New book release!
Seeing the Big Picture
Holiness. We admire it, aspire to it and feel it’s distance. How can sinful people draw near to a holy God? How could a holy God ever invite us?
David Gooding shows us the big picture of Leviticus. Israel, now redeemed from slavery, journeys to the promised land, and we listen as the transcendent Lord calls again. He has called from the splendour of Eden and the wonder of the burning bush. Now he calls from the tabernacle where he will dwell among his people. He invites them to discover the beauty of his holiness and to learn how he can bring them close.
In all its solemnity, Leviticus is a book of joyful hope, pointing forward to Jesus Christ by whose perfect sacrifice we discover that the holy God has made a way for sinful people to come near to worship and serve him in holiness.
Release date: 28 November 2026
Save the date!
An Afternoon & Evening with
Dr Peter Williams
Principal of Tyndale House Cambridge
Saturday 28 November 2026
Venue: Crescent Church, 6 University Road, Belfast, BT7 1NH
Myrtlefield Seminar
Help me read the Bible better: The Genius of Jesus' Teaching
2:30 for 3pm start
What if Jesus’ stories are far more intricate than we’ve realized? Drawing on years of research behind his book The Surprising Genius of Jesus, Dr Peter J. Williams will take us back into the Gospels to uncover the Old Testament echoes, linguistic skill, and narrative artistry that show Jesus to be the greatest teacher of all time. And he will help us to see how Jesus’ use of story, Scripture, and understanding of the human heart reshapes how we proclaim the gospel both personally and in public teaching.
Myrtlefield Lecture
Why a ploughboy should read the Bible: Tyndale's vision for everyone to know God's Word today
7:30 for 8pm start
Five hundred years after William Tyndale, why does his vision still matter? Dr Peter J. Williams will explore with us how Tyndale’s passion to put Scripture into ordinary hands lives on and what it means for us to take the Bible seriously in our own generation.
Every Christian today stands in the debt of William Tyndale, who risked and finally gave his life so that ordinary believers—not only clergy—could read the New Testament in their own language and judge all teaching by Scripture. Five hundred years after the 1526 Tyndale New Testament, Dr Williams will show how Tyndale’s passion to put the Bible into the hands of ‘the boy that driveth the plough’ still challenges the church to make sure every believer can know, love, and understand God’s Word for themselves—so that whole congregations become confident, discerning Bible readers who can stand firm in a confused age.
Coming Soon!
New Website
Release date: Late 2026
We are undergoing a rebrand! Our upcoming website will feature:
A new design, including modernized logo, font and colour palette
Improved layout for easier navigation
Resources categorized into ‘Begin here’, ‘Go Further’ and Extend your Study’, to guide you in your journey into a particular Bible book or topic
Enhanced search capabilities to seamlessly find what you are looking for
We have seen what the designers, DHD, have created for us, and we can’t wait to share it with you!
New Podcast
Release Date: 25 November
What is worldliness? Why are Christians to overcome the world, and in what ways does the ruler of this world war against us?
In this six-part series, David Gooding uses Old and New Testament examples to illustrate the evil allure of the world and how its ruler seeks to corrupt our loyalty to God. He points out how the Lord Jesus outshines all the world’s deceptions, and that those who place their trust in him will not be overcome: they will be overcomers.
In studying what worldliness is, we can better recognize Satan’s clever attempts to draw us away from the Father’s love, and rejoice in the power of the Holy Spirit who enables us to resist them.
The first episode, ‘Overcoming the Prince of the World’, will be available on all major podcast platforms from 25 November.
New Books
The Joyful Gospel of Glorious Grace: God's Character Revealed in Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility [working title]
Release: Early 2027
This is a publication of Professor Gooding's talks on Scriptures that too often divide believers over questions of God's sovereignty and human free will.
You can watch/listen/read the original series here:
https://www.myrtlefieldhouse.com/sermons/the-glorious-gospel-of-the-blessed-god
Braving the Beasts: Daniel’s Faith in God as the Nations Raged [working title]
Release: Summer 2027
A treasure from the archives! This is from a manuscript that Professor Gooding wrote on the book of Daniel, which was never published. It was originally to be for young adults facing the kinds of pressures that Daniel and his friends encountered when they were exiled into a pagan society with all of its physical, spiritual and intellectual temptations to compromise their faith in God. We think it will be a good fit alongside his books Windows on Paradise (on Luke) and Journeys with Jesus (on John) because of the way he helps us to both see and feel the the book as a story, while unpacking the thought flow and how it contributes to the wider revelation of God in his word.
