The Gospel Trumpet

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The Gospel Trumpet Gospel Trumpet is a non-profit organization that promotes biblical, Reformed Christianity through two ministries: radio broadcasts and sermon distribution.

The ministries are an outreach of the Heritage Reformed denomination of North America. The sermon distribution ministry consists of contemporary, Bible-based sermons by ministers of conservative Reformed denominations. Most of the writers are from the Heritage Reformed denomination. The sermons aim to address relevant topics in our day. Their goal is to glorify God, nurture and strengthen believers, and convict and win unbelievers to the cause of Christ. Three sermons are contained in each booklet sent out. They are printed as often as funds permit and then sent to thousands who have requested them. The radio preacher is Dr. Joel R. Beeke, president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and pastor of the Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dr. Beeke is a worldwide conference speaker and prolific author. Presently, Dr. Beeke's sermons are aired each Sunday evening in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Producing the sermon booklets and purchasing air-time for the radio ministry requires significant funds. By the grace of our LORD, we have some generous donors who support these ministries. If, however, you've been blessed by these ministries and feel that these ministries could be a blessing to others, please consider donating. We are a non-profit organization listed with the IRS and can therefore issue donation receipts to US taxpayers. Please visit our website to find links and information on how you can donate to the Gospel Trumpet.

10/13/2026

“Who makes the lease? the tenant or the landlord? Or dost thou forget thou farmest thy life, and art not an owner? This is the device of Satan to make you delay; whereas a present expectation of the evil day would not let you sit still unprepared. Oh, why do you let your souls from their work, make them idle and rest from their burdens, by telling them of long life, while death chops in upon you unawares?”
William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armor, 179.

10/12/2026

“And his sermons, wherein nothing could be more remote from ramble, he constantly delivered from his memory. And hath sometime told me, with an amicable freedom, that he partly did it to teach some that were younger, to preach without notes. His learning, and acquired knowledge of things, usually reckoned to be within that compass, was a vast treasure. He had lived a long, studious life; an earnest gatherer, and (as the phrase is) a devourer of books. With which he had so great an acquaintance, and they that were acquainted with him so well knew it, that one, who was for the dignity of his station, and the eminency of his endowments, as great a pillar and as excellent an ornament of the church, as ally it hath had for many an age, hath been known to say, that were he to collect a library, he would as soon consult Doctor Bates, as any man he knew. He was, indeed, himself a living one.”
John Howe, The Works of the Rev. John Howe, 984.

10/11/2026

“[Read] commentaries of orthodox writers, all which will help thee in understanding the text, they will more confirm thy judgement, seeing others to agree in that which thou has conceived thyself; they, by occasion of words, may put into thy mind what, of thyself, thou canst not dream of…by these thou mayest as it were talk with and ask the judgement of the greatest Divines of the world, of any Scripture they write of; they yet living and speaking to us by their labors: as Calvin, Peter Martyr, Musculus, and others.”
Richard Bernard, The Faithful Shepherd, 40.

10/10/2026

“To cure this evil frame [excessive mirth and spiritually unprofitable behavior at funerals], we have thought good to propound [propose] that which we find to be the wish of the generality of pious persons, viz. that books of this nature may be given at burials, instead of rings, gloves, biscuits, w**e, etc. (either to persons invited, or to such godly poor people, as may be thought most convenient, who are not able to buy them) as their last legacy; and the relations of the deceased may have a small abridgment of his or her life and character printed in two or three leaves, to bind up with the books; for a small charge, and what number they think most convenient to dispose of for the benefit of the living being their last act of charity to the poor.”
Edward Pearse, The Great Concern, 7.

10/09/2026

"Every congregation cannot hear the most judicious or powerful preachers; but every single person may read the books of the most powerful and judicious. Preachers may be silenced or banished, when books may be at hand: books may be kept at a smaller charge than preachers: we may choose books which treat of that very subject which we desire to hear of; but we cannot choose what subject the preacher shall treat of. Books we may have at hand every day and hour; when we can have sermons but seldom, and at set times. If sermons be forgotten, they are gone. But a book we may read over and over until we remember it; and, if we forget it, may again peruse it at our pleasure, or at our leisure. So that good books are a very great mercy to the world.”
Richard Baxter, The Practical Works vol. 2, 151.

10/08/2026

“The reading of books, what is it, but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries, who thereby communicate to us their most deliberate thoughts, choicest notions, and best inventions, couched in good expression, and digested in exact method?”
Isaac Barrow, Sermons, 332.

10/07/2026

“A minister must be furnished with books, as good helps to further his study, and these of all sorts. First, for humanities, of the several Arts of Ethics, Politics, Economics, Natural Philosophy, such as have written of trees, herbs, beasts, of Husbandry, Geography, Histories of Jewish customs, of their weights and measures, and what other matter the learned have written of for the Scriptures especially.”
Richard Bernard, The Faithful Shepherd, 38.

10/06/2026

“Seeing such books as have been mentioned should be read, it follows that men should therefore as their ability will permit have such books in their houses. Those who cannot purchase them should provide the best that may be obtained at a cheaper price by the help of their faithful and learned teachers—namely, sound and plain catechisms and godly sermons and treatises concerning faith and repentance. These should be viewed as another kind of household instrument, such as cards [a device for processing wool] and tables and similar things, without which the house is thought to be naked.”
Richard Rogers, Holy Helps for a Godly Life, 152.

10/05/2026

“Let your study be furnished not with many, but with choice books.”
Edmund Calamy, Saints’ Memorials, 38.

10/04/2026

“Books are the children of the brain.”
Thomas Watson, The Great Gain of Godliness, vii.

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Grand Rapids, MI
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