For our next couple of meetings, here are the readings from Louis Berkhof’s Systematic Theology:

Isaiah 55:12 speaks about mountains singing and trees clapping their hands. Obviously, Isaiah does not really think that the mountains will literally sing or the trees literally clap. Rather, he is using poetic license to express vividly the tremendous joy that will come to the whole world when the people of God repent and turn back to the Lord.

The knowledge of God present in his creatures is only a weak likeness, a finite, limited sketch, of the absolute self-consciousness of God accommodated to the capacities of the human or creaturely consciousness.

Because of ongoing interest in theological classes, we will start a Saturday School of Theology this Saturday, May 12, 2012. We will go through Louis Berkhof’s Systematic Theology, with additional resources from the Three Forms of Unity (Heidelberg Catechism, Belgic Confession, and Canons of Dort), Westminster Standards (Confession and Catechisms), and other readings.

Rev. Allen Vander Pol of Miami International Seminary is planning to come to Manila to teach on November 11 and 12 (Friday and Saturday), 8:30 am – 4 pm. He will teach one of these three options: Doctrine of Man,…