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.

Monday, March 31, 2008

No dogma, no fruits!

Here's another snippet from J. C. Ryle's sermon "Wants of the Times" in Holiness in which he encourages believers to hol...

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Three Great Facts

In the sermon "Needs of the Times" printed in his spiritual classic Holiness , J. C. Ryle addresses the "three great facts...

The Rock Creek 30?

Steve Hills sent me this link to a "cutting edge" seeker church in Arkansas that has managed to get their services down to a 30 mi...

Exposition of Jude: Part 8 of 25

Photo: A pensive Calvin. This series is an occasional, verse by verse, exposition of the book of Jude. An archive of past articles are avai...

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

The Work of One Who Lives

And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! (1 Corinthians 15:17). How do we know that Jesus is truly ris...

Monday, March 17, 2008

"Of course God will forgive me; that's his job."

Of course God will forgive me; that's his job. The above quote is attributed to German poet and journalist Heinriche Heine (1797-1856). ...

"O Cross most welcomed and longed for!"

In the classic work of the Protestant Reformation in England, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, one finds Jerome’s account of the death of the apostl...

The Gospel in Isaiah 53

Yesterday morning's message at JPBC was on the "Suffering Servant" of Isaiah 53. I noted that some call this passage the fifth...

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Who first took the gospel to China?

My daughter Hannah is working on a report on China and she asked me, "Who was the first missionary to China?" When she had looked ...

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Jesus on Prayer

In last Sunday morning’s message, we spent some time meditating on Mark 6:46: "And when He had sent them away, He departed to the mount...

Broadway Again

Baptist Press has two more articles on conflict at Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth where the Pastor survived a vote for dismissal (rea...

Social gospel on display at U-Hall

The liberal social gospel is alive and well in C-ville. Last night the group called "IMPACT" got c. 1,900 people into University ...

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Sermon of the Week: Joel Beeke on Commitment to the Local Church

Sermon of the Week: Joel Beeke, "Commitment to the Local Church." I listened to this message the other day from Joel Beeke and was...

Fuller on the study of Revelation

I started my Wednesday evening expositions of Revelation at JPBC last night. Among other things, I have been reading Andrew Fuller's di...

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

What Spurgeon Really Said

Steve Hills tipped me off to the latest work of N. T. Wright. Read about it here . JTR

A Faith to Confess

Note: We started a new Sunday evening series last Sunday on "A Faith to Confess" using the Baptist Faith and Message (2000) as a g...

Monday, March 03, 2008

The uncertainty of feelings

In Jesus is Victor , Corrie Ten Boom offers this brief verse: Feelings come and feelings go And feelings are deceiving. My warrant is the Wo...

Sunday, March 02, 2008

"JPBC Blues"

Note: Ben Parziale "sang" this song about his JPBC internship at the Valentine's Banquet (to the tune Folsom Prison Blues). ...

Saturday, March 01, 2008

Book Review: Alister McGrath's "Dawkins' God"

Alister McGrath, Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005): 202 pp. This book is an examinat...

Update on Broadway Directory Flap

Conflict continues at moderate-liberal Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas over the inclusion of homosexual couples in the church d...

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