Thoughts of a Christian Husband, Father, and Pastor
I just wanted to pass along word to those of you (especially those outside the GTA) who haven’t been able to make it out to the Toronto Pastors Fellowship meetings. Our media library contains all the messages (as well as the papers, in pdf format) that have been delivered at our monthly gatherings. There are also [...]
Check out the website of Toronto Baptist Seminary for some nice online resources, including audio messages from D.A. Carson, Michael Haykin, Bill James, and–most recently–Liam Goligher. Dr Goligher has two messages posted: (1) ‘The Emergent Church: Reinventing Liberalism’, and, (2) ‘Preaching the Cross Today.’ Click here to see the list of messages.
In the previous post we saw that the ancient church’s view of a historical phenomenon (namely, the Roman Empire) shifted dramatically within the space of a few generations, on account of their particular experiences with that empire. I would suggest that we have seen something somewhat similar take place over the past few generations up [...]
Looking over my notes today from my early church history course, I noticed something interesting. It’s nothing new or profound, but it caught my attention anyway. The church’s response to the fall of Rome was weird, in many ways. I think it’s necessary to lay some background before we move on. From the founding of [...]
I was quite blessed with the privilege of speaking at this year’s Principal’s Banquet for the Toronto Baptist Seminary. I was to give a ‘student’s perspective, in three minutes or less.’ I was given the task of explaining why I chose to come to TBS, and why I continue to study at TBS. In other [...]
If you’re like me, you can’t help but feel horribly ignorant with regard to much of our Christian heritage. I know a few of the main figures, but very little aside from the biggest names. It has been a wonderful blessing to study this past year or so under Dr Haykin at TBS because he [...]
This past year in my Early Christian Spirituality course at TBS we had a lecture on Basil of Caesarea’s theology of humility. His twentieth homily was full of great theological insight and practical suggestions for how to live with greater humility. One of his suggestions for how to stir up humility is simply to recall [...]
My good friend, Jon Warner, has a post over on his blog that got me thinking. In it, Jon questions the “labels” we live under as a result of “hero worship” in the Christian faith. He argues that even those “great saints” who have gone before us have had fatal flaws in their character which [...]
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