The Problem Stated If God is sovereign over all things, even the salvation of men, then does that mean that God is sovereign over evil as well? Or to ask another way: Does evil exist in the world because God…
Happy Thursday, this is the curation portion of the blog. Each Thursday, we will list and give a brief description of the resources we have found helpful. Review Go or Hold the Rope (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3)…
Introduction In this post, I want to explore some of the insights I drew from reading Benjamin Keach’s The Travels of True Godliness. Benjamin Keach was a seventeenth-century Particular Baptist and one of the signatories of the London Baptist Confession…
At the beginning of social distancing, I spoke with a mentor of mine, a man with over four decades in pastoral ministry. Our purpose for talking wasn't the present situation, but it wasn't possible to ignore it. I asked him…
Introduction In 1856, Charles Spurgeon moved his congregation to the biggest indoor venue in London, namely, the Surrey Garden’s Music Hall. The music hall was immense, seating nearly 10,000 people. He led his congregation to this building because he had…
So far in this Andrew Fuller series, you have been given an overview of his life and a closer look at his contributions to the "modern missions movement." This final post of the series will seek to draw some applications…
"The true churches of Jesus Christ travail in birth for the salvation of men. They are the armies of the Lamb, the grand object of whose existence is to extend the Redeemer's kingdom" (Fuller v2, 359). Fuller wrote the quote…
Birth and Childhood On February 6, 1754, Andrew Fuller was born to Robert Fuller and Philippa Gunton, who were farmers in Wicken, Cambridgeshire (Haykin 24). Both of his parents were Baptist, and his grandmothers also were Baptists. One of them…
Introduction “Real religion consists in a supreme love to God,” declared the eighteenth-century pastor Samuel Pearce, “and disinterested love to man” (140). The sentiment of this quotation isn’t original to Pearce. Jesus, summarizing the ten commandments, answered a scribe’s inquiry,…