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.

Saturday, February 03, 2018

Word Magazine 91: 2 Peter 3:10

Note: I recorded and posted today Word Magazine 91: 2 Peter 3:10 ( listen here ). In this episode I give an overview of textual d...

Friday, February 02, 2018

The Vision: How knoweth this man letters?

Image: William Carey baptizes Krishna Pal, the first Indian convert to the faith. Note: Devotion taken from last Sunday's ser...

Thursday, February 01, 2018

Augustine on Scripture like a Firmament Spread Over Us

In Book XIII, Chapter XV on his Confessions , Augustine meditates on the nature and role of Scripture for believers. He begins wit...

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Augustine on God's Eternality and Time

In Book XI of the Confessions , Augustine meditates on the eternality of God and his relation to time. He answers skeptics who scornfu...

Monday, January 29, 2018

Christianity in the slave culture of ancient Rome

Image: Roman era mosaic from Tunisia, depicting slaves, c. AD second century I’ve been reading aloud William Stearns Davis’ A Day ...

Friday, January 26, 2018

The Vision (1.26.18): The World's Hatred of Christ

Note: Devotion taken from last Sunday's sermon on John 7:1-13. John 7:7: The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because...

Thursday, January 25, 2018

WM 90: Revew: The Sin of Certainty by Peter Enns

I just posted WM 90: Review: The Sin of Certainty by Peter Enns ( find it here ). This is an audio version of a review I’ve writ...

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Augustine on Ambrose's Practice of Pastoral Care

In the last post , I noted Augustine’s high esteem for Ambrose, expressed in his Confessions , Book V, Chapter XIII. He returns to...

Monday, January 22, 2018

Augustine on Ambrose: Friendly and Eloquent

In his Confessions , Augustine describes how, as a young man, he bounced from Carthage to Rome to Milan, picking up work teaching rh...

Saturday, January 20, 2018

WM 89: Review: White and Kruger on Canon and Text @ G3

I just posted WM 89: Review: White and Kruger on Canon and Text @ G3 ( listen here ). In this episode I offer some ex tempore com...

Friday, January 19, 2018

The Vision (1.19.18): Lord, to whom shall we go?

Note: Devotion taken from last Sunday's sermon on John 6:59-71. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked...

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