stylos

Stylos is the blog of Jeff Riddle, a Reformed Baptist Pastor in North Garden, Virginia. The title "Stylos" is the Greek word for pillar. In 1 Timothy 3:15 Paul urges his readers to consider "how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar (stylos) and ground of the truth." Image (left side): Decorative urn with title for the book of Acts in Codex Alexandrinus.

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Here We Go Again: The "Camp Quest" Flyer Flap

A reporter from the Charlottesville weekly The Hook called yesterday to get my reaction to the latest flap over the Albemarle County school...

New Blog: For the Brothers

JPBC's Steve Belcher has entered the blogosphere. You can read his thoughts here . Steve has based his blog name on 1 John 3:14 and de...

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Spring 2007 Evangelical Forum Newsletter posted

The Spring 2007 issue of the Evangelical Forum Newsletter has been posted online ( here ). Bonnie will be sending out the hard copy editio...

Memorial Day Weekend and Religious Freedom

The past two issues of World Magazine reported the recent arrest and trial of Nguyen Van Dal . This 38 year-old Christian lawyer has been de...

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Baxter on Education

The Puritan Richard Baxter (1615-91) on the attempt to do education apart from a knowledge of God: Nothing can be rightly known, if God be n...

Thursday, May 17, 2007

The Apprentice

As promised at Body Life yesterday evening, here is a photo of JPBC's Sheri States and her pal "the Donald" (along with Sheri...

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

In Memoriam: Jerry Falwell

News is breaking today that Jerry Falwell has died (see the Fox article here ). As the writer of Ecclesiastes said, "For man also does ...

The Crazy Youth Conference Season Approaches

The approach of summer means the coming of evangelical youth conference and camps galore. Our church gets its fair share of promotional flye...

Congratulations to Ben and Vanessa!

JPBC's Ben Parziale and Vanessa Garvey are engaged to be married! Here's a photo Sheri States sent me that was taken at their house ...

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Exposition of Jude: Part 3 of 25

This series is an occasional, verse-by-verse commentary on the book of Jude. Jude 1:3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you con...

Monday, May 07, 2007

Beckwith crosses the Tiber

One breaking story over the weekend was that Francis Beckwith , a philosophy professor at Baylor (who gained his tenure at the moderate Bapt...

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Noblit on Church Discipline

Jeff Noblit is Paul Washer's Pastor at FBC-Muscle Shoals. He also has a ministry called "Anchored in Truth." He has a two pa...

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Call to Worship: The Elephant in the Sanctuary

Below are notes from the Call to Worship last Sunday (4/29) morning: Did you read the article in the Daily Progress this morning? It was ti...

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Socratic Soap

Speaking of Steve Belcher, he brought me a bar of Socratic soap, "The Soap of the Greek Gods," that he picked up on a recent trip ...

Vain Jangling

So, we started this new "tradition" at our Deacons meetings this month of reading through the Pastoral epistles (which is a great ...

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Commentaries on Judges

This Sunday, Lord willing, I will preach from Judges chapter 21 the 22nd and last message in our series on the book of Judges that started b...

Reading Recommendation: "Heidi"

That’s right, I recently read the children’s book Heidi . I am very secure in my masculinity! I kept seeing it on bookstore shelves among cl...

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Job's Complaint Against Violence

Last night at Body Life we were studying the book of Job. I was struck by Job's complaint about violence on the earth in Job 24. Job lam...

How to have a worship service without God getting in the way: Reflections on the Virginia Tech Convocation

I watched part of the convocation at Virginia Tech from Tuesday (April 17) and found much of it to be very spiritually curious (see the vide...

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Prayers for Virginia Tech

The news of what is being called "the massacre at Virginia Tech" last Monday has sent shock waves through the nation. Here in Char...

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