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, November 26, 2008

With Thanksgiving for Religious Freedom

Photos: Me in front of a plaque in the Roger Williams National Memorial noting the fact that Providence was established as "a shelter ...

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Campolo's Confused Ethics on Display at BGAV

Photo: Tony Campolo speaking at the very post-modern looking stage at the 2008 BGAV Meeting on the theme, "Who is My Neighbor?" So...

Monday, November 24, 2008

2008 ETS Reflectons: Day Three (Friday, November 21)

Photo: A sign on a gate at Brown University: "Welcome O Undergraduate, Within This 87 gate! All Ent Ring Here Find Hope Endures. The Fo...

2008 ETS Reflections: Day Two (Thursday, November 20)

Photo: The Rhode Island Convention Center. Thursday (November 20): 8:30 am: I went to Douglas Huffman’s (Northwestern College) "Survey ...

2008 ETS Reflections: Day One (Wednesday, November 19)

Photo: The view of Providence from my hotel window. The white steeple is the First Baptist Church. I am back from Providence, RI and the ETS...

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

In Providence for ETS

I am in Providence, Rhode Island for the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society. Providence is an absolutely beautiful and pi...

Monday, November 17, 2008

Pipa on the Privileges of Worship

This challenge is taken from the concluding paragraphs of Joseph Pipa, Jr. "The Purpose of Worship," in The Worship of God: Reform...

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

New "Evangelical Forum Newsletter" Posted

The Summer/Fall 2008 Evangelical Forum Newsletter is now posted online. You can read it here . Included in this issue: Part three in my si...

Sermon(s) of the Week: Robert McCurley on Worship

My friend Rob Stovall recently completed the Fall 2008 Theology Conference at his church--Providence BC in Suffolk. The speaker was Robert ...

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Video Recommendation: "Expelled"

Alert: Videos rarely get recommended on this blog, but here goes: We rented and watched the Ben Stein video "Expelled" the other...

Who are Christ's Lambs?

From Sunday's sermon on John 19:1-17: Peter replies to Jesus' question in v. 15: "Yes, Lord; you know that I love You." An...

Monday, November 10, 2008

The Little Red Hen and Biblical Stewardship

Note: We had our annual stewardship breakfast yesterday at JPBC. This is the devotion I shared from an old Evangel article: Do you know the...

Monday, November 03, 2008

He loved us even when He hated us

In the Institutes , Calvin aprovingly quotes Augustine in describing God's simultaneous love for us and his holy hatred for our sin: Thu...

Friday, October 31, 2008

Sermon of the Week: Paul Washer's "Ten Indictments"

It was October 31, 1517 when Martin Luther posted his "Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences" (better known as ...

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Robert George on Obama's Abortion Extremism

For any pro-life evangelicals out there who have been flirting with the idea of voting for Obama, read this sobering article by Robert Georg...

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The Christian's Joy in Worship

I recently read an article on worship by Terry Johnson ("Worship from the Heart" in The Worship of God [Christian Focus, 2005]: p...

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Routley on Calvin and the tendency of musical worship toward degeneracy

I just read Erik Routley little book Christian Hymns Observed (Prestige, 1982). Chapter 3 is titled "The Crisis of the Reformation....

Jesus: Our Temple

Note: Below is an edited excerpt from last Sunday’s sermon (10/19/08) on Mark 13:1-13: As Jesus went out of the temple, one of his disciples...

Monday, October 20, 2008

The Persecuted Church in India

Photo: A Christian in her burned home in the Indian state of Orissa. I began preaching yesterday on the Olivet Discourse in Mark 13 and g...

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Sermon of the Week: A Young Pastor Reflects on Life and (Near) Death

I ran across this message on sermonaudio and want to commend it to you. Brad Baugham is a young pastor (in his early 30s) in South Carolina...

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