New Website for the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies

Posted on July 28, 2008 by Steve Weaver

A new website has been created for the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies at The Southern Baptist Theolgical Seminary in Louisville, KY.  The Center is directed by Dr. Michael A. G. Haykin.  With the creation of this website, Dr. Haykin will move his blog Historia ecclesiastica to the new site.  The site will also feature information about the conferences sponsored by the Center and the journal which the Center publishes semi-annually, Eusebeia.

In addition to the above features, the new website also highlights the writing ministry of Dr. Michael Haykin by providing an annotated list of Dr. Haykin’s books, as well as a growing list of papers and articles which he has written.  Audio of certain lectures given by Dr. Haykin in a variety of venues are also available for MP3 download.  This collection of audio resources promises to be updated regularly.

The next conference sponsored by the Center is scheduled for August 25-26, 2008.  The conference theme is the English Baptists of the 17th Century.  The conference schedule and registration information are available online by clicking here.  The next issue of Eusebeia is scheduled to be released in August, 2008 with nine articles largely derived from the lectures of last year’s conference on Andrew Fuller the Reader.  Subscription information and links to the table of contents and select articles from past issues are available here.

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I’m Now on Facebook

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Steve Weaver

I have long resisted the social networks like Facebook and MySpace.  But due to the encouragement of friends and family as well as the example of my heroes, I could resist Facebook no longer (I’m still resisting MySpace and have no fear of giving in at present.).  To view my profile click here.  To celebrate my arrival on Facebook, I post the following Rhett and Link video.  I saw it a few weeks ago and thought it moderately funny.  Now after a few days on Facebook myself, I find it totally hillarious.  The song parodies the obsession that many have with Facebook.  This song should be a good tonic.  Enjoy.

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Bush vs. Schwarzenegger

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Steve Weaver

“You wanna piece of me?”

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Vacation Time

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Steve Weaver

Beginning last Thursday and continuing to this Wednesday, I am taking some vacation time with my family.  Since we’re still paying two house payments (one in TN and one in KY), we haven’t been able to afford to go anywhere long distance.  Instead, we have made several small excursions from our home base in Frankfort.  Thursday was a day of hanging around the house and getting some things straightened up around here.  On Friday, we went to Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville.  We had a good time, especially at the Water Park.  On Saturday I watched the kids (minus Hannah), while Gretta and Hannah took an all day shopping trip to get some long needed items.  On Sunday our family attended Ashland Avenue Baptist Church in Lexington, KY.  We were greatly blessed by the ministry of Pastor David Prince and the friendliness of the membership of the church. Monday was a day of preparation for my parents arrival from Florida for a short visit.  After they arrived, we went to Casa Fiesta Mexican Restaurant last night for a delicious meal after which we drove around to show my parents the sites of Frankfort, mainly the Capitol Building lit up at night.

Today (Tuesday) we’re heading up to Northern Kentucky to visit the Creation Museum.  I’ve heard great things about it and Senior Pastors, Missionaries, and their spouses receive free admission (dependents are half price)!  I’m not sure what tomorrow holds.  Maybe a trip to Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace and Mammoth Cave.   I’ll let you know.

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Because You Can’t Sue the Holy Spirit

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Steve Weaver

From my old stomping grounds of Knoxville, TN comes this story of a man sueing a church because “he was so consumed by the spirit of God that he fell and hit his head while worshiping.”

(HT:  Jimmy Williams)

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Is the term “black hole” racially insensitive?

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Steve Weaver

You can’t make this stuff up.

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A “Sign” of the Times

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Steve Weaver

“Men at Work” signs to disappear in Atlanta.  To be honest, I’ve never seen men or women working where those signs are posted.

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Book Recommendation: God in the Whirlwind by Tim Ellsworth

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Steve Weaver

Just over five months ago an EF-4 tornado with winds over 200 miles per hour slammed into the campus of Union University in Jackson, TN.  Remarkably, no one was killed, although the campus sustained $40 million in damage.  In the days following the catastrophic events of February 5, numerous stories of God’s providence emerged from the ruins.  My friend, Tim Ellsworth (director of news and media relations at Union University and sports editor for Baptist Press), has taken in hand to provide the first hand accounts of God’s providence from select individuals who experienced these events.  The book, published by B & H Publishing, is titled God in the Whirlwind: Stories of Grace from the Tornado at Union University.  Buy the book, read the book, and be amazed at God’s providential care of the students of Union University.  Tim Ellsworth quotes from John Flavel’s The Mystery of Providence in his introduction to God in the Whirlwind:

If Christians in reading the Scriptures would judiciously collect and record the providences they shall meet with there, and (if destitute of other helps) but add those that have fallen out in their own time and experience, O what a precious treasure would these make!  What an antidote would it be to their souls against the spreading atheism of these days, and satisfy them beyond what many other arguments can do, that “The Lord he is the God; the Lord he is the God” (1 Kings 18:39).

The stories recounted in God in the Whirlwind are certainly worth telling.  I am thankful to God for his faithfulness during this time of crisis and to Tim Ellsworth who has preserved precious accounts from “our own time and experience”.  May this book be used by the same Providence that protected during the storm as “an antidote . . . against the spreading atheism of these days” until every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

To purchase God in the Whirlwind you may visit your local LifeWay store or order online at:

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A Pastoral Perspective on Heresies Old and New

Posted on July 7, 2008 by Steve Weaver

My friend, Bill Haynes, has written an article for the most recent issue of Tabletalk which provides a pastoral perspective on the heresies of the eighth century.  Bill is the Senior Pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Somerset, KY and currently serves as a trustee of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY.

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A New Issue of Eusebeia Available Soon

Posted on July 1, 2008 by Steve Weaver

A new issue of Eusebeia: The Bulletin of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies is almost finished being edited and will be available soon. The following is the list of articles in the upcoming journal. All but two articles were presented at last year’s Annual Conference.

  • “A GREAT THIRST FOR READING”: ANDREW FULLER THE THEOLOGICAL READER by MICHAEL A.G. HAYKIN
  • ANDREW FULLER: HEIR OF THE REFORMATION by JEFFREY K. JUE
  • JOHN OWEN AND ANDREW FULLER by CARL R. TRUEMAN
  • ANDREW FULLER’S READING OF JOHN GILL by BARRY HOWSON
  • THE INFLUENCE OF JONATHAN EDWARDS ON ANDREW FULLER by THOMAS J. NETTLES
  • SENSE OF THE HEART: JONATHAN EDWARDS’ LEGACY IN THE WRITING OF ANDREW FULLER by CHRIS CHUN
  • CHRIST’S ABSOLUTE DETERMINATION TO SAVE: ANDREW FULLER AND PARTICULAR REDEMPTION by JEREMY PITTSLEY
  • ANDREW FULLER’S ORDINATION SERMONS by NIGEL WHEELER
  • THE LETTERS OF JOHN ERSKINE TO THE RYLANDS by JONATHAN YEAGER

I will be assuming the position of Managing Editor for Eusebeia with the next issue (#10).  Subscriptions for Eusebeia are available at the rates of $20 in North America or $30 outside North America.  Individual issues are available for $10.

For more information about receiving this issue, subscribing to Eusebeia, or attending this year’s conference (August 25-26, 2008 at SBTS) then contact me (Steve Weaver) at andrewfullercenter@sbts.edu.

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