On October 14 - 15, 2011 Greenwood Avenue Baptist Church will be hosting a conference on the person and work of the Holy Spirit. Speakers include Dr. Kirk Wellum and our own Dr. Michael Haykin. SSMI will be providing the resources and the book room that weekend. To all our friends in the North Bay area be sure to drop by and say hello. Below is the link and registration information.
For informaiion on the Vancouver Regional Conference
Topic: What Does it Mean to be Human?
Location: Hillside Church of London 250 Commissioners Road East, London, Ontario
Speakers:
Joseph Pipa
Michael Haykin
Heinz Dschankilic
Schedule:
Saturday November 12, 2011
Registration: 8:00 AM
Session 1: 9:00 AM - Genesis 1-3 - Fact or Fiction? - Heinz Dschankilic
Break
Session 2: 10:45 AM - Image Bearing: What Does it Mean to be Human? - Joseph Pipa
Lunch
Session 3: 1:30 PM - Tainted Fruit: What is Death? - Joseph Pipa
Break
Session 4: 3:00 PM - Humanity’s Relationship to Creation - Michael Haykin
Session 5: 4:00 PM - The Glorious Hope - Humanity in the Resurrection - Joseph Pipa
To Register Click Here
One of the illegitimate criticisms of Calvinistic Doctrine in general Reformed Churches in particular is that they hold to a cold fatalism with respect to the state of the lost. Granted, there have been failures on the part of Calvinistic churches to seriously consider our Lord’s command to go into the all the world making disciples and baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Spirit. However, the failure to evangelize is largely due to disobedience and complacency rather than a deficiency in the Biblical doctrine. In fact, when one looks at the history of Revivals and evangelism, one comes to the striking realization that many of the deepest and most effective revivals have come under the preaching of Calvinistic or Reformed ministers. The entire way we do missions today is due to Calvinistic ministers like Andrew Fuller and William Carey, the founders of the Modern Mission Movement.
We hope to recapture some of the grand and glorious teachings of Scripture this Fall as we examine once again the Bible’s teaching on this very needful topic. Our prayer is that you might come away excited and motivated to take the Gospel to your home, your church, your workplace and where ever the Lord directs your steps.
Our brochure is attached in this link. Feel free to pass it on to your friends and congregations.
In today’s podcast of After Darkness Light, Heinz Dschankilic and Roger Bergs begin a multi – part discussion on the role of music in the Life of the local church. Today’s question – What role does music play in the worship service?
Prayer, its power or the lack of it, gives testimony to the vitality and reality of the Christian’s faith. “Prayer,” Jonathan Edwards announced, “is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.” The Christian has faith. The Christian prays. Otherwise, he is no Christian at all.
I am grateful for my fellow blogger Fred Zaspel’s reflections on Harold Camping’s mistaken prediction that Jesus would return on May 21, 2011. One of my first memories as a new Christian was the talk surrounding Camping’s prediction that Jesus would return in October, 1994. He didn’t then. He didn’t now.
The doctrines of justification and sanctification are both necessary components of the Christian faith. There is no such thing as a justified but unsanctified sinner and no such thing as a sanctified but unjustified sinner. Both are essential. There is, however, a tendency in the church to confuse the doctrines, to combine the doctrines, and to fail to recognize the distinction between the two. Justification is concerned with Christ’s work for the sinner as the ground of acceptance with our holy God. Sanctification is the work of the Spirit in the justified sinner whereby he is conformed more and more into the image of the Lord Jesus.
The death of a saint is an event mixed in a peculiar blend of joy and sorrow. Joy in the knowledge that when one closes his or her eyes on planet earth for the last time, ones eyes instantly open in the presence of our most glorious Risen Savior. Sorrow in that our hearts are broken at being deprived of the love and fellowship of a cherished friend in Christ. Such are the feelings going through my mind this day as I reflect upon the note on my desk informing me of the departure of Miriam Weisz.
She was, and her husband still is a devout follower of Jesus and dedicated to the work of spreading the Gospel in Trout Creek, Ontario. I have been royally entertained in their home those times I had the privilege of preaching in their home church.
Nandor, our prayers are with you and the children. She will be missed.
Heinz Dschankilic and Michael Haykin pay tribute to one of the greatest literary achievements in the English language.