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I wanted to give everyone an update about things with me as I come back from a few week break. I will be adding another school icon with the Southern one here shortly. The reason being is that I am going to become certified in medical coding along with taking a few classes at Southern. (If you want to know what a medical coder is you can go here.) So with the coding certificate I can get the job of being a medical coder. The reasons for taking the time to get a stable job are three: 1. provide for Southern, 2. provide for any future family, and 3. provide for bi-vocational ministry. I have been told multiple times that this is a wise route to take and I am excited to see what the Lord has in store for me.
Sorry about not getting any new posts out. I have been busy with other things outside of blogging and been studying into the divorce and remarriage issue with a particular focus on the Permanence position. Hopefully I will get some of my study on the latter out for everyone while getting back to making posts.
Due to my different schedule this semester my posting was off for today. I don’t know about tomorrow or the day after either. But I will get my schedule hammered out soon enough and get back to regular posting.
And, for a warning, since it is another school semester my blog posting may slow down. Hopefully it will not slow down very much. But school alway stake priority over blogging.
Thanks readers!
My power cord has return! I should be back up and posting here soon.
I forgot my laptop computer power-cable back in Knoxville. So I have about a 70% charge until it is shipped to me. Because of that posting is either going to be few or nothing till it comes.
I am hoping to attend the lectures by Dr. Simon Gathercole, hosted at Campbellsville University, the 18th of this month. Dr. Gathercole is a very respected scholar from the University of Cambridge. The subject of his lectures will be the atonement. If anyone is interested in coming a flyer of the event can be found here.
To find out more about Dr. Gathercole, Andy Naselli did an interview with him on the gospel of Judas over at Between Two Worlds.
HT: Denny Burk
The audio is up from the Andrew Fuller Conference which I attended about a month ago. Sadly I was not able to attend all the lectures due to school classes happening at the same time. But what I did hear was really good.
The conference is both historical and denominational in its topics. All Andrew Fuller Conferences discuss how Baptists have understood different doctrinal positions throughout history. This year the topic was on Baptists and the cross, how Baptists have historically understood and preached the substitutionary death of Jesus.
I was able to listen to the three beginning Plenary Sessions and the sixth Plenary Session. The first two are mainly theological in their dealings. Schreiner deals with texts in the Pastoral and Petrine epistles that refer to the extent of the atonement. Wellum talks about a over arching view of the Bible that one must have to rightly view atonement. Both are very beneficial. The last two are historical overviews. They are beneficial as well if you want a better grasp of history.
Here is the list of lectures in full. Hopefully you will find something of interest among them.
MONDAY| August 30, 2010
9:00 a.m. Plenary Session 1: Tom Schreiner (SBTS)
“The Atonement in the Pastoral Epistles, the Petrine Epistles, and Hebrews”
10:25 a.m. Plenary Session 2: Stephen Wellum (SBTS)
“Baptism and Crucicentrism”
11:45 a.m. Plenary Session 3: David W. Bebbington (Professor of History, University of Stirling)
“British Baptist Crucicentrism from the Eighteenth Century Onwards”
2:30-4:00 p.m. PARALLEL SESSIONS
Group A: 17th Century British Baptists (Chair: Steve Weaver)
- Roger Duke, “The Blood in the Lesser Known Writings of John Bunyan”
- Ryan West, “Christopher Blackwood—Unpopular Dissent and the Cross in Cromwellian Ireland”
- Steve Weaver, “‘A Patient Wearing of Christ’s Cross’: Hercules Collins and a Baptist Theology of Persecution”
Group B: 18th Century Baptists (Chair: Paul Brewster)
- Allen Mickle, “ ‘Binding his Ass’s Colt to the Choice Vine’: John Gill (1697-1771), Isaiah 53, and the Atonement”
- Josh Carmichael, “Anne Steele on the Atonement”
- Peter Beck, “An Early Baptist in the Land of the Free: Samuel Stillman, the Depravity of Man and the Freedom of the Cross”
Group C: 19th Century Baptists (Chair: Jeff Robinson)
- John Gill, “Alexander Carson on the Cross”
- Cody McNutt, “Condescension and Substitution: Christ’s Cross in the Preaching of Robert Hall, Jr.”
- Chris Chun, “Andrew Fuller on the Atonement: Was Fuller’s approach nearer to that of Jonathan Edwards or the Younger?”
Group D: Theological Reflections (Chair: Joe Harrod)
- David Schrock, “Baptists, the New Covenant, and the Efficacy of the Atonement”
- David Pitman, “Baptists and the Iconography of the Cross: An Historical and Theological Survey”
- Jason Duesing, “Humphreys/Patterson—1987: A Southern Baptist Debate on the Atonement”
7:00 p.m. “Baptists and the Cross: A Hymnfest” (Nathan Platt)
8:00 p.m. Plenary Session 4: Glendon Thompson (President, Toronto Baptist Seminary)
“Preaching the Cross”
TUESDAY| August 31, 2010
8:30 a.m. Plenary Session 5: Maurice Dowling (Professor of Church History, Irish Baptist College, Queens University)
“Spurgeon and the Cross”
11:30 a.m. Plenary Session 6: James Fuller (Professor of History, University of Indianapolis)
“19th Century Southern Baptists and the Cross”
2:30-3:40 p.m. Plenary Session 7: Danny Akin (SEBTS)
“The Cross and Pastoral Ministry”
4:00-5:00 p.m. Special LifeWay Booksigning Event: “Book Discussion with Michael Haykin and David Bebbington”
This is Rosalynn Robb talking about her adoption and what she has enjoyed about the book, Adopted for Life.
Even through her particular story is such a physical picture of the gospel, making us adopted sons and daughters, and thus beneficial on those regards. I have particular interest in posting this because I have the blessing of knowing her personally. Not only does her story proclaim the gospel, her life proclaims it as well. So enjoy the short video and go give her blog a check as well.
Note on the book: I have not read it. But I have only heard good things about it.
My church recently revamped its website. It looks really good.
And my pastor’s have started a blog on the site which should be a benefit to all those who read it. They started out with a three set Q&A on small groups: Care-group Q&A: One, Two, and Three.
