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. 🙂
Calvin’s Practical View of Adoption: Its Privileges and Duties
Posted: April 30, 2009 Filed under: Adoption, John Calvin, Maarten Kuivenhoven Leave a commentMany who know me, know I love focusing my studies on Central-Gospel themes, doctrines, and issues of today that deal with the Gospel its’ self. I have wanted to spend sometime in my Masters of Arts writing on Calvin’s view of the Gospel truths in adoption and what it detailed. My last semester I was able to do so, and work with a fellow brother at seminary who helped me. Here is the paper Maarten Kuivenhoven and I worked on together this past month.
Banner Celebrating Calvin500
Posted: April 30, 2009 Filed under: Calvin 500 1 CommentBanner of Truth has announced a release of a 7-volume set of Calvin’s letters and tracts ($80). Find the information here.
For a good review see here.
The Monastic Movement Bibliography
Posted: April 30, 2009 Filed under: Medieval Bibliographies Leave a commentAthanasius. “Life of St. Antony,” in Schaff and Wace, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. IV. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980.
Bolton, Brenda. The Medieval Reformation. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1983.
Brooke, Christopher. The Monastic World. New York: Random House, 1974.
Brooke, Odo. Studies in Monastic Theology. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1980.
Budge, Wallis. The Wit and Wisdom of the Christian Fathers of Egypt. Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1934.
Chadwick, Owen, ed. Western Asceticism. Vol. XII in Library of Christian Classics. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1954.
Chapman, J. Saint Benedict and the Sixth Century. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1929.
Chitty, D. J. The Desert a City: An Introduction to the Study of Egyptian and Palestinian Monasticism under the Christian Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.
Clarke, W.K. Lowther, trans. The Ascetical Works of Saint Basil. New York: Macmillan, 1925.
Constable, Giles. Medieval Monasticism: A Select Bibliography. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1976.
Décarreaux, Jean. Monks and Civilization. Trans. Charlotte Haldane. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964.
Dunn, Marilyn. The Emergence of Monasticism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.
Elm, Susanna. “Virgins of God”: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Foster, Richard J. Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth. New York: Harper and Row, 1978.
Harnack, Adolf. Monasticism: Its Ideals and History. London: Williams and Norgate, 1901.
Johnson, Penelope D. Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Lawrence, C. H. Medieval Monasticism. New York: Longmans, 1984.
Leyser, Henrietta. Hermits and the New Monasticism. New York: St. Martin’s, 1984.
Little, Lester K. Religious Poverty and the Profit Economoy in Medieval Europe. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1978.
Mackean, W. H. Christian Monasticism in Egypt to the Close of the Fourth Century. London: SPCK, 1920.
McCann, Justin, trans. The Rule of Saint Benedict. London: Sheed and Ward, 1972.
Meisel, Anthony C. and M. L. del Mastro, trans. The Rule of St. Benedict. Garden City, N.Y.: Image Books, 1975.
Nichols, John, and Lillian Thomas Shank. Medieval Religious Women, 3 vols. Cistercian Studies Series, 71, 72, 113. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1984-95.
Nouwen, Henri J. The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1981.
Ranft, Patricia. Women and the Religious Life in Premodern Europe. New York: St. Martin’s, 1996.
Rousseau, Philip. Ascetics, Authority, and the Church in the Age of Jerome and Cassian. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Ryan, J. Irish Monasticism: Its Origins and Early Development. Dublin: Talbot, 1931.
Smith, I. G. Christian Monasticism from the Fourth to the Ninth Centuries of the Christian Era. London: A. D. Innes and Co., 1892.
Waddell, Helen. The Desert Fathers. London: Constable, 1936.
Ward, Benedicta. The Sayings of the Desert Fathers. London: Mowbray, 1984.
________. The Lives of the Desert Fathers. London: Mowbray, 1980.
Workman, H. B. The Evolution of the Monastic Ideal from the Earliest Times to the Coming of the Friars. London: Epworth Press, 1913.
The Emergence and Overview of Medieval Christianity Bibliography
Posted: April 30, 2009 Filed under: Medieval Bibliographies Leave a commentLooking for a Medieval Bibliography? I got a few… I’ll post them over the next few days.
Baldwin, Marshall. Christianity Through the Thirteenth Century. San Francisco: Harper & Row, n.d.
________. The Medieval Church. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1960.
Cannon, William R. History of Christianity in the Middle Ages. New York: Abingdon Press, 1960.
Coredon, Christopher. A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004.
Coulton, G. C. Life in the Middle Ages. 4 vols. Cambridge: University Press, 1928-1930.
Deanesley, Margaret. A History of Early Medieval Europe, 476 to 911. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1956.
Ganshof, F. L. Feudalism. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1961.
Henderson, Ernest. Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages. London: Bell and Sons, n.d.
