Archive for August 2015
Sunday’s Sermon: Evil vs. Good, Last Beatitude, and Predestination (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 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. 4 Simple Ways Fred Elliot Discipled His Children: Sean Nolan – Nolan says, “We do well to follow Fred’s lead. Rather than put a spotlight on all the things that…
Read MoreChristianity and Liberalism
One of the classic books that every Christian should read is J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. Right now Westminster Bookstore is having a sale, offering the book at 33% off! Here is more information about Machen’s important work: J. Gresham Machen was a famed Christian scholar about whom Moody Monthly said this: “Machen’s lifelong…
Read MoreGive them Truth (Starr Meade)
Our children cannot apply Scripture without knowing what it says. They cannot love Christ without knowing who he is. They can’t obey God without knowing what he has commanded. And they will not know these things if we do not provide deliberate, thorough, rigorous instruction, just as we would do for subjects like math or…
Read MoreCheck out the new issue of Credo Magazine!
Check it out…the new issue of Credo Magazine just released! “Let the children come to Jesus.” Click here to view the magazine as a PDF Ministry is complex. Business meetings, sermons, youth group, small groups, counseling sessions—the list is endless. In the midst of these many important ministries, sometimes churches can neglect one of the…
Read MoreSunday’s Sermon: Love, Atonement, and Total Depravity (Schreiner, Barrett, and 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 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. Pain: A Secret Garden of Pride: Marshall Segal – Segal says, “The Bible, as a book for the hurting and heart-broken, speaks above all of our suffering, whether it’s experienced…
Read MoreNew Issue: Let the children come to Jesus
The new issue of Credo Magazine is here: “Let the children come to Jesus.” Click here to view the magazine as a PDF Ministry is complex. Business meetings, sermons, youth group, small groups, counseling sessions—the list is endless. In the midst of these many important ministries, sometimes churches can neglect one of the most important…
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. Unanswered Prayers: Tim Lane – Lane says, “Have you ever wondered why it feels like so many of your prayers go unanswered? How often have you prayed for something and…
Read MoreSummer reading for church historians – part 3 (Matthew Barrett)
So I promised in my last post that I would do a follow up post and recommend several series in historical theology and church history for this summer’s reading. I am going to limit myself to just three, and each of these tends to be academic. (Come back in future weeks for more recommendations for…
Read MoreConfessions of a (More Recent) Bibliophile (Timothy Raymond)
Keith Mathison, over at the Ligionier Ministries blog, has written a delightful little essay entitled Confessions of a Bibliophile. (For those of you who don’t eat caviar, a bibliophile is an avid lover of books.) Keith muses on his lifelong love for reading, that he was reading Edgar Allen Poe at the tender age of…
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