Archive for April, 2010

Love this quote from James Montgomery Boice: “One thing is certain, unless we see visions, dream dreams, and make plans, there will be no great steps forward in the work of the Gospel.” [Romans, Volume 4: A New Humanity (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1995), 1872].

Thanks to Revd. Nathan Eshelman for alerting me to it.

I am thrilled to announce that the conference webpage is now live and registration is now open for the 4th annual conference of the Andrew Fuller Center.  This year’s them is “Baptists and the Cross:  Contemporary and Historical Perspectives.” This promises to be a tremendous conference. Featured speakers include Danny Akin, Glendon Thompson, David Bebbington, Tom Schreiner, Stephen Wellum, Maurice Dowling, and James Fuller.

For more information about the conference, including a podcast interview with Dr. Michael Haykin discussing the conference theme and purpose, please visit:http://events.sbts.edu/andrewfuller.

For the last two weeks have been pondering the fact that seminaries are of the bene esse of the church. They may not belong to the esse, but it is pure folly to think the local church can do the whole task of training men for a learned gospel ministry without the benefit of a seminary education. I am disturbed to think that we have to convince churches of this basic fact. Do these churches know nothing of the last five hundred years of church history?

I recently came across three articles written by Dr. Michael Haykin and published in the Churchman nearly twenty years ago.  The articles are as follows:

• ‘The Oracles of God’: Andrew Fuller and the Scriptures (103/1 1989)

• ‘The Sum of All Good’: John Ryland, Jr. and the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit (103/4 1989)

• ‘Where the Spirit of God is, there is Power’: An Introduction to Spurgeon’s Teaching on the Holy Spirit (106/3 1992)

I hope you enjoy these great resources!

Dr. Michael Haykin recently contributed a guest post on the blog of The Jonathan Edwards Society.  The subject of the post is Jonathan Edwards’ pattern of meditating on Scripture.

Meditating on Scripture

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