I thought this post from John Piper was quite compelling and affection-stirring: What would the doctrines of grace sound like if every limb in that tree were coursing with the sap of Augustinian delight. (that is, Christian Hedonism)? Total depravity is not just badness, but blindness to God’s beauty and deadness to the deepest joy. [...]
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Christian Hedonist Calvinism
January 4, 2012John Piper, Rick Warren, and the Purpose Driven Life
May 27, 2011Let’s just pretend for a moment you did not read the title of this blogpost. Let’s pretend that there was an anonymous Christian minister who explicitly affirmed the following: I am passionate about the glory of God above all things. I believe in the absolute sovereignty of God in all things, including sin and tragedy. [...]
Burk Parsons on Truly Reformed
December 5, 2010Burk Parsons: At its core, Christian theology is a theology of grace. One of the primary distinctions of Christian theology is the doctrine of grace, which pervades every area of our faith and life. Throughout the centuries of history, Christians have testified to this truth. When Paul, in the first century, and the Reformers, in [...]
Nathan Finn on Reformed Baptists
July 19, 2010Nathan Finn has written a helpful four-part series on being Reformed and Baptist that I would like to commend to you. While those with a historical consciousness and theological acumen understand the symbiotic nature of being Reformed and Baptist, there will always be those within the SBC who will attempt to present the two as [...]
Tom Nettles on Experiential Theology
July 5, 2010Joe Thorn has started an excellent new series on pastor-theologians, and this week, he has interviewed Dr. Tom Nettles. The journey Joe describes in his love of God and truth is one that I can imagine many have traveled down, and to see him doing a series on combining head, heart, and hands is going [...]
Ray Ortlund on “Truly Reformed”
June 5, 2010If you are not reading (or have not subscribed to) Ray Ortlund’s blog, you are missing some of the best devotional commentary on the Internet. Most recently, he has taken up the issue of being “truly Reformed.” Generally, this title is attributed to fundamentalists in the Reformed camp who have a hard time with Christians [...]
Dysfunctional Calvinism
February 4, 2010I hope that my writings in support of Calvinism gives me the credibility to offer a few words concerning dysfunctional Calvinism. If not, I am going to say it anyway. Most of the Calvinists I have met are robustly evangelical and passionate about the gospel. They love the church and have found their soteriological understanding [...]
Charles Finney, Cooperation, and the GCR
November 17, 2009Over at Between the Times, Drs. Danny Akin and Bruce Ashford have continued their excellent series on “Seven Crucial Aspects of Our Mission” (which is broken down in true Puritan style of multiple sub-points and cases) with an article focusing on cooperation between Calvinists and non-Calvinists. As you know, this issue has been with us [...]
Morris Chapman, Calvinism, and Saving Faith (Part 3)
July 21, 2009In my third and final post (see Part 1 and Part 2) on Morris Chapman’s recent comments on Calvinism, I want to focus on what Baptists have historically said on the issue of the Holy Spirit’s work in salvation and more specifically saving faith. Before I do, however, I want to comment briefly on how [...]
Morris Chapman, Calvinism, and Saving Faith (Part 2)
July 20, 2009In Part 1, I sought address specific comments by Morris Chapman from his convention “report,” nothing also a few areas of duplicity. In Part 2, I want to interact with his “Clarification of Intent,” especially as it concerns the doctrine of saving faith. Chapman’s Charges Quote #1 “I have heard and read with increasing frequency [...]
Morris Chapman, Calvinism, and Saving Faith (Part 1)
July 16, 2009Morris Chapman, president and CEO of the Executive Committee, has up until this time chosen not to address the pressing issue of the forced resignation of Clark Logan; however, he has taken up another topic stemming from his convention “report”—Calvinism. His strange and categorically inaccurate views of those who hold to the doctrines of grace [...]
John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, & Doxology (Review)
July 10, 2009Today, we celebrate the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth–a man who towers over church history like few others. Many of those I follow on Twitter are sharing their favorite quotes from Calvin’s writings, but as one rightly exhorted, get to know the man himself and not the caricature. In the book, John Calvin: A [...]
Oh to love, to believe, to hope, to delight in God!
May 26, 2009“Oh to love the Saviour with a passion that can never cool; Oh to believe in God with a confidence that can never stagger! Oh, to hope with an expectation that can never be dim! Oh, to delight in God with a holy over-flowing rejoicing that can never be stopped, so that we might live [...]
Interacting with Alvin and Nathan Regarding SBC and Calvinism
February 27, 2009Drs. Alvin Reid and Nathan Finn have begun to write (together) the case for consensus for Calvinism in the SBC. Contrary to what some believe, I believe this is the desire of most (if not all) Calvinists I know in the SBC. The series at Between the Times has been encouraging to read, I however [...]
Johnny Hunt, Calvinism, and the Past Ten Years of My Life
October 19, 2010Before you read any further, please watch this short video clip where Dustin Neeley interviewed Johnny Hunt at the Advance the Church conference earlier this year. This video clip is moving to me for reasons most of you are unaware I presume. Although some of my life story is recorded in Collin Hansen’s Young, Restless, [...]
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