Posted on November 11, 2009 by baptistparson
Book Fair Draws Authors, Readers
This is the story in our local town paper about the book fair at our Public Library Book Fair.
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Posted on October 19, 2009 by baptistparson
I want to revisit a quote I made from Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion about the starting place for all theology, worship, doctrine and morals. This is what he said:
“Man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he have previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into [...]
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Posted on October 8, 2009 by baptistparson
Recently, I ran across this quotation from W.H. Griffith Thomas in his excellent little book Life Abiding and Abounding (Chicago: The Bible Institute Colportage Association). Thomas is largely forgotten today–but that does a disservice to his astounding and varied literary labors. He deserves to be widely read because of his keen scholarship and clear writing, [...]
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Posted on August 21, 2009 by baptistparson
Little Son asks almost every night for the Parson to read to him before he goes to bed. We’ve run through the gamut of the familiar classics–there are some fine stories out there about unruly trains who go off the tracks, slow-moving puppies, and tugboats who get too big for their britches. Fine works, all–but [...]
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Posted on July 30, 2009 by baptistparson
There won’t be any new posts for a few days. The proofs of my first book, Born in the Heart of God: A History of Clear Creek Baptist Bible College, 1926-2008 have arrived, and I’ll be reviewing them over the next few days.
This project was started in November 2005, and is now just about [...]
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