Doctrine for Life
I feel very strongly about the need for Christians to restore the family altar in the home with the father leading family worship each day. Here is a one minute clip from my recent address on this subject at the Foundations Conference in South Carolina two weeks ago.
https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=122721859505234
Last night we had another wonderful couple from our church get married—Alex Engelsma and Grace Vroegindewey (photo 1). My colleague, Dr. Kuivenhoven, gave a beautiful message on abiding in Christ’s love from John 15:9. Afterward they were sent off surrounded by all the guests holding sparklers—including the Queen and me (photo 2).
Please pray that Alex and Grace will have a life-long Christ-centered, Word-based, God-glorifying marriage of genuine love.
In this Apple Podcast, Kevin DeYoung and Justin Taylor interview me about the theological and historical world of the Puritans in which I provide reading suggestions for both beginners and experts. I also talk about improving your preaching through the use of expository and experiential content.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-and-books-and-everything/id1526483896?i=1000546080337
In this interview with Zach McCulley of the New Books In Christian Studies podcast, I discuss the release of Reformed Systematic Theology, Volume 3: Spirit and Salvation.
https://newbooksnetwork.com/reformed-systematic-theology-volume-3
Just had an enjoyable time meeting and holding the precious new baby girl (named Rachel) of one of our Brazilian theological students (the third child of Israel and Larissa—on the right). I also enjoyed meeting Israel’s mother, who as a pastor’s wife in Brazil, often speaks at women’s conferences, and Israel’s brother, who also feels called to ministry (on the left). Twenty minutes after Israel completed this semester’s worth of work a few weeks ago, his wife went into labor and their little Rachel was soon born—God’s amazing timing!
I feel very strongly about the need for Christians to restore the family altar in the home with the father leading family worship each day. Here is a one minute clip from my recent address on this subject at the Foundations Conference in South Carolina ten days ago.
https://www.sermonaudio.com/playpopupvideo.asp?SID=122721857402128
Our family wishes you and your family a blessed day in which Christ may consciously and experientially be your Savior, Lord, and Treasure—the altogether lovely One and the Chief among ten thousand, so that you and your loved ones may confess in truth, “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief” (1 Timothy 1:15).
I wish you and yours every blessing in Immanuel, born in Bethlehem, to save sinners—even such as we are. May we experience in these days the essence of what B. B. Warfield wrote: “The glory of the incarnation is that it presents to our adoring gaze not a humanized God or a deified man, but a true God-man—one who is all that God is and at the same time all that man is [yet without sin]: one on whose almighty arm we can rest, and to whose human sympathy we can appeal.”
It’s hard for me to put into words how excited I am about the two books I am holding here, both of which are new titles that arrived today, printed by Reformation Heritage Books.
For many years, I have wanted to reprint Hugh Binning’s “Works.” Binning was a 17th-century Scotsman who pastored in Glasgow. He died at the age of 26 from tuberculosis, but what a burning and shining light he was as a young minister! His 40 sermons on Romans 8:1-15 and his 28 sermons on fellowship with God from 1 John 1:1—2:3 are worth their weight in gold. Here is biblical, doctrinal, experiential, and practical preaching at its best. This book is a feast for the mind and the soul.
https://www.heritagebooks.org/products/the-works-of-hugh-binning.htm
The second book, “A Discovery of Glorious Love,” is by John Durant (1620-1689), a popular Puritan preacher in England whose writings masterfully blend good theology and warm piety. This is the first time that this heart-warming book has been set in modern typeface and reprinted since the 17th century! It beautifully unpacks Christ’s transcendent love to believers, and stresses that His love is our strongest comfort in times of affliction.
https://www.heritagebooks.org/products/a-discovery-of-glorious-love-durant.html
