Second London Confession of Faith (1689)

From Ian Clarey @ http://ruminationsbythelake.blogspot.com/

I just thought I would throw out a link to a resource I have used for my Sunday School class on the 1689 Confession. It is a PDF of the Confession, plus outlines, background information and doctrinal distinctives. The site says that the author of the study is anonymous, but I believe it was done by Jim Renihan. I could be wrong though. Here's the link.

Also, I have found the download Reformed Confessions to be useful, especially for copying and pasting, as well as comparing various confessions on different doctrines. Scroll down to download the file. It has everything from the early church creeds (Nicene, etc), to the Reformed (Belgic, etc) and Puritan confessions (WCF, 1689, etc) and modern statements of faith (Lausanne Covenant, etc). Check it out!

Essential Language Resource

By Scot McKnight

William Mounce, Mounce’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (MED). For decades the lay person has been given Vine’s dictionary in order to see an overview of the meaning of words, but Mounce has raised the level: this study is based on the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words but with easy access through English.

Here are some features:

First, MED has a nice little introduction to how to do word studies.
Second, MED is effective with any number of English translations, but it introduces the reader to the original language terms with ample references.
Third, MED is keyed to both Goodrick/Kohlenberger and to Strong’s.
Fourth, MED lists all Greek words that occur ten times or more, all Hebrew words that occur fifty times or more, and then also other exegetically significant words.