The Bristow Beacon: A Blog of the Bristow Institute of Theology
Dr. Lloyd-Jones on the Altar Call
Early in the 1970s, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones was the speaker at a ministers’ conference in the USA and at a question session was asked a question about altar calls.
The Purpose of Prayer According to John Calvin
Prayer has a vital place in the life of the Christian. One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
Why All Things Work for Good
Thomas Watson: "If the whole Scripture is the feast for the soul (as Ambrose says)—then Romans 8 may be a dish at that feast, and with its sweet variety may very much refresh and animate the hearts of God's people."
The Gospels as Biographies of Jesus
The Gospels are foundational documents that were planned long in advance by their writers. There are numerous proposed genre types for the Gospels. However, the Gospels are most immediately identified as ancient biography since they center on a single historical character and draw on ample historical tradition.
The Aim of Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is the science of how we read, understand, and interpret writings, particularly ones written in a different era or context of life than our own.
How Many Wills Does God Have?
It gets very complicated when you come to a text that speaks of God’s will because it has to be interpreted by its immediate context as well as the rest of Scripture before we can land definitively on which particular view of God’s will the text is referencing.
Why Study Theology
How do you contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all time handed down to the saints effectively?