From Symbol to Reality: The Journeys of the Son of God in John’s Gospel
Release: 2027–2028
From the Editor:
Professor Gooding saw the fourth journey in John dividing into three sections: 1) 'Prelude to the Passover' (11–12); 2) 'Before the Passover: the hour having come that he should depart out of the world to the Father' (13–16); and 3) 'Father, the hour has come: glorify your Son' (17–21). As you'll see in this excerpt from one of the talks to be included in the book, he was well aware of the challenge posed by one journey in four taking up half of John's Gospel. But he argues that it's John's own emphases that direct us to see the breakdown. And if that's how the Holy Spirit inspired it to be written, then there must be good reasons for doing it that way, reasons well worth the effort of discovering. Drawing from the Prof’s material on this journey, here are three questions to explore while waiting (oh so patiently) for the book to be published:
What features are there in the text that moved him to link John chapter 11 with chapter 12, rather than seeing it as the climax of the third journey?
Why did he understand Christ's high priestly prayer in John 17 as being more thematically tied with what follows, rather than with the upper room ministry in chapters 13–16?
Why did he say that John's account of the crucifixion emphasizes the Lord Jesus as King, and Matthew's account emphasizes him as the Son of God?
While thinking of these things, if you can spare the time please do remember to pray for Josh as he works to complete this section. Many have said how much they're looking forward to having the whole book, but perhaps no one is more eager to see it published than he is!
Excerpt
By the time we reach the end of the third journey in John’s Gospel, we have only come to the end of chapter 10. There are twenty-one chapters in the Gospel, so we are not half-way through. On the surface, however, the final eleven chapters are devoted to the fourth and final journey: the journey of our Lord to Jerusalem on the occasion of the famous Passover. True to the pattern he goes to Jerusalem, and then in chapter 21 he departs into Galilee, which is one piece of evidence that chapter 21 is an original part of the Gospel.
The pattern for all the journeys is to Jerusalem and then back again. Why is there this tremendous emphasis, with eleven whole chapters given over to the fourth and final journey? After all, the second journey was covered in two chapters (5 and 6). Surely, the reasons are obvious, for it is in this final journey that he came officially to Jerusalem as king. In chapter 12, he came into Jerusalem. As the crowds were coming in with him, others were coming out of the city and they took their palm branches, and cried, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’ Our Lord Jesus deliberately mounted a donkey, thereby fulfilling Zechariah 9:
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. (v. 9 ESV)
So the first reason for its importance is that this was the official coming of Israel’s king to his capital city, Jerusalem. The other visits had been important, but none so important as this one.
Secondly, it was to be on this visit that he would fulfil Passover in its profoundest sense. He was to be the Lamb of God who would bear the wrath of God and so take away the sin of the world. When we get to the account of the crucifixion in chapter 19, we shall find the Passover regulation cited—‘no bone of him was broken’ (v. 36). It was written of the Passover lamb: ‘. . . and you shall not break any of its bones’ (Exod 12:46). He was going to die as the Passover Lamb.
There is a third reason why the record of this fourth visit is so long, and why it was so important. It was on the fourth visit particularly that our Lord was to join in battle with the prince of this world. It would be the occasion of that unique and cosmic struggle between the prince of this world on the one hand, and the true king of Israel on the other—the battle of the kings. Never was a bigger battle fought, nor ever will be fought. It is now in this Gospel that we begin to hear for the first time of the prince of this world.
The prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me . . . Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. (14:30; 12:31–32 KJV).
Hence the supreme importance of this fourth visit, and why it needs the number of chapters in John’s Gospel that it does.
Translations
The Letters of David W. Gooding and Changing Us for Glory are now published in German!
Bringing us to Glory in Albanian - being translated
Key Bible Concepts in Dutch - being edited
Christianity: Opium or Truth? in Farsi - being edited
Christianity: Opium or Truth? in Mandarin - being reviewed
The work continues in the last two languages, and we trust that the careful ground work being done will pave the way for other books to follow.
Prayer points
Pray for all of the translators, editors and reviewers who are involved in our translation projects.
Pray for Josh as he continues editing From Symbol to Reality.
Pray that the launch of the new website will be seamless, and that our resources will reach those who have not engaged with our material before.