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The Greatness of John Calvin
from Burk Parsons Oct 22, 2012 Category: Articles
Calvin is among the greatest men of all time. However, his greatness, as B. B. Warfield recognized, was not in his service to himself but in his surrender to God...
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30 Things to Remember in Seminary
from Burk Parsons Mar 30, 2012 Category: Articles
I offer the following thoughts, in no particular order, to the end that my brothers in seminary and all believers training for ministry at whatever level and for whatever ministry purpose might find some of my comments helpful and reflect on these points and pray that the Holy Spirit would grant them wisdom and humility and that he would guard their souls and instill within them a mind for truth and a heart for God.
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The Wisdom of Listening
from Burk Parsons Mar 09, 2012 Category: Articles
Wise men are difficult to find. We must go to great lengths - we must search high and low in order to find a man who is truly wise. I grieve for my children and my children’s children as I consider the future reality of a world in which wise men cannot be found.
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Generous Gospel Obedience
from Burk Parsons Jul 04, 2011 Category: Articles
Are you obedient to the Gospel? At first glance, that may seem like an odd question. Typically, we don’t speak in such terms, but the Apostle Paul did. In his letters, we come across phrases similar to the one we encounter in 2 Corinthians 9:13, wherein Paul speaks of submitting to or obeying the Gospel of Christ (e.g. Rom. 10:16; 2 Thess. 1:8). In most cases, Paul speaks of those who do not obey the Gospel; however, in this instance, he praises the Corinthian church for their submission to their Gospel confession.
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Keeping the Lord’s Day
from Burk Parsons Jun 07, 2011 Category: Tabletalk Magazine
Burk Parsons begins this month's editorial introduction to Tabletalk magazine with a story. "In the summer of 1999, I was studying the Lutheran Reformation in eastern Germany with a group of fellow American graduate students. After attending a Sunday morning worship service at the Stadtkirche in Wittenberg, where Martin Luther often preached, we made our way south to Halle, the birthplace of G. F. Handel and seventeenth-century German pietism. Keep Reading -
Self-Kingdom-Mindedness
from Burk Parsons Apr 15, 2011 Category: Articles
Many evenings, as my daughters go to bed, I tell them a fairytale about a legendary princess who lived long ago. Every fairytale begins the same way: “Once upon a time in a land far, far away, in a great big castle, in the middle of the forest, there lived a princess, and her name was princess Bella. She was very humble and very kind. She loved her father, the king, and her mother, the queen. One day….”
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An Interview with Mike Anderson
from Burk Parsons Mar 11, 2011 Category: Articles
At first glance, Mike Anderson appears to be an average guy in his mid twenties who fits the typical description of a guy who embodies everything it means to be young, restless, and Reformed. When I was first introduced to Mike, I recall being immediately impressed by Mike’s passion for God and love for the church. Keep Reading -
Not Lords, Stewards
from Burk Parsons Mar 02, 2011 Category: Articles
The apostle Paul was neither afflicted with false modesty nor with any sort of apostolic pomposity. He understood his role and his office in the household of God. At times we find him needing to assert his apostolic office to the end that his readers would heed him as they would the Lord. On other occasions we find him passionately putting himself in place. He strove valiantly with the Corinthians to maintain their firm grasp of his apostolicity that they might obey his charge to regard him rightly as a man, a servant, and a steward, and most certainly not a king, a deity, or a little messiah.
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Unregrettable, Hard Words
from Burk Parsons Dec 24, 2010 Category: Articles
2 Corinthians 7:8–9 “For even if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though I did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while. As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting.” In reflecting on his previous letter to the Corinthian church, the apostle Paul is rightly mindful to draw attention to the grief that his letter caused among his recipients, not to mention the grief he himself experienced. Keep Reading -
Truly Reformed Theology
from Burk Parsons Dec 03, 2010 Category: Tabletalk Magazine
"It probably won’t surprise you to learn that no one has taught me more about the Bible and its theology than R.C. Sproul. And it shouldn’t surprise you to learn that no one has taught me more about mercy ministry than R.C. Sproul. Having worked for R.C. going on twelve years, I have witnessed, firsthand, one man’s faith working itself out in love. As the testimonies of his wife and children reveal, his theology of grace sustains his concern for the hungry, the widow, and the orphan. Appropriately, his theology informs his practice, as should ours." Keep Reading
