Today was a good Reformation Day. Dr. John MacArthur spoke today here at Southern Seminary for the Mullins Lectures. It can be found here. Dr. MacArthur basically gave a short lesson through the history of the reformation starting with John Huss. His emphasis was on the fact that Christ is the Head of the Church, not the pope and even commenting on the problems of the emerging church and how it bears against that doctrine as well. MacArthur is preaching Wednesday and Thursday at Southern as well.
It is great to know that the Lord continues to give us men like MacArthur, Mohler, Piper, and others (including especially all the profs at Southern Seminary) who continue on the Reformers great love for the supremacy of Christ as shown in Scripture.
Soli Deo Gloria!
“Peace if Possible, Truth at all Cost!” -Martin Luther
Of all the pics that I took on a camping trip to the Red River Gorge two weeks ago I have to say that this is the best. It was perfect with a full moon, camping near a cliff so you can wake up and see the gorge in the morning, cool but not cold, and chatting around a fire while grilling steaks. Can’t get much better than that.
You can also see more pics from the gorge and the Desiring God Conference here.
Check out these overdubbed videos of parts of old Jesus movies, they are hilarious. They were made by Vintage21, which is a Acts 29 Network church in North Carolina.
Well I have decided to become like everyone else at sbtsblogs.net and have a Friday Foto.
This was taken possibly somewhere in Indiana on our way to Minneapolis for the Desiring God Conference via an overnight stay in Chi Town where we ate at Gino’s East and watched as the Auburn Tigers finished unscathed luckily from the game versus South Carolina.
On another pic that didn’t come out well we saw a car that said on its rear window “Old/Slow People Keep Right.” Doesn’t make sense to me since by the time they see it he would have already passed them.
Well I am back to Louisville from the Desiring God Conference in Minneapolis on the topic of the Supremacy of Christ in a postmodern world (including the Emergent Church). All of the talks were great though I must admit I will have to relisten to Carson’s talk on John 17 to understand it better. The audio should be available for free download from the Desiring God website in a few days.
Especially in Discoll’s and Piper’s talks there was a distinct emphasis on the need to fight for the essentials of the faith. So during lunch in downtown Minneapolis my friend’s and I were discussing the Emergent Church and its difference with Orthodox Christianity which boiled down to this:
Orthodox Christianity is humble before God and bold before men; whereas the Emergent Church is bold before God and humble before men.
Meaning that Orthodox Christianity accepts God’s demands and communicates those demands to men without compromise while the Emergent Church accepts man’s demands and tells those demands to God over not mattering that they go against Scripture.
