How to Use the Puritans in Counseling
Todd Hardin over at The Biblical Counseling Coalition writes on how the theology of English Puritan Richard Sibbes can be applied to a live counseling situation.
You can read the article here.
Southern Seminary Set to Renovate Its Campus
As Louisville’s newspaper, The Courier Journal, reports, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has a 10-year plan to renovate the campus which will be a $52 million investment. The current campus was founded in 1926 when the campus moved from downtown Louisville, where it had been since 1877. The seminary was originally founded in Greenville, South Carolina in 1859. The current campus was designed by landscape artist Frederick Law Olmsted (by the way, today is his birthday), designer of Central Park in New York City and the metro-Louisville area’s many parks.
Here are some pictures of Southern’s campus throughout the years.
Greenville, South Carolina Location
Downtown Louisville Campus
Welcome Center, Today
Frederick Law Olmsted
I pulled a book off my shelf this morning I had never thumbed through, Dr. O. S. Hawkins‘ The Pastor’s Primer. Hawkins was a significant Southern Baptist preacher in the late 20th century, and I knew little about him. In 1993 Hawkins took over the pastorate from a Southern Baptist great, W.A. Criswell.
Dr. O.S. Hawkins
Having done a Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Hawkins is now the President of GuideStone Financial Services, an organization that services retirement and benefit services for ministers. My Google search gave me some surprising information:
“GuideStone Funds has been honored with one of the most prestigious awards in the financial world for mutual fund families with up to $40 billion in assets — the 2012 Lipper Award for Best Overall Small Fund Group in the U.S., ranking No. 1 out of 182 eligible companies. The award is based on consistent risk-adjusted returns.
‘The Lipper Award for Best Overall Small Fund Group recognizes a standard of excellence that we pursue every day as we seek to honor the Lord and enable our faithful participants to invest according to their Biblical principles,’ said O.S. Hawkins, president and chief executive officer of GuideStone Financial Resources.
GuideStone Funds has achieved its leading level of excellence through its sophisticated, proprietary manager-of-managers investment platform that leverages what GuideStone believes to be the best possible intellectual capital worldwide. The 27 funds in the GuideStone Fund group are managed by more than 20 professionals dedicated to our investment process and committed to GuideStone’s Christian-based, social screening guidelines.”
The Passing of Charles W. Colson
Charles “Chuck” Colson was a special counselor to President Richard Nixon and was sent to prison as one of the Watergate Seven. He passed away on April 21 this year. He went to prison, converted to Christ, and founded the Prison Fellowship.
Dr. Russ Moore, Dean of the School of Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, recently pinned moving words about Colson’s experience of repentance and forgiveness:
“I have to believe that when Chuck Colson opened his eyes in the moments after death that he didn’t hear anything about break-ins or dirty tricks or guilty consciences. I have to believe Mr. Colson heard a Galilean voice saying, ‘I was in prison and you visited me’ (Matt. 25:36). I have to believe that he stood before his Creator with a new record, a new life transcript, one that belonged not to himself but to a Judean day-laborer who is now the ruler of the cosmos. And in that Lamb’s Book of Life there are no eighteen minute gaps.”
Here’s a video that tells his story.
We Love the Way Old Books Smell
We love history and old books here at Standing on Shoulders. My oldest book is from 1700. This guy explains why old books smell:
I found this video on Tim Challies’ blog.
Sovereign Grace Ministries is moving to Louisville!
Not only will the city of Louisville have an amazing Baptist, evangelical seminary in The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, it will also now host the Sovereign Grace Ministries Pastor’s College. You can read about the announcement on Sovereign Grace’s website.
As Louisville just hosted The Together for the Gospel Conference, this is exciting new for all who love evangelical unity.
And one more thing … if you’re in the Louisville area on Saturday, May 19, there is a one day ministry conference in Bardstown called The Call. You can sign up here. It’s only $15. I’ll see you there.
Southern Seminary in Downtown Louisville at the turn of the 20th Century
Martin Luther’s Trial at Worms
I’m a few days off, but law Professor Douglas O. Linder has an article on Martin Luther’s Trial at the Diet of Worms. Luther entered Worms on April 16, 1521, just a few days ago almost five hundred years ago.
You can read the article, here.
Also, Professor Linder has a webpage devoted to Luther’s trial, here.
