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, September 10, 2022

NOVA Documentary: A to Z: How Writing Changed the World

Fascinating documentary this week on the technology of writing, from papyrus to the printing press, on the PBS program NOVA. Well worth watc...

Friday, September 09, 2022

WM 251: Jones and Truelove on Why I Preach from the Received Text

The Vision (9.9.22): A sorrowful parting from Christ

Image: Scene from CRBC Labor Day Fellowship (9.5.22) Note: Devotion taken from last Sunday's sermon on Matthew 19:13-22. Matthew 19: ...

Tuesday, September 06, 2022

Jots and Tittles 5: John Owen on Preservation, Satan's Craft, and "Missing Verses"

My Notes: Introduction: In this episode I want to read a section on the divine providential preservation of Scripture from John Owen’s ...

Monday, September 05, 2022

Article: "In Defence of the Traditional Text of Philippians 4:13"

I just posted a pdf of my article "In Defence of the Traditional Text of Philippians 4:13" to my academia.ed page. You can read it...

Saturday, September 03, 2022

WM 250: Allison and Mahlen on Why I Preach from the Received Text

Sermon: The Charge to the Candidate (2 Timothy 4:1-5)

I was blessed and honored to preach this sermon last Sunday (8.28.22) at the elder installation/ordination at Emmanuel RBC (Verona, Va) fo...

Friday, September 02, 2022

The Vision (9.2.22): Quit you like men

Image: Ruins of the temple of Apollos in Corinth, Greece Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong (1 Corinthians 16...

Thursday, September 01, 2022

Jots & Tittles 4: Five Questions about the Majority Text for its Contemporary Evangelical and Reformed Advocates

Introduction: Several internet pundits and critics of the TR, like Dwayne Green and Matthew Everhard, have recently suggested that the p...

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Jots & Tittles 3: Is Confessional Bibliology A "False Teaching"?

Last week someone sent me a link to an online article by Kent Brandenburg titled, “The Who-Is-Nicer or Who-Is-Meaner Argument for the Tex...

Monday, August 29, 2022

CRBC Baptism Video (8.14.22)

Metzger quote on the "tenor" of Paul's theology

Image: Bruce Manning Metzger (1914-2007) Shared this on a twitter thread @Riddle1689 today: I cited this from Bruce Metzger's Textua...

Saturday, August 27, 2022

WM 249: The "new perspective" on Romans 9:5

What is the issue? The issue here is not so much on the text but on how the text should be punctuated and translated. We can pick up ...

Friday, August 26, 2022

The Vision (8.26.22): Have ye not read...

Note: Devotion taken from last Sunday's sermon on Matthew 19:1-12. Matthew 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read,...

Friday, August 19, 2022

WM 248: Interview: Meadows and Sheffield on Why I Preach from the Received Text

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

WM 247: Rejoinder to a "Toxic" Book Review

In WM 245 I mentioned that several folk had asked if I planned to offer a rejoinder to what has been called a “toxic” review of the new bo...

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