Announcements

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Christianity in Africa class

A special opportunity is available to students during the upcoming winter term. Along with George Martin, Randy Arnett (over 30 years ministry experience in West Africa) and Charles Juma (from East Africa) will be offering the course 33477, “Topics in Missions: Christianity in Africa.” The seminar format class will be offered from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Dec. 14-18. (more…)

Church planting family banquet

On Friday, Dec. 4, the Church Planting Center will be hosting its annual church planting family banquet from 6-8 p.m. in the President’s Reception Room. You must RSVP by Nov. 24 to attend. Come hear Cincinnati-area church planter and Southern Seminary graduate Michael Clary, and his wife share about the difficulties and delights of being a church planting family. (more…)

Study break during finals

The SBTS Student Council will serve coffee and doughnuts to all students from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 1. Come by the lobby of 5th and Broadway early to pick up your free Blue Book for you final exam. The event is sponsored by the Seminary Student Council.

Blogs

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Render Not to Caesar What Is God’s
by Denny Burk – Nov 20

I just finished reading and signing The Manhattan Declaration (MD), and I urge you to do the same. The Manhattan Declaration is a document affirming the sanctity of human life, the sanctity of marriage, and the rights of conscience and religious liberty.

The Blur of Gender — Is The New York Times Trying to Tell Us Something?
by R. Albert Mohler Jr. – Nov 20

Is The New York Times trying to tell us something? Just eleven days after running a story on gender-bending teenagers on the front page of its “Style” section, the paper is back with yet another front page story in the same section, this time on gender-bending young adults. The articles even cite the same psychologist as authority. What’s going on here?

When Morality Collapses — The Therapeutic Evasion
by R. Albert Mohler Jr. – Nov 19

Any civilization requires a stable, rational, and consensual moral framework in order to survive. Western civilization has been built on a framework of Christian morality, with the so-called “Judeo-Christian ethic” providing the moral principles that support laws, ethical reasoning, and moral impulses.

Turning the Bible into Toilet Paper
by Denny Burk – Nov 18

I mentioned yesterday that I am in New Orleans this week to deliver a paper on homosexuality at the Evangelical Theological Society. Yesterday I came across an article that relates to the subject matter of that paper.

History Highlight

Moving to the James P. Boyce Centennial Library

November of this year marks the 50th anniversary of the completion of the James P. Boyce Centennial Library. The groundbreaking for the library was held on May 24, 1957. Construction began in July 1958 and the cornerstone was set in May 1959.

The new library was completed and furnished by the beginning of November 1959, but the challenge of moving more than 100,000 volumes from Memorial Library in Norton Hall across campus to the new James P. Boyce Centennial Library in a timely manner still remained.

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The Holy Spirit’s illumination of the truth of God’s Word

An article by Bruce Ware, professor of Christian Theology at Southern Seminary and current president of the Evangelical Theological Society.

Scripture teaches that we can only correctly understand the truths of Scripture’s teaching when the Holy Spirit illumines God’s truth and enables us to see it for what it is:  glorious and wondrous spiritual truth.

To see this, let’s start at the most basic level and acknowledge that people who do not truly know Christ are simply unable to understand rightly some of Scripture’s teaching.  These are people whose minds and hearts are dominated by sin (Rom 8:6-8) and who do not have the Holy Spirit to illumine the Scriptures; as a result, they simply cannot understand correctly the spiritual truths Scripture teaches. Paul expresses this point in 1 Corinthians 2:14, “The natural person [i.e., the unsaved person devoid of the Spirit] does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.”

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