Justin Taylor Interviews Piper and Meyer on Succession

Read Collin Hansen's blog post at TGC.

Desiring God 2012 Disability Conference

November 8, 2012, in Minneapolis, MN, Desiring God will be hosting this important conference.  Speakers are Nancy Guthrie, Greg Lucas, Mark Talbot and John Piper.  Check out the schedule and join us for this one day event.  REGISTER

Love Your Enemies - New Release by John Piper

Crossway Books press on the content of this work:

"This is one of the few statements Jesus made that is readily accepted by believers and skeptics alike. Its authenticity is not seriously questioned and yet it is a revolutionary command.

Giving attention to various critical theories, John Piper presents evidence that the early church earnestly advocated for non-retaliatory love, extending it to those who practiced evil in the world. Such love was key to the church’s own ethical tradition or paraenesis.

Piper illuminates the Synoptics and passages in Romans, as well as 1 Thessalonians and 1 Peter, with non-canonical evidence, investigating the theological significance of Jesus’s love command.

Originally published as #38 in the Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, this is John Piper’s doctoral dissertation from the University of Munich. It is a serious work of Christian scholarship by a long-time respected author and pastor, this repackaged edition features a new, extensive introduction and will be of interest to scholars, students, and lay people who have training in New Testament studies."

If you would like to get a peek at the book it was originally published in 1979 by Cambridge University Press and is available on google books. 

Desiring God 2012 National Conference

	Act the Miracle: God’s Work and Ours in the Mystery of Sanctification
	September 28 – 30, 2012
	Minneapolis Convention Center
	Minneapolis, MN
	Pleanary Speakers: Kevin DeYoung, Russell  Moore, Ed Welch, Jarvis Williams, and John Piper
	Seminar Speakers: Kevin DeYoung, Elyse Fitzpatrick, R W Glenn, Sally Lloyd-Jones, David Mathis, Carolyn McCulley, and Fernando Ortega
	Early Bird Registration received by July 27 - $150 per person (save $40) Registration received by August 31 - $ 175 per person (save $15) Registration received by September 21 - $190 per person FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 10:00 AM  Check-In/Registration/Bookstore & Exhibits Open Seminars are in two tracks Track One: Sanctification in the Seasons of Life* 1:00 – 1:45 PM   Carolyn McCulley - Singleness 2:00 – 2:45 PM   Sally Lloyd-Jones – Parenting through Storytelling 3:00 – 3:45 PM   Elyse Fitzpatrick - Grandparenting    Track Two: Forgotten Factors in Sanctification* 1:00 – 1:45 PM   David Mathis – Mission and Disciple-making 2:00 – 2:45 PM   Kevin DeYoung – Bread and Wine 3:00 – 3:45 PM   R W Glenn – Work and Rest 4:00 – 4:45 PM   Fernando Ortega – Corporate Worship  * You may pick and choose between each track. 7:00 - 8:30 PM   John Piper Prelude to Acting the Miracle: Putting Sanctification in  Its Place 9:00 - 10:00 PM  Evening of Worship with Fernando Ortega 11:00 PM Bookstore & Exhibits Close SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 7:30 AM Bookstore & Exhibits Open 8:30 - 10:00 AM   Kevin DeYoung Energy for Acting the Miracle: Fear, Rewards,  and the Multiplicity of Biblical Motivations 10:00 - 10:30 AM  Break 10:30 - 11:30 AM  Ed Welch Sinners Learning to Act the Miracle: Restoring Broken Vessels and the Limits of Life in the Body 11:30 AM - 1:45 PM   Lunch Break 1:45 - 2:45 PM   Jarvis Williams Acting the Miracle in the Everyday: Word of God, Means of Grace, and the Pursuit of Practical Maturity 2:45 - 3:15 PM   Break 3:15 - 4:15 PM   Q& A – DeYoung, Moore, Piper, Welch, and Williams 4:15 – 7:00 PM Dinner Break 7:00 - 8:30 PM   Russell Moore Acting the Miracle Together: Corporate Dynamics in Christian Sanctification 10:30 PM Bookstore & Exhibits Close SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 7:30 AM Bookstore & Exhibits Open 8:00 - 9:00 AM Morning Devotional with R W Glenn  9:30 - 11:00 AM   John Piper Remember the Gospel, Act the Miracle: Future Grace,  the Word of the Cross, and the Purifying Power of God’s Promises 12:00 PM Bookstore & Exhibits Close

Rev. Daniel R. Pershing Grave Stone Found

Rev. Daniel R. Pershing is my Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather.  The video finding his grave stone adds to my search of the family history.  Near the end of this walk through the cemetery you will see the grave stone of Daniel Pershing and James Pershing. There is a part one of the video that gives the lay of the land near New Florance, PA.
 

   Rev. Daniel R. Pershing was born a month or two after his parents arrival at Coventry.  He was one of the first children born in the territory of the New Purchase, which was known as Westmoreland County.  He was taught by his parents because there were no schools.  After he had learned the three "R's" he began his university that was in every cabin.  The text book of cabin university was the Bible, universally read and one of the few books that was obtainable.  He was an avid reader and became recognized in the frontier as a man of accomplishment.   He married Christina Milliron on January 26, 1796.  She was born in Westmoreland County, of parents who settled in the vicinity of Milliron's Church, west of Greensburg, in the early days of the county.
    Daniel lived at Coventry until 1801.  The last son to leave home, the care of his mother fell to him after Fredrick's death.  He attended Zion Church, and records of October 23, 1796 find that he worshiped there with his family, thus establishing his with the Lutheran Church at an early date.
    On April 15, 1801, he purchased a farm of about 180 acres in Derry Township, about one mile north of the village of Brandenville.  He made the purchase from Samuel Eaton, who inherited the property from his father, James Eaton, who had settled in 1769, and it became the headquarters of the so-called St. Clair branch of the Pershing family.  The title to the land remained in the family until about 1888.
    Although Daniel had been raised a Lutheran he joined the Methodist Church and became a follower of Wesley in 1799.  In August, 1816, he was licensed as a local preacher and entered the ministry.  He was re-licensed in March, 1818, and again in the Spring of 1819.
    On September 7, 1819, he was ordained a deacon by Bishop R.B. Roberts at an annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which met at Baltimore.  From the year of his ordination to the time of his death he was a circuit rider and ministered to those of his own and other faiths throughout Westmoreland and the surrounding counties.  He established missions, built churches and occupied himself faithfully in the service of the Methodist Church.  He preached in both German and English as occasion required and was successful in the ministry as he had been in his farming.
    His first year's salary as a circuit rider was $30, and never exceeded $250 per year.  His circuit at times required him to travel north across the Allegheny River to the extremity of the settlements; east to the summit of the mountains; south to Uniontown and into Virginia, and west to the settlements of Ohio.  His parish was thus spread over, and even extended beyond, the territory of the New Purchase.  His ministry kept him away from home for many months at a time.  He carried his saddle bags with food for his journey and books which he sold to his parishioners, as was customary in his day.  In making his trips to the northern settlements he was obliged to carry his rifle, as the Indians still frequented that district.

The family tree from my grandmother Gladys Pershing back. Always looking for stories about these family members.

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Famous Generals - General John J. Pershing

Memorial Day