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Douglas Kelly Interview and Sermon

Nicholas T. Batzig — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:18:01 +0000

I had the enormous privilege of sitting down with Dr. Douglas Kelly, Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC at the Twin Lakes Fellowship to get an interview for Christ the Center. The first volume of Dr. Kelly’s Systematic Theology has been published by Christian Focus. I was able to talk with Dr. Kelly about various aspects of the doctrine of the Trinity. You can listen to the Christ the Center episode here.

Not long after Twin Lakes, I was speaking with my mother (who greatly appreciates Dr. Kelly’s preaching and teaching ministry) about the interview. She gave me a sermon tape of a message Dr. Kelly gave at the dedication of Golden Isles Presbyterian Church on St. Simon’s Island, Ga (The church I went to as a teenager). There is a note of interest in Rev. Al Baker’s introduction of Dr. Kelly. The message was delivered in 1997. Al mentions the fact that Dr. Kelly was just about to take a sabbatical to work on a new book–his Systematic Theology. You can listen to this message here.

Philip G. Ryken on Ecclesiastes

Nicholas T. Batzig — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:10:00 +0000

Just after we left Tenth Presbyterian Church to go to Christ the King, Phil began a series of sermons on the book of Ecclesiates. I wish I could have heard them in worship but I have been listening to them online recently. They are an excellent resource for anyone wanting to go deeper into the details and the biblical theology of Ecclesiates. You can find the sermons in that series here. I do want to remind you that the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals owns the rights to Dr. Ryken’s sermons and so they will be taken off Sermon Audio after about seven weeks or so. You should download everything you can now!

Independant Presbyterian Sermons

James T. O'Brien — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:58:00 +0000

At least one reader of this blog will be interested to discover that there is a two volume set of sermons by Willard Preston, a former pastor of the Independent Presbyterian Church in Savannah, Georgia. He served the church in the first half of the 19th century. This collection was published in 1857. The sermon titles promise an abundance of good reading. Enjoy!

You can find volume 1 here.

You can find volume 2 here.

Quite Possibly The Best Series Sinclair Ferguson Has Preached

Nicholas T. Batzig — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:51:00 +0000

Of all the series that I have heard Sinclair Ferguson preach, I think that this was the finest.

You’ll also be interested to know that hundreds of the sermons Dr. Ferguson preached at First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, SC have been added to SermonAudio. This makes it a bit easier to download them than it was at the First Pres. website.

Sermon by William Cunningham

Nicholas T. Batzig — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:39:00 +0000

While browsing books by Andrew Thomson on Googlebooks, I came across a volume entitled, “Four Lectures for Young Men.” It is not edited by the Andrew Thomson for whom I was searching, but I discovered that one of the lectures was by one of my all-time favorite theologians, William Cunningham. The lecture is entitled, “On the Temptations of Young Men to Embrace Infidel Opinions.” It is 20 pages long. Enjoy! It can be found here.

James Boice Sermon on The Need for Theology in the Evangelical Church

Nicholas T. Batzig — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:04:00 +0000

Here is the link to a great James Boice Sermon on a call for Theology in the church. It is based on Ephesians chapters 2 and 3. Boice affirms David Wells’ concern that the evangelical church has become worldly, and has abandoned God’s word. This is a superb message.

Phil Ryken’s Sermon at Elijah’s Baptism Service

Nicholas T. Batzig — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:58:00 +0000

Here is the link to the sermon that Phil Ryken preached at Elijah’s baptism. The text was Jeremiah 36:1-36. It was a great sermon with a very creative ending. This particular sermon exalted the centrality and importance of the word of God more than any I have heard in quite a while. Our friends, the Helfands, were also having their son, Daniel, baptized at this service.

Phil Ryken’s Sermon at Elijah’s Baptism Service

Nicholas T. Batzig — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:58:00 +0000

The Faithful Pastor Commended by Gilbert Tennent

James T. O'Brien — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:12:00 +0000

There is a sermon by James Davenport entitled, “The Faithful Minister Encouraged,” on-line at Internet Archive. It is based on II Corinthians 4:1 – “Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;…” It was preached at the opening of the Synod of New York when it met in Philadelphia on October 1, 1755. The thing that caught my attention and thus this post, is that the published version has a glowing commendation in a Preface by Gilbert Tennent (and a Richard Treat). Tennent was one of the great fathers of American Presbyterianism. Anything he recommended is worth reading. Davenport was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Southwold, Long Island, but at the time that the sermon was printed was pastor of Hopewell Presbyterian Church in Hopewell, NJ. (Before moving to SC, my wife and I drove through Hopewell almost every day for four years.)

The sermon is 35pp. long. It is the last of four sermons by different authors that are bound together. You will find it beginning on leaf 151. A search of “James Davenport” will not turn up the piece. The volume’s title and author are the title and author of the first piece in the collection. That work is entitled, “A Vindication of Gospel-Truth” and was written by Jedidiah Mills.

You can find this volume here.

The collection also contains a sermon preached at the funeral of another of America’s greatest Presbyterian ministers, Jonathan Dickinson, by John Pierson, pastor of the Woodbridge, NJ Presbyterian church. It is similarly titled, “The Faithful Minister.” There is a large blot on the cover and the first few pages which makes reading bits of it difficult. The other piece in the collection is a sermon by Aaron Burr, President of the College of NJ (Princeton).