One Year of Being Presbyterian

Posted on Monday, December 8, 2014 by Todd Pruitt on 1517

What I am most grateful for after my first year of being Presbyterian...

In September of 2013 I took vows as a Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. Two months later I was officially installed as Lead Pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia. For all of this I am profoundly grateful. 
 
There were all sorts of things that led to my embrace of Presbyterianism. First there was the long and sometimes painful embrace of the Doctrines of Grace as undeniably biblical.

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Prone to Superficiality

Posted on Monday, December 8, 2014 by Aimee Byrd on Housewife Theologian

What happens when we only want what is dazzling, and spit out that which is plain.

So this is interesting. This weekend I began reading Karen Swallow Prior’s fantastic book on the life of Hannah More titled Fierce Convictions, and I stumbled upon a paragraph lamenting the quality of women’s reading material in the mid 18th century. I could have written something similar today: 
Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality.

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The Purpose of Biblical Miracles

Posted on Saturday, December 6, 2014 by Todd Pruitt on 1517

Miracles, Sermon Audio, Good Books

Last Sunday I continued preaching through the Book of Acts. The sermon is entitled "The Death of Dying" and was taken from Acts 9:32-43. It is the account of Peter's healing of Aeneas and the raising of Tabitha. Along the way I deal with the purpose of miracles. 

The following are some books I referenced:

Miracles by C.S. Lewis

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On Oden 2: Regarding the Dropping of Names and the Twaddle of Twitter

Posted on Friday, December 5, 2014 by Carl Trueman on Postcards from Palookaville

Humility and name dropping are hard to marry. Thomas Oden does it. But the Top Men Twitterati?

Aimee’s post earlier this week pointed to the complex relationship that inevitably exists between legitimate publicity and self-promotion.  When one ends and the other begins is not easy to discern.

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The Difference Between Ten Virgins

Posted on Friday, December 5, 2014 by Aimee Byrd on Housewife Theologian

So much in common, and yet a very significant difference.

There are quite a number of books that I have bought over the years with every intention to get to reading one day. They sit waiting for just the right time to crack open. Some people like to stock pile emergency items for their pantry in case of some sort of national disaster.

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Round and About

Posted on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 by Todd Pruitt on 1517

Some helpful and/or interesting links...

Much ink has been spilt over the situation in Ferguson. One article that is particularly worth reading is this piece by Tom Chantry. Dan Philips also made a worthy contribution to the conversation HERE. 

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I'm Not a Brand

Posted on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 by Aimee Byrd on Housewife Theologian

A reflection to reconsider.

I wrote this article a little while after signing my first book contract. About a year after it was published, a friend asked me if I regret writing the article. I can honestly say that I don't. As a matter of fact, I stand behind it even more now. Sure, I participate in marketing and think others should as well. But we should struggle with our methods, we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously, and we should always remember we are human beings and so are the people reading our books.

 

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The Mad Woman Speaks!

Posted on Wednesday, December 3, 2014 by Carl Trueman on Postcards from Palookaville

Listeners to this week's podcast who persevere to the (bald and) bitter end are in for a special treat: the voice of the axe wielding Mad Woman calling from the Attic as she rebukes Todd Pruitt for indulging one of his many vices on air.  

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Religion Without Fruit - Part One

By James Boice
Theme; Profession and Practice 
This week's lesson is a warning of dangers of hypocritical thinking and actions.
 
Scripture
Matthew 21:18-23
 
In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry.And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves.

We are in a section of Matthew’s Gospel that I have titled “The King’s Final Break with Judaism,” and we should be aware of how this is unfolding by now. We have had two symbolic actions: 1) the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem in which the Lord presented himself as Israel’s true King, knowing that he would be rejected by both the leaders and the masses of the people; and 2) the cleansing of the temple, which would be no more permanent now than it had proved to be the first time. In the verses we come to now we have a third symbolic action: the cursing and withering of the fig tree.

Oden's Patrimony

Posted on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 by Carl Trueman on Postcards from Palookaville

The first of a series of reflections on Thomas Oden's autobiography.

We three Ref Packers are all reading Thomas C. Oden’s beautifully written autobiography, A Change of Heart: A Personal and Theological Memoir, and will be posting numerous reflections on it, as well as making it the subject of a podcast.

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