Please join us for the Annual General Meeting,
which is to be held, Lord willing, on
Monday, October 10th, 2011
@ 7:30 pm
Pastor Gerald Buss,
the Vice-Chairman of the General Committee, London,
is expected to speak on the subject of
“Not Handling the Word of God Deceitfully.”
The meeting will be held at the Free Reformed Church,
950 Ball Avenue SE, Grand Rapids, MI
Refreshments will be served after the meeting.
For more information, please contact our office at 616-735-3695
Trinitarian Bible Society to hold commemorative conference marking the 400th anniversary of the Authorised (King James) Version
The Society is planning the conference in cooperation with the Institute for Biblical Textual Studies and is honored to have Dr. Gerald Bilkes and Rev. Malcolm Watts as speakers for this memorable event.
Lord willing, the conference will be held at 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 4th, 2011, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at the DeVos Center for Arts and Worship 2300 Plymouth Ave. SE (just South of the corner of Burton and Plymouth) A reception and refreshments will be served in the atrium following the lecture.
Dr. Gerald Bilkes
Dr. Gerald Bilkes is
Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology. He completed a Ph.D.
from Princeton Theological Seminary. He was recipient of the United
States Information Agency Fellowship at the Albright Institute (ASOR) in
Jerusalem (1997-1998). Dr. Bilkes has written several articles on
biblical-theological themes and given addresses at several conferences.
His areas of special interest include hermeneutics, the history of
interpretation, and conversion in the Bible.
Rev. Malcolm Watts trained at the London Bible College from 1967-70 and has been the minister of Emmanuel Church, Salisbury, England, since 1971. At present, he is Chairman of the General Committee of the Trinitarian Bible Society, and Chairman of the Bible League Trust, which publishes the Bible League Quarterly. Rev. Watts is a visiting Lecturer at the London Reformed Baptist Seminary and the Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has spoken at conferences throughout the United Kingdom and abroad. He is author of The Lord Gave The Word: A Study in the History of the Biblical Text, and several other publications.
Cover page of Gospel of John, San Francisco
The Trinitarian Bible Society is pleased to be working with SermonAudio.com to print the Gospels of John for their Gospel of John project. To date, 79,500 copies of the Gospel of John have been sent directly to homes in New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Orlando & more. Find out which city is next! For more information or to support the project, please visit sermonaudio.com.
London Bus Poster Campaign Update
"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.' Psalm 14.1
The London bus poster campaign is underway in England. Our colleague, David Larlham, recently engaged in dialogue with the creator of the 'atheist' bus campaign, Ariane Sherine.
News from London
Please note: The Trinitarian Bible Society, despite implications currently in the media, is in no way associated with the Russian Orthodox Church or the Christian Party, either in the bus poster campaign or any other works.
'The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.'
(Psalm 53.1)
As some of our supporters in the United Kingdom may be aware, an advertising campaign is planned by the British Humanist Society, in association with the prominent 'atheist' Professor Richard Dawkins of Oxford University, to place posters on buses in London in early 2009, with the slogan, 'There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life'. At its last meeting the General Committee of the Society agreed to spend £35,000 on a poster campaign on the buses in London to display the text, 'The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God'. On each of the posters will be the offer of free copies of the Bible from the Society.
We would value the prayerful support of all our friends that the Lord's blessing may attend the public display of His Word in this way. May the many thousands who shall see these posters not only be provoked by His Word, but also (by the Lord's mighty power and grace) be brought under true conviction of their sin and cry unto the one true and living God for mercy! Prayer is also sought for the wise and gracious handling by the Society of the responses that may be received. Churches and individuals may wish to consider how they may be more personally involved in this project, possibly by sponsoring part of the cost of this campaign. Thought will be given at a later date to the possibility of extending the campaign and displaying other portions of the Scriptures in a similar way in London and possibly elsewhere.
(06 Feb 2009)
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