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The Assurance of Discipline
from Burk Parsons Aug 06, 2013 Category: Tabletalk Magazine
Here's an excerpt from The Assurance of Discipline, Burk Parsons' contribution to the August issue of Tabletalk: Keep Reading -
Generous Gospel Obedience
from Burk Parsons Jul 01, 2013 Category: Articles
In obedience to their confession of the Gospel, the Corinthians, who were known throughout the world for their wealth and immorality, had given financially to support the church at Jerusalem, a people whom they had never met and with whom they had little in common except for their common confession in the gospel of Jesus Christ. What’s more, their gift didn’t simply help the struggling Jerusalem church but “fully supplied” all they needed. Keep Reading
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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. Keep Reading
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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. Keep Reading
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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….” 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. Keep Reading -
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 -
Genuine Love
from Burk Parsons Dec 02, 2010 Category: Articles
Words and their meanings have lexical, not to mention historical significance. In every culture and with every language, we must be mindful to use words carefully and not to allow the meanings of words to get lost in the relativistic vocabularies of those who could care less about the next generation and their understanding of words, their meanings, and the truths they represent. Keep Reading