Spiritual formation and the modern seminary
One of the classic introductions to theological studies is B.B. Warfield’s The Religious Life of Theological Students, where his primary concern is to argue for the necessity of personal piety in the...
View ArticleThe seminary and piety: a surrejoinder
If we define a faithful minister of the Word along the lines of Acts 6, a man devoted to the Word and prayer, it seems to me that in the twentieth century faithful orthodox seminaries have done fairly...
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Ian Clary on “Church History on the Ground”
Dr. Haykin recently collaborated with Ian Clary on a history of the 125-year-old Hughson Street Baptist Church in Hamilton, Ontario, “Rivers of Living Water”: Celebrating 125 Years of Hughson Street...
View ArticlePolitics and Christianity: oxymoronic?
I am a firm believer in the fact that Christians should be involved in the political realm. Not the Church per se, but individual believers. One of the reasons Christian shun this realm—though do they...
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Celebrating Andrew Fuller’s 259th Birthday
L to R: Dr. Cody McNutt, Kody Gibson, Dustin Bruce, Dr. Michael Haykin, Joe Harrod, Dustin Benge, Steve Weaver This was a first for the Walmart cake decorator! Today is Andrew Fuller’s 259th birthday....
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After the death of Andrew Fuller in 1815, one of his friends, Robert Hall, Jr., the son of Fuller’s mentor, the elder Robert Hall, was dining with a John Greene not far from the place of Fuller’s birth...
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Free Andrew Fuller Biographies Available Online
By Nathan Finn For those interested in reading more about the life of Andrew Fuller, numerous biographies are available online for free. Several of these are nineteenth-century works available through...
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When a Friend Dies: A Funeral Sermon for Andrew Fuller
By Dustin Benge The day before his forty-second birthday, May 21, 1815, Joseph Ivimey, arrived to preach his usual Sunday sermon at the Baptist church at Eagle Street, London. This Lord’s day at Eagle...
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Some memories of John Codman about Andrew Fuller
By Michael A.G. Haykin John Codman (1782–1847) was an American Congregationalist minister who graduated from Harvard in 1802. His grandfather, also John Codman (1719–1792), was converted under and...
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The poor estate of English roads in the 18th & early 19th centuries
In an early nineteenth-century French gazetteer, there is an interesting comment on the state of the roads in London: “Les rues de Londres sont mal pavées; les grandes routes ne le sont point du tout”...
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“Heart-Piercing Conviction” in Logan County, Kentucky
By Dustin W. Benge Scene from an American Camp Meeting James M’Gready (1763–1817) was born in Pennsylvania and later settled in North Carolina with his father. After theological training for ministry,...
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Fuller’s Three Classes of Religious Dissenters
By Dustin Bruce Often when considering the English Reformation, we distinguish only between those who remained within the newly formed Church of England and those who dissented from it. In “A Brief...
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A Family History of Sabbatarianism
By Dustin Bruce Hearing bits of anecdotal family history is one of the most interesting parts of holiday gatherings. When aspects of family history intersect with theological concepts, I find them even...
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Overlooking Scottish Christianity
By Michael A.G. Haykin Today I picked up a copy of T.M. Devine’s Scotland’s Empire: The Origins of the Global Diaspora (Penguin, 2004): it is an excellent work. Noticed an interesting oversight near...
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Two new works on Covenant Theology in its Baptist expression
By Jeff Robinson One of the theological questions I have been asked most often during my first 24 months as pastor has been some version of this query: Do Baptists believe Covenant Theology or is that...
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Should Baptists Care About Social Concerns? William Ward Believed So (PART ONE)
By J. Ryan West A growing conversation has emerged within Baptist life surrounding the believer’s responsibility concerning the poor, the neglected, and other social issues. In fact, Tuesday was set...
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Should Baptists Care About Social Concerns? William Ward Believed So (PART TWO)
By J. Ryan West As shown yesterday, Ward was concerned deeply to see significant changes regarding social issues in India. Successful social action would not, however, come without the power of...
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The Recruiting Pastor
By Ryan Patrick Hoselton Christians implore the help of their pastor for a range of reasons—at a range of hours of the night. I know this not because I’m a pastor but because I’m a Christian. But how...
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The Eye of True Wisdom
By Evan D. Burns In a sermon on Proverbs 14:8, Andrew Fuller looked long and hard at the virtue of godly wisdom. He extracted many helpful principles from this verse, and one of the most insightful...
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When Research Interests Collide
By Dustin Bruce Every historian knows the rare joy of finding an unsuspected link to his or her primary research interest when engaging in a secondary research project. This recently happened to me as...
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