Pedro Miranda

Un lector Apasionado...Jesucristo es mi Señor.

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD August 10, 1886:
Joseph M. Scriven, Irish Plymouth Brethren hymnwriter, died. He spent much of his life performing menial work for the destitute, and both of his engagements ended with the sudden deaths of his fiancées. Nonetheless, he wrote the beloved and uplifting hymn “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.”

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD August 1, 1834:
Death of missionary Robert Morrison at age 52. The first English Protestant missionary to China, he arrived in 1807 and spent nearly three decades laboring under difficult conditions. He translated the Bible into Chinese, produced a Chinese grammar, founded an Anglo-Chinese college, and edited a six-volume Chinese dictionary.

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD July 29, 1921:
Death of Herman Bavinck, Dutch Reformed theologian and churchman. A leading scholar in the Calvinist tradition alongside Abraham Kuyper and B. B. Warfield, he is best known for his monumental four-volume work Reformed Dogmatics (1895–1901). His careful, comprehensive theology continues to influence Reformed thought today.

[Ben Virgo @RememberLondon]

It is the comprehensive compendium of the character of true Christians, that "they are walking by faith, and not by sight."
- William Wilberforce

[Puritan Gold @PuritanGold]

A throne without the gospel is but the devil’s dungeon.

Wealth without the gospel is fuel for hell.

Advancement without the gospel, is but a going high to have the greater fall.

—John Owen, Complete Works, 18:154

[☧ Today in Christian History @HistoricalRook]

#OTD July 28, 1881:
Birth of J. Gresham Machen, American Presbyterian theologian who taught at Princeton Seminary and later founded Westminster Theological Seminary. He is best known as the author of Christianity and Liberalism (1923), a powerful defense of historic Christian orthodoxy against theological liberalism.

[Ben Virgo @RememberLondon]

Today would have been the 100th birthday of J I Packer.
We went to Trafalgar Square to talk about his great work, Knowing God (@IVPbookcentre ).

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

Theological triage allows for both genuine unity & genuine conviction.

[Brandon Smith @brandon_d_smith]

Craig Blaising's essay in the latest JETS, "The Bible and the Nicene Creed," is a must read.

On the one hand, it's really just a summary of the fourth-century debate(s). On the other hand, it uniquely draws deeply from the historical sources rather than merely systematizing ideas.

I've said often that I wish Blaising had been willing/able to do more patristics work over the years. His dissertation on Athanasius is excellent—especially for its time—and he is one of the few evangelical scholars who knows the sources as well as anyone.

Take up and read!

https://t.co/kLscRTMxbh

[Reformed1563 @Heidel_bro1563]

“This is what we should seek in the whole of Scripture: truly to know Jesus Christ, and the infinite riches in Him offered.”

-John Calvin

[Reformed1563 @Heidel_bro1563]

“And thus we utterly damn the vanity of those that affirm sacraments to be nothing else but naked and bare signs. No, we assuredly believe that by Baptism we are ingrafted in Christ Jesus to be made partakers of his justice, by which our sins are covered and remitted; and also, that in the Supper, rightly used, Christ Jesus is so joined with us, that he becomes the very nourishment and food of our souls.”

-The Scots Confession, Ch. 21- ‘The Sacraments.’

[Reformed1563 @Heidel_bro1563]

“It is because man has an inadequate conception of sin that he has an
inadequate conception of the grace of God.”

-Martyn Lloyd-Jones

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

From one man called out of Ur, God built a nation. Abraham's family tree produced the twelve tribes of Israel, and from the tribe of Judah came the line that led to Christ. Ishmael, Esau, Moab, and Ammon also appear here. The genealogy of Abraham shaped the entire ancient Near East.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

Every element of the High Priest's garments was prescribed by God in Exodus 28. The breastplate carried the names of the twelve tribes over his heart. The turban bore the words "Holy to the Lord." He did not dress to impress. He dressed to represent. Hebrews 4 tells us who our High Priest is now.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

Every line in this chart represents a cross-reference between any two books of the Bible. The New Testament does not replace the Old. It is saturated with it. Revelation alone contains over 800 allusions to the Old Testament. Scripture is its own best commentary.

[Reformed1563 @Heidel_bro1563]

“Heaven must be in you before you can be in heaven.”

-George Swinnock

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

Creation to Christ in one chart. The entire Old Testament storyline moves through patriarchs, exodus, conquest, kings, division, exile, and return, and every thread converges on Jesus of Nazareth. The Old Testament is not background material. It is the first act of one story.

[Reformed1563 @Heidel_bro1563]

“When I feel anxious about sin and hell, I remind myself that when I have Christ, I have all that is necessary.”

-Martin Luther

[Reformed1563 @Heidel_bro1563]

"No one knows the one-hundredth part of the sin that clings to his soul."

-John Calvin