Flavel, the great evangelist and pastor-theologian of Devon, in England's southwest. A man who knew the Lord's blessing as a disciple, an evangelist, a pastor, and a writer, he also knew great hardship and government-sanctioned opposition. See map of Devon (the county where Flavel ministered). Featured Resources: – 'John Flavel', presumed to be by Iain H. Murray, featured in the Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 60 (September 1968). – 'The Character of a Complete Evangelical Pastor Drawn by Christ', John Flavel, sermon notes featured in the Banner of Truth Magazine, Issue 8 (August 1957). Works by Flavel All Things Made New: Living the Christian Life (Portions selected and edited by Lewis Allen, Puritan Paperbacks, 320 pages) Binge Drinking (Pocket Puritans, 80 pages) Facing Grief: Counsel for Mourners (Puritan Paperbacks, 136 pages) Impure Lust (Pocket Puritans, 80 pages) The Mystery of Providence (Puritan Paperbacks, 224 pages) None But Jesus: Selections from the Writings of John Flavel (Pocket Puritans, 176 pages) Preparations for Sufferings (Puritan Paperbacks, 176 pages) Sinful Speech: Sins of the Tongue (Pocket Puritans, 96 pages) The Works of John Flavel (6 Clothbound volumes, 3667 pages) Second clip from Sinclair Ferguson used with the permission of Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. Original Clip: I've never read any Puritan books, where should I start? Explore the work of the Banner of Truth: www.banneroftruth.org Subscribe to the Magazine (print/digital/both): www.banneroftruth.org/magazine Leave us a voice message: www.speakpipe.com/magazinepodcast
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Various Helps for Discovering Sincerity and Detecting Hypocrisy Subtitle: John Flavel Writings Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 2/11/2025 Length: 10 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Motivations To Prepare For Sufferings - Preparation for Suffering - 15 Subtitle: Preparation For Suffering Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 1/7/2025 Length: 11 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Keeping the Heart (3) In Times of Prosperity and Adversity Subtitle: Keeping the Heart Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 1/2/2025 Bible: Proverbs 4:23 Length: 29 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Keeping The Heart (2) For What Reasons? Subtitle: Keeping the Heart Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 12/31/2024 Bible: Proverbs 4:23 Length: 24 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Keeping The Heart - The Duty Defined - 1 Subtitle: Keeping the Heart Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 12/28/2024 Bible: Proverbs 4:23 Length: 20 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 2 Things Which Consume The Life and Strength of Christians Subtitle: Keeping the Heart Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 12/27/2024 Length: 6 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Many Christians Are Not Prepared to Suffer Subtitle: Preparation For Suffering Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 12/21/2024 Length: 12 min.
The following sermon was chosen as a 'staff-pick' on SermonAudio: Title: The Life of John Flavel Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Classic Audiobooks Event: Audiobook Date: 11/20/2024 Length: 41 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Righteous Man's Refuge - Chapters 1-3 Subtitle: Righteous Man's Refuge Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 11/28/2024 Bible: Isaiah 26:20 Length: 37 min.
QUOTES FOR REFLECTION“I wonder if one of the sins we are entertaining beneath all other sins is discontentment, a lack of gratefulness, a lack of thanksgiving. What if when the serpent came, instead of entertaining him, [Eve] thanked God for what He gave her thus far? ‘I've got God and I'm thankful! I've got all these other trees and I'm thankful!'”~Jackie Hill Perry, writer, poet, and hip-hop artist “The thing at bottom is, that men have low thoughts of God, and high thoughts of themselves; and therefore it is that they look upon God as having so little right, and they so much.”~Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) New England minister and theologian “Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love.”~John Bunyan (1628-1688), writer and preacher “A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason”~G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), author and literary critic “Time and again, studies have shown that performing simple gratitude exercises, like keeping a gratitude diary or writing letters of thanks, can bring a range of benefits.…. [T]he more practice you give your brain at feeling and expressing gratitude, the more it adapts to this mind-set ... a sort of gratitude ‘muscle' that can be exercised and strengthened.” ~Dr. Christian Jarrett, British cognitive neuroscientist “Remember that this God in whose hand are all creatures, is your Father, and is much more tender of you than you are, or can be, of yourself. “Consider solemnly, that though the things you fear should really happen, yet there is more evil in your own fear than in the things feared…. Fear is both a multiplying and a tormenting passion; it represents troubles as much greater than they are, and so tortures the soul much more than the suffering itself.”~John Flavel (1627-1691) in Keeping HeartSERMON PASSAGEselected passages from Proverbs and Romans (ESV)Proverbs 35 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.7 Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.8 It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones. 9 Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce… Romans 1 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
A new MP3 sermon from Classic Audiobooks is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: The Life of John Flavel Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Classic Audiobooks Event: Audiobook Date: 11/20/2024 Length: 41 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Classic Audiobooks is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 08 - Representations Under the Old Testament Subtitle: The Glory of Christ Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Classic Audiobooks Event: Sunday Service Date: 11/14/2024 Length: 12 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Classic Audiobooks is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 07 - Glory of Christ in His Exaltation Subtitle: The Glory of Christ Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Classic Audiobooks Event: Sunday Service Date: 11/13/2024 Length: 15 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Classic Audiobooks is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 06 - The Discharge of His Mediatory Office Subtitle: The Glory of Christ Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Classic Audiobooks Event: Sunday Service Date: 11/12/2024 Length: 11 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Classic Audiobooks is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 05 - The Glory of Christ in HIs Love Subtitle: The Glory of Christ Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Classic Audiobooks Event: Sunday Service Date: 11/11/2024 Length: 14 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Classic Audiobooks is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 04 - His Condescension as Mediator Subtitle: The Glory of Christ Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Classic Audiobooks Event: Sunday Service Date: 11/10/2024 Length: 31 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Classic Audiobooks is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 03 - The Mysterious Constitution of His Person Subtitle: The Glory of Christ Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Classic Audiobooks Event: Sunday Service Date: 11/9/2024 Length: 36 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Classic Audiobooks is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 02 - Christ the Only Representative of God to the Church Subtitle: The Glory of Christ Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Classic Audiobooks Event: Sunday Service Date: 11/8/2024 Length: 47 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Classic Audiobooks is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 01 - The Explanation of the Text Subtitle: The Glory of Christ Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Classic Audiobooks Event: Sunday Service Date: 11/7/2024 Length: 23 min.
A new MP3 sermon from Classic Audiobooks is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 00 - Glory of Christ - Introduction Subtitle: The Glory of Christ Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: Classic Audiobooks Event: Sunday Service Date: 11/6/2024 Length: 38 min.
A new MP3 sermon from The Narrated Puritan is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Hearts deadened to all earthly and temporary pleasures Subtitle: Preparation For Suffering Speaker: John Flavel Broadcaster: The Narrated Puritan Event: Audiobook Date: 10/25/2024 Length: 24 min.