Team Spin Takes Yale Divinity School, Part One

Posted on Tuesday, May 12, 2015 by Carl Trueman on Postcards from Palookaville

The Spin Team (or most of it) speak at a seminar at Yale Divinity School.

Todd and I are spending much of this week attending a private Church Leadership and Growth seminar at Yale Divinity School, organized by my old postgraduate friend, Bruce Gordon, the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History and co-editor with me of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Calvinism.

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Van Gogh Isn't the Only One Missing an Ear

Posted on Tuesday, May 12, 2015 by Aimee Byrd on Housewife Theologian

More reasons to hold on to our ears.

Confronting someone who is in sin or error with the truth is a very sensitive topic. As we strive to teach with truth in love, Christians often disagree about delivery. At times it’s hard to discern when we are being overly offensive or not offensive enough. Sometimes we are just plain ignored. 
We want our message to be heard and received. But with the culture becoming more and more hostile to Christian teaching, there have been attempts and pleas to make the content of our faith more palatable.

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Jesus’ Healing Work Today

Posted 5/12/15 by Donald Barnhouse
I suppose that village was the healthiest place on the face of the earth. When the Lord Jesus Christ heals, it’s not the type of thing that people today call “divine healing.” Years ago, when I first began my radio ministry, I had lunch with a dear Christian man. As we ate, he said, “Dr. Barnhouse, you have no idea how the conservatives of this city rejoice that there’s a fundamental voice on the radio,” because at that time there was no other. “You know, it’s so wonderful,” he continued, “if you had just one more doctrine, it would be perfect.”

 

 
Theme: The Life of a Servant
 
SCRIPTURE
Mark 1:32-34
 
That evening at sundown they brought to him all who were sick or oppressed by demons. And the whole city was gathered together at the door. And he healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons. And he would not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him.

LESSON

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The Permanent Fall of Judas - Part Five

By James Boice

Theme: The only sure path to salvation.
This weeks lessons show us the difference between remorse and repentance.

SCRIPTURE
Matthew 27:3-5

One of the bad things about sin is that its course is always downhill. Judas had a bad end, but we should remember that it did not come about at once. He was an evil man, just like the rulers of the day. But Judas did not start out that way. At one time he must have been an innocent-looking baby smiling in his mother’s arms. We all begin like that. But somewhere Judas’ life took an evil downturn, and his eventual suicide was the result. What was Judas’ life story like? We do not have many details. There is no reason we should. But what we do know about him goes something like this.

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Theology on the Go Definite Atonement

by Jonathan Master • May 11, 2015
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This week on Theology on the Go, Dr. Jonathan Master is joined by Dr. Jonathan Gibson, co-editor of a recent scholarly work on definite atonement, From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective. Listen in as they discuss the important topic of definite atonement!

This week on Theology on the Go, Dr. Jonathan Master is joined by Dr. Jonathan Gibson, co-editor of a recent scholarly work on definite atonement, From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective. Listen in as they discuss the important topic of definite atonement!

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Grace that Instructs

by Jeffrey Stivason • May 11, 2015
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Cardinal Bellarmine (1542-1621) was a well-known figure of the Counter-Reformation and was no mean theologian.  He was Pope Clement VIII’s personal theologian and in 1930 he was canonized and consequently named a Doctor of the Church.  Protestants often reflect on the Reformation as the time in which the doctrine of justification was once again restored to a Biblical foundation.  However, according to Bellarmine, the greatest error of Protestantism was not its doctrine of justification. 

Cardinal Bellarmine (1542-1621) was a well-known figure of the Counter-Reformation and was no mean theologian.  He was Pope Clement VIII’s personal theologian and in 1930 he was canonized and consequently named a Doctor of the Church.  Protestants often reflect on the Reformation as the time in which the doctrine of justification was once again restored to a Biblical foundation.  However, according to Bellarmine, the greatest error of Protestantism was not its doctrine of justification. 

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The Permanent Fall of Judas - Part Four

By James Boice

Theme: The only sure path to salvation.
This weeks lessons show us the difference between remorse and repentance.

SCRIPTURE
Matthew 27:3-5

Let’s get back to the story and look at a few more lessons from Judas’ actions. First, partners in evil are not friends. It is common to speak of honor among thieves or imagine sentimental bonds among those who do evil. But nothing could be farther from the truth. Those who share in evil actions are not friends, and the reason they are not is because each is evil. They do not live for one another or to help one another. Christians do. But evil persons live for themselves, and when a comrade gets in trouble they are the first to abandon him to save their own hides. This was the case with the callous response of the priests and elders to Judas’ confession. “What’s that to us” they replied. “That’s your responsibility” (v. 4), That is how evil friends will treat you if you link up with them.

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Jesus' Healing Touch

Posted 5/11/15 by Donald Barnhouse
Mark takes special note of the fact that Jesus took this woman by the hand (Mark 1:31). Mark was interested in details like this. In Mark 5:41, you find the young girl who was dead,and Jesus took her by the hand. In Mark 8:23, Jesus took the blind man by the hand. In Mark 9:27, Jesus took the young man with the dumb spirit by the hand and lifted him up. In Mark 9:36–37, “He took a child, and put him in the midst of them; and taking him in His arms.” Isn’t it interesting that Mark should point out five times in his little gospel that Jesus touched people? What power that touch had!
 
Theme: The Life of a Servant
 
SCRIPTURE
Mark 1:29-34
 
And immediately he left the synagogue and entered the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon's mother-in-law lay ill with a fever, and immediately they told him about her. And he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them.
That evening at sundown they brought to him all who were sick or oppressed by demons.

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TGC Calls the Church to Join Them

Posted on Friday, May 8, 2015 by Todd Pruitt on 1517

Where I touch the third rail and push back against The Gospel Coalition...

I have been preaching through the Book of Acts on Sunday mornings. It has been a blessing for me for all the reasons it is usually a blessing to be engaged weekly in sermon preparation and preaching to God’s people. One of the characteristic features of the Book of Acts is the blessed redundancy that characterizes Luke’s account of the earliest days of the church. That is, page after page, chapter after chapter the church is described going about what Jesus commissioned her to do.

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Vos 121

by David Garner • May 08, 2015
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Very little writing warrants reading more than once. Less still deserves numerous readings. An exclusive group of writings rises to the level of “must read once a year” for me. One of them is Geerhardus Vos’ inaugural lecture to his new post as Professor of Biblical Theology at Princeton on May 8, 1894. Today’s 121st anniversary of that lecture warrants remembering some of Vos’ fruitful insights.

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Very little writing warrants reading more than once. Less still deserves numerous readings. An exclusive group of writings rises to the level of “must read once a year” for me. One of them is Geerhardus Vos’ inaugural lecture to his new post as Professor of Biblical Theology at Princeton on May 8, 1894. Today’s 121st anniversary of that lecture warrants remembering some of Vos’ fruitful insights.

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