Le Goff, Jacques. Medieval Civilisation, 400-1500. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988.
McEvedy, Colin. The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History. Baltimore: Penguin Books, n.d.
Price, Betsy B. Medieval Thought: An Introduction. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1992.
Principe, Walter. Introduction to Patristic and Medieval Theology. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1982.
Southern, R. W. Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1970.
Strayer, Joseph R. Western Europe in the Middle Ages. 3rd ed. New York: Harper Collins, 1982.
________, ed. Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 12 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1982-89.
Thompson, James W. and Edgar N. Johnson. An Introduction to Medieval Europe, 300-1500. New York: Norton, 1937.
Tierney, Brian, and Sidney Painter. Western Europe in the Middle Ages, 300-1475. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992.
Tierney, Brian, ed. Sources of Medieval History. 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983.
Vauchez, Andre, ed. Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. 2 vols. Trans. Adrian Walford. Cambridge: James Clarke, 2000.
Who were Medieval Theologians & What where they known for?
Posted: April 29, 2009 Filed under: Just for Fun 1 CommentBede
• A scholar, exegete, and historian
• The most important Christian scholar and writer of his era
• Wrote commentaries on the Bible, Known as “Father of English History”
• Also known as the “Venerable”
• Wrote on many issues including hymnology, geography, and natural phenomena
Gottschalk
• Held to extreme doctrine of predestination; held to double predestination
• Studied under Ratramnus
• Was good at missionary activity
Anslem of Canterbury
• Archbishop of Canterbury, was one of the greatest of all the medieval theologians
• “Father of Scholastic Theology”
• Gave first serious attempt to give a rationale for the atonement
• Held to satisfaction theory of the atonement
• Tried to establish the being of God on purely rationalistic grounds with his ontological argument
• Encouraged Marian piety but opposed immaculate conception
• Known for statement, “Faith seeking understanding”
Peter Abelard
• Philosopher, theologian, and teacher
• Pioneer of medieval scholasticism
• Held to moral influence theory of the atonement
• Held to moderate realism-universals are concepts in the mind that have an objective Reality derived from a process of mental abstraction
• Said reason plays as large a role as revelation and tradition in determining truth
• Known for his tragic love affair with Heloise
Bernard of Clairvaux
• Wrote mystical, theological and devotional works
• Was the official preacher of the 2nd crusade
• Helped heal papal schism of 1130
• Known as “the hammer of heretics”
• Wrote hymns
Peter Lombard
• Organized patristic and medieval citations into a coherent statement of Christian belief
• One of the first to mention seven sacraments
• A student of Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux
• Some questioned his Christology and his view of the Trinity but 4th Lateran Council of 1215 declared his works orthodox
• Book of Sentences used in academic circles until Aquinas’s Summa came out
Saint Bonaventure
• Franciscan scholastic theologian who was a Platonist
• Believed in journey of the human soul toward God
• Held that creation could be explained by human reason
• Believed mystical illumination better than human wisdom
• Denied doctrine of Immaculate Conception
Thomas Aqunas
• Most important theologian of the Medieval era
• Said there were five proofs for God’s existence (including cosmological and teleological arguments)
• Brought Aristotelian philosophy to Christianity
• Argued for a close connection between faith and reason; nature reveals much about God’s existence and attributes (matters such as Trinity, though, must be revealed through special revelation)
Duns Scotus
• Most distinguished Oxford scholar
• Held to priority of the will over the intellect
• Contributed to Roman Catholic view of the Immaculate Conception
• Believed in possible worlds
• Said God’s attributes not provable by reason
• Known as the ‘subtle doctor’
• The term “dunce” comes from him and was invented by his detractors
• Opposed Aquinas on almost every point
William of Ockham
• Medieval English theologian
• Held to nominalism
• Famous for “Ockham’s Razor” in which he claims that hypotheses should not be multiplied endlessly. Thus, the simplest solution for a matter is better than complicated ones.
• Had conflict with Pope John XXII
• Believed in priority of divine will over divine intellect
• Contributed to discussions of divine omnipotence
• Influenced by Duns Scotus
• Died of Black Death
John Huss
• Early Czech reformer
• Attacked clerical abuses and immorality in the church
• Excommunicated by Pope Alexander V in 1410
• Held a blend of Protestant and Roman Catholic doctrines-argued against veneration of pope but accepted Purgatory; held to view similar to consubstantiation
• Stressed preaching and a pure life
• Was also a Bible translator
• Was influenced by Wycliff’s ideas
John Wycliffe
• Was known as the Morning Star of the Reformation because of his writings against transubstantiation and the pope
• Denied efficacy of the mass as well as rituals and ceremonies
• Saw church as predestined body of believers
• Said salvation is by grace
• Known as the author or inspirer of the first complete translation of the Bible into English
• Known as Evening Star of scholasticism.
