My friend and former RTS Jackson student, and Ugandan missionary to Rwanda, Gerald Sseruwagi unexpectedly died yesterday. Gerald had an amazing testimony and lived his life for the Lord courageously. He was disowned by his family after becoming a Christian and as a boy grew up on the streets in Kampala, Uganda. He eventually earned two Master’s degrees at RTS Jackson and then went back to Africa to plant churches and minister to the destitute. In March of last year, Gerald and his family moved to Kigali, Rwanda where Gerald began…
“Acts of self denial and mortification are means and evidences of our sanctification, and such as we ought to abound in: but they are not the ground of our justification. It is Christ’s blood that makes the satisfaction, not our tears. Therefore we must not so remember former sins, as to put away present comforts. A life of repentance will very well consist with a life of holy cheerfulness.” – Matthew Henry, “The Communicant’s Companion”
One of the best-known and loved metrical psalms still in wide use today is this setting of Psalm 100. Metrical psalms used to be the core of what was sung in Protestant worship services (by Presbyterians, Anglicans, congregationalists and others). Metrical psalms are biblical psalms that have been versified to fit the various standard meters of tunes in common use for singing in congregational worship. The Protestant reformers wanted to restore congregational singing to the worship of the church, and they wanted Christians to know and sing the…
42nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Highlights, June 2014 | by Dr. David F. Coffin, Jr. 1,123 commissioners (867 Teaching Elders, 256 Ruling Elders) meeting in Houston, Texas. The theme of the Assembly was “Proclaim Christ, Disciple the Nations.” Overall the Assembly was marked by some very fine preaching in the worship services and thoughtful, charitable debate in the business sessions. The revised Assembly procedure for consideration of proposals (concisely put: “up, down or return”) continued to…
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy explains how “100 yrs ago this morning an angry young man killed an Archduke in Sarajevo & broke the world. We haven’t fixed it yet”
I received my first copy of D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones “Preaching and Preachers as a gift from a family in my home church as I was just beginning my studies in seminary. My copy was from the 14th printing of the first edition. I had been introduced…
The doctrine of sanctification is back on the frontburner of discussion in the Bible-believing Christian community. We live in a time of happy renewal of the Gospel accent, grace focus and Christ-centeredness of the preaching in our theological neck of the woods. This is a wonderful thing, for which we rejoice. The superficial practicality and ossified moralism that this emphasis replaces has been a plague on the well-being of Christians and churches. But this new emphasis brings its own…
July 16th Dr. Duncan will deliver a plenary address at the Matthew Henry Conference in Chester, England (see the full conference schedule below). The University of Chester in collaboration with the Chester Cathedral Library and the University of…
Archibald Alexander has some fascinating observations in his chapter “Imperfect Sanctification.–The Spiritual Warfare” in his famous book Thoughts on Religious Experience (1841) that are relevant to current discussions in the Reformed family on…