C.J. Mahaney interviews Ligon Duncan: in three parts. (This is part 1, click three for part 2, parts for part 3)
Meet J. Ligon Duncan III.
You guessed it, Dr. Duncan is also scary smart—a graduate of Furman University, Covenant Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and the University of Edinburgh (Ph.D.).
Since 1996 Ligon has served as the Senior Minister [...]
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People You Should Get to Know: Ligon Duncan
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged People You Should Get to Know on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
People You Should Get to Know: Blaise Pascal
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Pascal, People You Should Get to Know on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Blaise Pascal (by Douglas Groothuis)
Blaise Pascal was many things – a theological controversialist, a superb French stylist, an inventor, a scientist, and a mathematician. But he is most known for being a philosopher of the heart. ‘The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing; we know this in countless ways,’ he wrote in Pensées [...]
People You Should Get to Know: Guido de Bres
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged People You Should Get to Know on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Guido de Bres
Guido de Bres was born in 1522 in Mons, on the border between France and the part of the Lowlands which is now Belgium. He was the fourth child in a family of glass painters. As a young man he was apprenticed to a stain glass artist, but his life’s work was not [...]
People You Should Get to Know: Andrew Fuller
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged People You Should Get to Know on March 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Andrew Fuller
Michael Haykin, professor of church history at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writes …
Near the beginning of the funeral sermon that John Ryland, Jr. (1753-1825) preached for Andrew Fuller in 1815, Ryland described Fuller as “perhaps the most judicious and able theological writer that ever belonged to our [i.e. the Calvinistic Baptist] denomination.” Although [...]
People You Should to Get to Know (New): Thomas Watson
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Church History, People You Should Get to Know, Puritans on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THOMAS WATSON (c.1620-1686)
All of Thomas Watson’s writings and sermons are replete with sound doctrine, practical wisdom, and heart-searching application. His profound spirituality, gripping remarks, practical illustrations, and beauty of expression make him one of the most irresistible of the Puritans.
He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was noted for remarkably hard study. [...]