• Was the last of the Oxford scholastics
• His followers were called Lollards
• Hus adopted his teachings
Beeke & Dewalt at the Gospel Coalition
Posted: April 28, 2009 Filed under: The Gospel Coalition Conference Leave a commentI am in this video, so I might as well post it on here too.
Joel Beeke at the Gospel Coalition from Puritan Reformed on Vimeo.
In Living Color
Posted: April 28, 2009 Filed under: Book of the Week 2 Comments
In Living Color: Images of Christ and the Means of Grace (Grandville, MI: Reformed Fellowship, 2009). 192pp. Paperback. $13.00.
Danny Hyde has written an excellent piece on a very misunderstood subject. Through effective combination of biblical, theological, and confessional discussions, he has presented the Reformed view of the second commandment winsomely and attractively. He helpfully emphasizes not the negative prohibition of making images of God but the positive facts that God has revealed himself now so generously in Word and Sacrament and will one day reveal himself visibly in the most perfect and authentic way.
—David VanDrunen, Robert B. Strimple Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics, Westminster Seminary California
In these pages, Danny Hyde argues with great clarity against all images of Jesus as man-made media. He shows that all such images are abominated in Scripture and roundly rejected by the Reformed confessional heritage without exception. Hyde goes on to argue, however, that God does provide us with His “media”—the preaching of His Word and the administration of His sacraments.
—Joel R. Beeke, President, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary
For Young Calvin Scholars
Posted: April 27, 2009 Filed under: Calvin 500, You Might be a Calvinist if... Leave a commentYou might be a “Young” Calvinist if…
Part of our Tribute Conference in Geneva during July (schedule posted here), will feature an afternoon session devoted to papers presented by Young Calvin Scholars. To present a summary of a paper at the Geneva Conference on July 8, 2009 in the afternoon, the paper (5,000-7,500 words) must meet the following qualifications:
- Must be submitted electronically in English to David Hall by June 12, 2009 in MS Word format;
- Must be an original work by a registered participant at the conference under 45 years of age, with at least a Masters in related studies;
- Must focus on some topic addressed by John Calvin, using Calvin as a primary source.
Prizes will be awarded, and recognition will be given in the published volume of Proceedings from the conference. Prizes are as follows:
- First Prize $300
- Second Prize $150
- Third Prize $100
Professors, advisors, and participants are asked to spread the word and encourage some of our best young Calvin scholars to attend and present their work.
Hope to see you there! And if so? let me know you are going! I’ll be live blogging and Twittering the whole Tour.
What to Leave Children
Posted: April 26, 2009 Filed under: Sundays with Spurgeon 1 CommentThe just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. (Proverbs 20:7)
Anxiety about our family is natural, but we shall be wise if we turn it into care about our own character. If we walk before the Lord in integrity, we shall do more to bless our descendants than if we bequeathed them large estates. A father’s holy life is a rich legacy for his sons.
The upright man leaves his heirs his example, and this in itself will be a mine of true wealth, How many men may trace their success in life to the example of their parents!
He leaves them also his repute. Men think better of us as the sons of a man who could be trusted, the successors of a tradesman of excellent repute, Oh, that all young men were anxious to keep up the family name!
Above all, he leaves his children his prayers and the blessing of a prayer-hearing God, and these make our offspring to be favored among the sons of men. God will save them even after we are dead. Oh, that they might be saved at once!
Our integrity may be God’s means of saving our sons and daughters. If they see the truth of our religion proved by our lives, it may be that they will believe in Jesus for themselves. Lord, fulfill this word to my household!
Reprinted & Released Today
Posted: April 25, 2009 Filed under: Book of the Week, Soli Deo Gloria Leave a comment
Title:
A Treatise on the Law and Gospel
John Colquhoun (1748–1827) was a minister in the Church of Scotland whose sermons and writings reflect those of the Marrow brethren of the Secession church. Colquhoun’s writings are theologically astute and intensely practical. He wrote on the core doctrines of the gospel, particularly on experiential soteriology.
In this book, Colquhoun helps us understand the precise relationship between law and gospel. He also impresses us with the importance of knowing this relationship. Colquhoun especially excels in showing how important the law is as a believer’s rule of life without doing injury to the freeness and fullness of the gospel. By implication, he enables us to draw four practical conclusions: 1) the law shows us how to live, 2) the law as a rule of life combats both antinomianism and legalism, 3) the law shows us how to love, and 4) the law promotes true freedom.
