Tidbit time

It seems many have already seen and noted that Collin Hansen, author of the celebrated Young, Restless, and Reformed, recently mentioned Kevin Bauder, president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary, in a blog post on fundamentalism at The Reformed Resurgence blog.
What some of you may not know is that Hansen actually referenced Central Baptist Theological Seminary [...]

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Spurgeon on pastoral prayer

My pastor Doug Roman put together a very helpful list of several good citations from Charles Haddon Spurgeon on pastoral prayer. Here’s just one:
We may speak boldly with God, but still he is in heaven and we are upon earth, and we are to avoid presumption.

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Codex Sinaiticus now online

Perhaps this is old news to some, but images of the entire Codex Sinaiticus are now available on-line, thanks to the work of the British Library, Leipzig University Library, St. Catherine’s Monastery, and the National Library of Russia (St. Petersburg).

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Way to be born, John Calvin

Happy 500th, John Calvin. If it was not for you, all evangelicals (and especially the FBFI) would be perfectly united.
(We’re supposed to have fun with birthdays, right?)
To show my real gratitude for the Genevan (I thank God for him), you can peruse some previous posts:
How I became a “Calvinist” (and it wasn’t because [...]

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“Their amusements bore them . . . their devices for saving time have banished leisure from their country.”

In C. S. Lewis’s Pilgrim’s Regress, a character who serves as a Guide tells the characters John and Vertue of a modern-like country. This quote may be a bit confusing, especially at first, since I’m pulling it out of the midst of a specific context (what happens when people do that with the Bible?), but [...]

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George Whitefield on baby dedications (err…infant baptisms)

When the itinerant preacher George Whitefield came to America in 1740, he believed that the religion in Boston was lethargic. He had this to say:
Boston is a large, populous place, and very wealthy. It has the form of religion kept up, but has lost much of its power. I have not heard of any remarkable [...]

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He “abhorred moderation in religion”

Michael J. McClymond observes this about Jonathan Edwards:
“Edwards abhorred moderation in religion. In an early entry in the Miscellanies, he went so far as to say that a saint would be ‘no less useful even in this world’ if his devotion were ‘to keep him all his lifetime in an ecstasy.’ The earlier examination of [...]

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