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, March 09, 2017

Aramaic in Mark

One of the distinctive features of the Gospel of Mark is its attribution of several Aramaic phrases to Jesus: Passage i...

Monday, March 06, 2017

Update: Continue to Pray for Pastor Raymond Koh, Abducted in Malaysia

Raymond Koh, the Christian pastor and ministry leader, who was abducted on February 13 has still not been located. This article pu...

Word Magazine # 72: The Ending of Mark as a Canonical Crisis

I recorded today Word Magazine # 72: The Ending of Mark as a Canonical Crisis . In this episode I give an overview of the paper, of th...

Friday, March 03, 2017

The Vision (3.3.17): Solomon becomes a Calvinist

Note: Devotion taken from last Sunday's sermon on Ecclesiastes 8:16--9:6. Ecclesiastes 8:16 When I applied mine heart to know w...

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

2017 Youth Conference Coming!

2017 Virginia Reformed Baptist Youth and Young Adult Conference Friday-Saturday, May 19-20, 2017 (sponsored by Christ Reformed Bap...

Petitions and Prayers for Pastor Raymond Koh in Malaysia

Image: Pastor Raymond Koh I got this note from Malaysia today: I just signed the petition, “Malaysian authorities: Find abducted ...

Friday, February 24, 2017

The Vision (2.24.17): It shall be well with them that fear God

Image: Gathering for worship at CRBC (2.19.17) Note: Devotion taken from sermon on Ecclesiastes 8:12-17 . Ecclesiastes 8:12 ...

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Word Magazine #71: Was Jesus a Rabbi?

Image: Remains of a first century synagogue at Gamla in the Golan Heights. I have posted WM # 71: Was Jesus a Rabbi? In this ep...

Charles Wesley Hymn on Effectual Calling: "Oh! For True Repentance!"

I was browsing through the 1866 Psalms and Hymns and noticed the hymn "Oh! For True Repentance" or "Oh! that I could repen...

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Book Finds: Samuel Miller on ecclesiology and the 1866 Psalms and Hymns

I was out running an errand his afternoon and stopped in at a used bookshop where I was pleased to pick up two reasonably priced volumes. ...

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Trueman: Everyone has a creed

In the introduction to The Creedal Imperative (Crossway, 2012), Carl R. Trueman makes the point that everyone has a creed, including ...

Gordon Clark on anti-intellectualism and disparagement of creeds

Image: Gordon Clark (1902-1985) I ran across this quote in Gordon Clark’s Religion, Reason, and Revelation (Craig Press, 1961): ...

Friday, February 17, 2017

The Vision (2.17.17): The Wise Man is Discerning

Note: Devotion taken from sermon on Ecclesiastes 8:1-11 . Ecclesiastes 8:5b: “a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgemen...

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Word Magazine # 70: Review: Recovery Version Bible

I just recorded and posted WM # 70: Review: Recovery Version Bible . Below are my notes for this episode: The Recovery Version Bib...

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