Contents:
1. The Law of God or the Moral Law in General
2. The Law of God as Promulgated to the Israelites from Mount Sinai
3. The Properties of the Moral Law
4. The Rules for Understanding Aright the Ten Commandments
5. The Gospel of Christ
6. The Uses of the Gospel, and of the Law in Subservience to It
7. The Difference between the Law and the Gospel
8. The Agreement between the Law and the Gospel
9. The Establishment of the Law by the Gospel
10. The Believer’s Privilege of Being Dead to the Law as a Covenant of Works
11. The High Obligations under Which Believers Lie
12. The Nature, Necessity, and Desert of Good Works
Quote from the Author:
“The law and the gospel are the principal parts of divine revelation; or rather they are the center, sum, and substance of all the other parts of it. Every passage of sacred Scripture is either law or gospel, or is capable of being referred either to the one or to the other . . . If then a man cannot distinguish aright between the law and the gospel, he cannot rightly understand so much as a single article of divine truth. If he does not have spiritual and just apprehensions of the holy law, he cannot have spiritual and transforming discoveries of the glorious gospel; and, on the other hand, if his view of the gospel is erroneous, his notions of the law cannot be right.”—John Colquhoun
Precious Blood: The Atoning Work of Christ
Posted: April 23, 2009 Filed under: Christ Leave a comment
A Must Have, I read a lot, reviewing titles, reading for class after class, but today I read a fantastic title. I received this week a title that is just Gospel-Centered & Christ-Centered as can be – Precious Blood: The Atoning Work of Christ.
In this second volume of essays from the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology, several noted preachers join editor Richard Phillips in exploring the doctrine of Christ’s atonement and its history in Christian thought.
At the very heart of Christian faith is the blood of Jesus. His sin-atoning death is the divine work on which the entire structure of salvation rests and the truth on which the Christian doctrine of salvation must be built. Yet recent years have seen a pastoral neglect of the cross and a doctrinal assault from the academy.
With these concerns in mind, R. C. Sproul, Philip Ryken, Joel Beeke, Derek Thomas, Carl Trueman, and Robert Godfrey have joined editor Richard Phillips in exploring the doctrine of Christ’s atonement. These noted pastors proclaim the (1) necessary, (2) redeeming, (3) cleansing, (4) atoning, (5) offensive, and (6) precious blood of our Savior in a series of essays that set the cross in its rightful place—at the forefront of salvation.
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Posted: April 22, 2009 Filed under: Just for Fun Leave a commentWhich Device Could You NOT Live Without?
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Posted: April 20, 2009 Filed under: The Gospel Coalition Conference Leave a comment
RHB is giving away 5 copies of The Soul of Life: The Piety of John Calvin, by Dr. Joel R. Beeke to some of the followers of The Gospel Coalition Network.
Book Information:
John Calvin is the most notable figure from the Reformed tradition. Unfortunately, he is often characterized as a stern and cerebral individual who had little concern for practical matters. However, Calvin was actually influential in promoting a profound sense of piety among early Protestantism. In “The Soul of Life”, Joel R. Beeke presents the life and ministry of Calvin with a special emphasis on Calvin’s efforts for cultivating healthy spirituality among the churches. The selections from Calvin’s own work will give readers a firsthand look at Calvin’s emphasis on godliness, and by God’s grace, will be a means for spurring on greater godliness in our day.
An Expert Searcher
Posted: April 19, 2009 Filed under: Sundays with Spurgeon Leave a commentFor thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. (Ezekiel 34:11)
This He does at the first when His elect are like wandering sheep that know not the Shepherd or the fold. How wonderfully doth the Lord find out His chosen! Jesus is great as a seeking Shepherd as well as a saving Shepherd. Though many of those His Father gave Him have gone as near to hell-gate as they well can, yet the Lord by searching and seeking discovers them and draws nigh to them in grace. He has sought out us: let us have good hope for those who are laid upon our hearts in prayer, for He will find them out also.
The Lord repeats this process when any of His flock stray from the pastures of truth and holiness. They may fall into gross error, sad sin, and grievous hardness; but yet the Lord, who has become a surety for them to His Father, will not suffer one of them to go so far as to perish. He will by providence and grace pursue them into foreign lands, into abodes of poverty, into dens of obscurity, into depths of despair; He will not lose one of all that the Father has given Him. It is a point of honor with Jesus to seek and to save all the flock, without a single exception. What a promise to plead, if at this hour I am compelled to cry, “I have gone astray like a lost sheep!”
Conference in the Philippines
Posted: April 18, 2009 Filed under: Brian Najapfour Leave a comment(Posted by Brian Golez Najapfour)
We have good news. I just talked this afternoon with Dr. Beeke about the upcoming conference in Manila. He said to me that someone graciously donated money for the conference to make it FREE for whoever wants to attend. No conference fee; food is free; books are free; everything is free. What a blessing! We really praise the Lord for that!
Please forward this good news to our fellow laborers there in the Philippines.
WHEN: May 4-5, 2009 Registration starts at 8:00 a.m.
WHERE: Faith Baptist Church, #4 Bulletin St. Corner West Ave. West Triangle, Quezon City
For more information about the conference, visit here.
Gospel-Centered Musings 