Exam Week & Next Year
Posted: May 7, 2009 Filed under: My Life Leave a commentExam week
Enough is enough already! Man alive after only 3 and half days, I have written 4 exams in which each one took at least an hour and half and total over 20 pages in length. With about 2 days left and one exam Friday morning to finish my Masters of Arts, I cannot wait to have some type of break. No matter if it is lay on the couch, playing some 360, or heading home to Ohio and fishing with the buddies, I need one!
Plans for the Future
Many keep asking me if I am teaching, where am I going, what is next, so I am answering on my blog in as short as possible answer as I can post. I graduate with my Master os Arts in Religion next friday evening from Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. The plan after that is to start my Masters of Theology focusing on Biblical Theology, writing my Thesis on The Biblical Doctrine of Apostasy. I’ll start August 1st and will be sitting under Dr. Bilkes at PRTS as well, hoping (Lord willing) to graduate next May 2010 with my Th.M. and applying for Ph.D. programs next spring to further my studies before I look for teaching jobs. As in the mixed I will be getting married Oct. 10th of this year. Lots to do and a lot going on the next year, you can see exactly what and where on my schedule section on my blog if it really matters to ya.
RHB Just Got In…
Posted: May 6, 2009 Filed under: Book of the Week Leave a comment
RHB: $11.00
Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches
Russell D. Moore
The gospel of Jesus Christ—the good news that through Jesus we have been adopted as sons and daughters into God’s family—means that Christians ought to be at the forefront of the adoption of orphans in North America and around the world.
Russell D. Moore does not shy away from this call in Adopted for Life, a popular-level, practical manifesto for Christians to adopt children and to help equip other Christian families to do the same. He shows that adoption is not just about couples who want children—or who want more children. It is about an entire culture within evangelicalism, a culture that sees adoption as part of the Great Commission mandate and as a sign of the gospel itself.
Moore, who adopted two boys from Russia and has spoken widely on the subject, writes for couples considering adoption, families who have adopted children, and pastors who wish to encourage adoption.
Calvin500 Series volumes about to come out!!!
Posted: May 6, 2009 Filed under: Calvin 500 Leave a commentThe next volumes of our series are about to come out, released by our Calvin500 publishing partner, Presbyterian and Reformed (all volumes are available at their site or at the RHB button to the right). Or if you purchase from Amazon.com, why not request that this be included in the Kindle Store?!
The next to be released is The Piety of John Calvin by Ford Lewis Battles.
To get a sense of this, see the Foreword. HERE
Voddie Baucham Supremacy of Christ
Posted: May 5, 2009 Filed under: Video of the Week Leave a commentChallenges to the Gregorian Line of the Church
Posted: May 4, 2009 Filed under: Medieval Bibliographies Leave a commentAllies, Mary H. On Holy Images. Trans. of John of Damascus. Philadelphia: J. M. McVey, 1898.
Aston, M. England’s Iconoclasts. Volume 1: Laws against Images. Oxford: University Press, 1988.
Brooke, Rosalind and Christopher. Popular Religion in the Middle Ages. London: Thames and Hudson, 1984.
Brown, Peter. “A Dark-Age Crisis: Aspects of the Iconoclastic Controversy,” in The English Historical Review (January 1973): 1-34.
Browne, L. E. The Eclipse of Christianity in Asia from the Time of Mohammed Till the Fourteenth Century. Cambridge: University Press, 1933.
Frend, William H. Clifford. The Rise of the Monophysite Movement: Chapters in the History of the Church in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.
Gough, Michael. The Origins of Christian Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 1973.
Haines, C. R. Christianity and Islam in Spain, 756-1030. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1889.
Martin, Edward J. A History of the Iconoclastic Controversy. London: SPCK, 1930.
Millikan, David. Theology News & Notes. Pasadena, Cal.: Fuller, October 1974.
Ugolnik, Anthony. The Illuminating Icon. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989.
CT Interviews Rob Bell
Posted: May 4, 2009 Filed under: Just for Fun, You Might be a Calvinist if... Leave a commentYou might be a Calvinist if… you read Rob Bell on the Gospel, and it makes you sick!
To register for a Calvin500
Posted: May 3, 2009 Filed under: Calvin 500 Leave a commentTo register for a Calvin500 “Conference Only” for a discount, please do so by May 15 to receive the discounted price. Of course, you may still join us in Geneva and register at the door, but the best prices (same for flights, hotels) are now!
If you wish to register for the Geneva “Conference Only” Package, assuming responsibility for your own arrangements, please register here.
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Spiritual Sowing
Posted: May 3, 2009 Filed under: Sundays with Spurgeon Leave a commentHe that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. (Galatians 6:8)
Sowing looks like a losing business, for we put good corn into the ground never to see it anymore. Sowing to the Spirit seems a very fanciful, dreamy business; for we deny ourselves and apparently get nothing for it. Yet if we sow to the Spirit by studying to live unto God, seeking to obey the will of God, and laying ourselves out to promote His honor, we shall not sow in vain. Life shall be our reward, even everlasting life. This we enjoy here as we enter into the knowledge of God, communion with God, and enjoyment of God. This life flows on like an ever-deepening, ever-widening river till it bears us to the ocean of infinite felicity, where the life of God is ours forever and ever.
Let us not this day sow to our flesh, for the harvest will be corruption, since flesh always tends that way; but with holy self-conquest let us live for the highest, purest, and most spiritual ends, seeking to honor our most holy Lord by obeying His most gracious Spirit. What a harvest will that be when we reap life everlasting! What sheaves of endless bliss will be reaped! What a festival will that harvest be! Lord, make us such reapers, for thy Son’s sake.
Medieval Missions and Evangelism
Posted: May 2, 2009 Filed under: Medieval Bibliographies Leave a commentAddison, J. T. The Medieval Missionary, A Study of the Conversion of Northern Europe, 500-1300. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938.
Bede, Venerable. Ecclesiastical History of the English People. New York: Oxford, 1969.
Cavadini, J. C., ed. Gregory the Great: A Symposium. Notre Dame, Ind.: University Press, 1995.
Dudden, F. H. Gregory the Great: His Place in History and Thought. New York, 1967.
Latourette, Kenneth Scott. A History of the Expansion of Christianity, 7 vols. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1970.
Markus, R. A. Gregory the Great and His World. Cambridge: University Press, 1997.
________. “Gregory the Great and Papal Missionary Strategy,” in Studies in Church History, Vol. VI. Oxford: Blackwell & Mott, 1970.
Mayr-Harting, H. The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England. London: Batsford, 1972.
Mingana, A. The Early Spread of Christianity in India. Manchester: University Press, 1926.
________. “The Early Spread of Christianity in Central Asia and the Far East,” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester (July 1925): 1-80.
Moule, A. C. Christians in China before the Year 1550. London: SPCK, 1930.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. New York: Penguin Books, 1964.
Spearing, E. The Patrimony of the Roman Church in the Time of Gregory the Great. New York: Macmillan, 1918.
Walroud, F. F. Christian Missions before the Reformation. London: SPCK, n.d.
PRTS Update May 2009
Posted: May 1, 2009 Filed under: PRTS Leave a commentIf you look closely enough you’ll find the shortest sentence in the whole flyer done by me. 🙂
Gospel-Centered Musings 