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A Baptist Model for Church Life (October 10th-13th). Dr. James Renihan, from California, will help us be informed and inspired by our Baptist history and theology. He is Dean and Professor of Historical Theology at The Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies at Westminster Seminary California in Escondido, CA.

He has written a definitive guide to church life among early English Baptists, entitled “Edification and Beauty: the Practical Ecclesiology of the English Particular Baptists, 1675-1705”.

Jonah’s voyage to Tarshish had great consequences for Jonah.  It had great consequences for the people of Nineveh.  But it also had great consequences for the sailors who manned the ship.  How wonderfully God weaves together the lives of different people in his one great plan!

On the Mount of Transfiguration Moses and Elijah talked with Jesus about his Exodus.  They knew he could only bring his people out of slavery by his own death as the Passover Lamb.  But Peter’s mind was not on Passover: it was on Tabernacles – the Full Harvest celebration.    But without Passover, the Full Harvest could never come – for Peter or for us.

Jonah disobeyed a plain command of God and then ran away  He wanted to find a place where he would have no reminders of the God he had disobeyed.  How does God deal today with believers who disobey his clear commands?

Peter and the other disciples confessed that Jesus was the Christ, supreme over all.  And Jesus told them what his destiny was to be.  Yet when they saw Elijah and Moses in their splendour, they quickly forgot the lessons they had learned.  What distracts us from Christ?