Archive for December 2011
Did the Puritans Dislike Christmas Pudding?
By Michael A.G. Haykin – Back in the fall of 2008, while speaking at Hespeler Baptist Church on the Puritans, a friend gave me a page she had found in the catalogue of a British firm that shipped various British foods overseas. This particular page advertised Christmas pudding. Part of the ad ran thus: “Christmas…
Read MoreLast Day for Book Giveaways!
Today is the last day to enter to win in this week’s book giveaways! We are giving these books away as we gear up for the January issue of Credo Magazine, “In Christ Alone.” So what is Credo Magazine giving away this week as we prepare for January? Three books from B&H. To find out…
Read MoreO Holy Night
This may be the worst rendition of O Holy Night ever…and it only gets worse towards the end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyhJbfDL1xY&feature=player_embedded Tweet
Read MoreThe Message of Christmas: Present and Future Joy (Psalm 126)
By Thomas Schreiner – C. S. Lewis wrote the autobiography of his conversion in a book aptly titled Surprised by Joy. Lewis said, “Joy, must be sharply distinguished both from Happiness and Pleasure. Joy has indeed one characteristic, and one only, in common with them; the fact that anyone who has experienced it will want…
Read MoreBenjamin Breckinridge Warfield on the Incarnation
By Fred G. Zaspel – Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851-1921) is well known as the great polemic theologian of Old Princeton Seminary. He is also well known as the great exponent of the inspiration and authority of Scripture. Accurate as these pieces of biographical data are, however, neither captures the heart of this great Princetonian.…
Read MoreOnly two more days for book giveaways!
Don’t miss this week’s book giveaways from B&H as we prepare for the January issue of Credo Magazine, “In Christ Alone.” Go here to find out what books we are giving away and enter to win!
Read MoreBook Giveaways: Sin, Christ, and Apologetics
Don’t miss this week’s book giveaways from B&H as we prepare for the January issue of Credo Magazine, “In Christ Alone.” Go here to find out what books we are giving away and enter to win!
Read MoreOf Graces, Virtues, and Values
By A.B. Caneday Each year during this season of the year, as Christmas approaches, animosity toward Christ, toward Christianity, and toward Christians invariably seems to escalate. Many atheists and secularists, alleging constitutional authority to keep church and state separate, are determined to squeeze every vestige of Christ out of the public square, especially at Christmas.…
Read MoreJesus Storybook Bible and Song of the Stars
By Matthew Barrett – One of my favorite actors is David Suchet. I think he is very gifted and if you have not seen him play the famous detective, Hercule Poirot, in the Agatha Christie novels-turned-movies, well then, you are seriously missing out. But anyway, it is delight to the ears to hear Suchet read…
Read MoreTom Schreiner Rapping
Tom Schreiner. Rapping. Union with Christ. Curtis Allen. Need I say more? Union with Christ Feat. Tom Schreiner by Curtis Allen Tweet
Read MoreBaptist Responses to Inclusivism in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Chris Morgan)
One of the best Baptist theologians of our day is Chris Morgan, Professor of Theology and Dean of the School of Christian Ministries at California Baptist University. He is the author of many books, including: Jonathan Edwards and Hell A Theology of James: Wisdom for God’s People Here has also co-edited a handful of books…
Read MoreDon’t miss this week’s book giveaways!
The last four weeks we have been giving away books in our excitement for the upcoming January issue of Credo Magazine, “In Christ Alone.” The January issue of Credo will focus its attention on the exclusivity of the gospel, especially in light of the movement known as inclusivism. This issue will seek to answer questions…
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