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“A Most Blessed Exercise”: Andrew Fuller and Prayer

Andrew Fuller (1754–1825) once wrote, “A life of faith will ever be a life of prayer.”[1] Central within the pastoral framework of the eighteenth century Calvinistic Baptists was dependence upon the Holy Spirit and prayer as the primary means of Christian growth. Fuller’s friend, John Ryland, Jr. (1753–1825), concurred as he reflected...

February 14, 2020

By Dustin W. Benge

Leland Ryken’s Four Principles for Reading Literature

My purpose in the following remarks, is to demonstrate how a Christian can read literature to best effect. Two valid approaches to this objective exist. If I were talking to students in my classes, I would adopt a prescriptive approach and provide guidelines for reading Christianly. For this blog...

February 10, 2020

By Leland Ryken

The Glory of the Cross

Trying to capture all that our Lord Jesus achieved in his glorious work is difficult. John Calvin sought to grasp its comprehensive nature by the munus triplex—Christ’s threefold office as our new covenant head and mediator—prophet, priest, and king. What Calvin sought to avoid was reductionism, the “cardinal sin” of...

February 3, 2020

By Stephen J. Wellum