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.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

More takes on the life of Judson

I found and listened to a few more biographical messages and resources on the life of Adnoniram Judson this week. John Piper gives his take...

Monday, February 22, 2010

Judson dedicates his translation

In the afternoon service at CRBC yesterday I gave a biographical message on the life of missionary pioneer Adoniram Judson. One of the qu...

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Reverence in Worship

The teaching of the Reformed confessions suggests a simple test for distinguishing between genuine and counterfeit joy in worship: Is it ac...

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Video of the Week: Psalter Informercial

Looks like some RPC young folk had a little too much time on their hands... But they did make a pretty funny "infomercial":

Sermon of the Week: J. B. Jeter on "The Obligations of Baptists to their Distinctive Principles"

Jeremiah Bell Jeter (1802-1880) was a Virginia Baptist pastor, theologian, editor, and denominational statesman. He was a "gentleman...

Monday, February 15, 2010

Matthew Henry: A Resurrection of Names

I preached a message yesterday titled "Confessing Christ" from Matthew 10:24-33. I love Matthew Henry's comments on v. 26 (...

"Worship Local" article on Reformation Baptist Fellowship Blog

My recent article "Worship Local" has been posted on the Reformation Baptist Fellowship blog. You can read my post here . JTR

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Thomas Watson: Eight ways that temptation works for good

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28)...

Thursday, February 04, 2010

Geneva Notes on Matthew 10:16-17

Sunday before last I preached on Matthew 10:16-23 . The Geneva Bible has some great comments on vv. 16-17: On 10:16 (“Behold I send you as...

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

"After suffering as a Christian in China..."

My friend Pastor Beine He of the Chinese Christian Church of Charlottesville had a feature article titled "After suffering as a Christi...

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

The most thrilling story

When famed missionary Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) came home to New England in 1845-46 after many years spent in pioneer labors Burma, he f...

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Sermon of the Week: "Old School" Church Planting Conference

Just before Christmas, I had the opportunity to visit and worship at Providence PCA Church in Fayettville, NC. They hosted a church plantin...

Friday, January 15, 2010

Spurgeon on the Call to Ministry

If a man be truly called of God to the ministry, I will defy him to withhold himself from it. A man who has really within him the inspira...

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Prayer for Haiti

News is breaking today about the devastating earthquake Tuesday in the impoverished nation of Haiti. Just yesterday I was talking with a ...

Thursday, January 07, 2010

Judson's Proposal

Adoniram Judson wrote the following letter to John Hasseltine in 1810 asking for his twenty year old daughter Ann “Nancy” Hasseltine’s han...

Monday, January 04, 2010

Morrison: I expect God will

Robert Morrison, pioneer missionary to China and the first to translate the Bible into Chinese, was once asked by a skeptic, "And so,...

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Top Ten Books of 2009

Here are the top ten books I read in 2009 (in no particular order; you can compare my 2008 list here ): 1. Michael Bushell, The Songs of ...

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Calvin on Church Government: Part Sixteen

Note: This is the sixteenth and final entry in our series from Calvin's Institutes of church government and offices. It remains to ...

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Sermon of the Week: Henry Scougal "On the Nativity of our Savior"

Should believers celebrate Christmas? This question has long divided Reformed Christians. The continental reformers were more willing to obs...

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Watson's Expanded View of the Fifth Commandment

My wife and I like to tell our children when we review the ten commandments in family devotions that our favorite commandment is the fifth...

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