Suggested Resources on Race and our History for the…
Suggested Resources on Race and our History for the Presbytery of the Mississippi Valley Important Online Resources: Race and Church Thabiti Anyabwile, “Jonathan Edwards, Slavery, and the Theology of African Americans,” https://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/justintaylor/files/2012/02/Thabiti-Jonathan-Edwards-slavery-and-theological-appropriation.pdf Thabiti Anyabwile, “Bondage or Freedom? Questions in Early American Theology,” The John L. Girardeau Lectures, First Presbyterian Church (ARP), Columbia, SC http://www.firstprescolumbia.org/om-girardeau Lecture 1 Audio – “Reformed Theology and the Status Quo” Lecture 2 Audio – “Reformed Theology and Social Change” Otis Westbrook Pickett, Race and the American Church, Reformation21 Part 1…
Christians tend to be encouraged about their justification (if they understand it), but sometimes discouraged about their sanctification (or seeming lack thereof). Consequently, they miss out of something that is intended to be a blessing from God for them for their good and His glory. There are also some bad slogans about and approaches to sanctification on the market out there (perhaps because of the above-mentioned discouragements associated with it). Sometimes preaching that wants to avoid being antinomian, ends up using so many imperatives…
Psalm 1 may well give us the key to the whole Christian life in its first sentence. As I have studied Genesis 1-2 over the years, I have become more and more aware of the way it connects blessing and obedience. In Genesis 1-2, the commands are blessings and the blessings come in the form of command. That same connection is evident in the first sentence of the Psalter, and that cannot be mere coincidence. As the first thing that God did for man in his creation was to bless him (Genesis 1:28), as the first words God ever spoke to man and that man…
William S. Plumer’s commentary on the Psalms is a massive volume of practical divinity and an overlooked treasure. Here are five gems from his “Devotional Thoughts” on Psalm 1. All preaching and writing, which uniformly fail to…
Over the years, I have been asked by a number of folks if they could access my PhD thesis, done at the University of Edinburgh, New College, under a towering scholar of early Christianity, the late David F. Wright. The topic was the use of…
The Gospel Coalition (TGC) and the Theological Famine Relief Project of TGC International Outreach A Report by Ligon Duncan Chancellor and John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology Reformed Theological Seminary We have…
It is to take nothing away from the rest of the imperatives of the New Testament to say that the great fight of the Christian life is to trust God. To trust his promises, to trust his providence, to trust his goodness and love, to trust his presence…