Archive for August 2014
Credo’s Cache
Each week we will be highlighting important resources. Check back each Friday to see what we have dug up for you. From this week’s cache: 1. Multiplying Disciples in Bivocational Ministry: By Nick Abraham – Abraham says: “For those pastors, being bivocational was not a choice instead of full-time vocational ministry, it was the norm and more…
Read MoreMore advice to students
Zondervan continues to release videos highlighting what advice professors have for students. Here are a couple of others from Oliver Crisp, Bill Barrick, Miles Van Pelt, Wayne Grudem, Albert Mohler, Scott Rae, and Bill Mounce:
Read MoreA Puritan plea for intolerance and a Puritan imprecatory prayer (Michael A.G. Haykin)
It was Oliver Cromwell who once noted that every sect cries for toleration, but once they have it, they will not give it to any other body of believers. He knew the heart of all too many of his fellow Puritans only too well. A good example would be Nathaniel Ward (1578–1652), a graduate of…
Read MoreEvangelistic Calvinism: The Doctrines of Grace in the Sermons of George Whitefield (Thomas J. Nettles)
In the new issue of Credo Magazine, “George Whitefield at 300,” Thomas Nettles has contributed an article titled, “Evangelistic Calvinism: The Doctrines of Grace in the Sermons of George Whitefield.” Nettles is former Professor of Historical Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of many books, including Living by Revealed Truth:…
Read MoreBeholding the Glory of Christ
In the very last verse of 1 John we are told to keep ourselves from idols, and this is a fight each day. We are warned that many will come to the day of final judgment and say “Lord, Lord” to Jesus, but he will not know them (Matt. 7:21). John Owen offers a stirring…
Read MoreSunday’s Sermon (Schreiner, Barrett, Zaspel)
Three of Credo Magazine’s main contributors include Thomas Schreiner, Fred Zaspel, and Matthew Barrett. Each of them are professors, but they are also pastors. So each Monday morning we will be highlighting their “Sunday’s Sermon” on the blog to provide you with encouragement throughout the week and an opportunity to study God’s Word.
Read MoreBlood Speaks (Fred Zaspel)
Did you know that blood speaks? It is an unusual metaphor but a wonderfully expressive one that we find in Hebrews 12:24. Here we read that we who believe have come “to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.” The…
Read MoreCredo’s Cache
Each week we will be highlighting important resources. Check back each Friday to see what we have dug up for you. From this week’s cache: 1. Union with Christ and Sanctification: By Rick Phillips – Phillips says: “The Bible conceives of union with Christ in terms of a marriage between a bride and her groom, in which…
Read MoreRegistration now open for “Whitefield & the Great Awakening”
From Steve Weaver over at the Andrew Fuller Center: Registration is now open for this year’s conference on George Whitefield and the Great Awakening. This will be the eighth annual conference of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at Southern Seminary and it promises to be one of the best. The conference speakers are…
Read MoreCaleb Evans refutes Antinomianism (Michael A.G. Haykin)
A month or so before the seizure of the Bastille in 1789, an association of English Particular Baptist churches in the West Country met, as was their annual wont, for two days of worship and fellowship. This annual meeting on this occasion—June 3–4, 1789—took place at Horsley, Gloucs., where the redoubtable Benjamin Francis was the…
Read MoreGod’s anointed barnstormer: Lee Gatiss explains the holy violence of Whitefield’s preaching
In the new issue of Credo Magazine, “George Whitefield at 300,” Matthew Barrett, executive editor of Credo Magazine, interviewed Lee Gatiss in an interview titled, “God’s anointed barnstormer: Lee Gatiss explains the holy violence of Whitefield’s preaching.” Gatiss is the Director of Church Society, an Anglican Evangelical ministry based in the UK, and Adjunct Lecturer…
Read MoreIn the Land of Nod: Two Kingdoms lectures by Kim Riddlebarger
Over at the Riddleblog, Kim Riddlebarger has made available eleven lectures interacting with the Reformed understanding of the “Two Kingdoms.” The lecture series is called, “In the Land of Nod.” These lectures were given at Christ Reformed Church’s Friday Night Academy from Sept 2013-June 2014. Here is a little about Riddlebarger: Dr. Kim Riddlebarger is senior…
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