The video below has gone viral, with over four million hits on YouTube. You can read all about it here. Sarah Churman, deaf for her entire life, hears her own voice for the fist time in 29 years after being given a hearing implant. I could not help after watching this video but think about [...]
Archive for the ‘Conversion’ category
What No Ear Has Heard
October 3, 2011Faith is the consequence, not the cause, of the new birth.
February 27, 2010John Piper (and John Stott) on 1 John 5:1 . . .
Jonathan Edwards on Continued Transformation and Renewal
August 7, 2009In his book Religious Affections, Jonathan Edwards argued that one way distinguish truly gracious affections from others is that they are attended with a change of nature. When the soul has a spiritual understanding of the excellency and glory of divine things, such understanding brings the supernatural effect of transformation, or a change of nature. [...]
Toward a Gospel Consensus for a Great Commission Resurgence
April 8, 2009I, along with many others, have been giving considerable thought with the desire to see a great commission resurgence in my generation. I am fully on board with the vision and look forward to being a foot soldier in the cause of participating in the mission of God through the advancement of the gospel in [...]
Post-Christian Culture and False Conversion
April 3, 2009There are things that can be mistaken that have little to no consequence, but conversion is not one of them. You can be mistaken by the color of your socks while getting ready in the morning. You can be mistaken by how well your digestive system can process “authentic” Chinese and Mexican food. You be [...]
A Follow Up Question
January 25, 2009Following up on my last question (I’m going somewhere with this), allow me to ask a follow-up question for your consideration as well: “If there is no life in Christ apart from love for Christ, how does one come to have a love for Christ?” Discuss.
A Question for Your Consideration
January 24, 2009Question: “Is it possible to have life in Christ without love for Christ?” Please answer/discuss in the comments.
Paul Washer, Decisional Regeneration, and First Baptist Woodstock
November 21, 2008Paul Washer doesn’t play around in preaching, nor does he live in shades of gray. What is fascinating about Washer’s preaching is that it continually dominates the charts on SermonAudio and attracts thousands through YouTube videos (his “shocking” sermon has nearly 900,000 visitors) while at the same time is never asked to come back and [...]
Paul Helm on Word and Spirit in Conversion
November 1, 2007Paul Helm has posted on his blog an important article entitled “Word and Spirit in Conversion” (incidentally something I have been studying in regards to pneumatological inclusivism). He explains, “In this paper I should like to explore the moral side to conversion and to set out two models of this aspect of conversion which have [...]
The Pelagian System of Decisional Regeneration Detrimental to Evangelism, Says Packer
October 25, 2007More from my studies of Finney, this time from Packer in his “zinger” days of old. Below are three quotes from his book A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan View of the Christian Life (Crossway, 1990). Anyone see a relationship here between decisional regeneration and unregenerate church membership? Of Finney, Iain Murray argues, “The new [...]
The Glorious Work of Redemption
October 18, 2007In his Thoughts on the New England Revival: Vindicating the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards shares how the work of redemption is “the most glorious work of God whatseover.” Edwards writes, “It is the work of redemption (the great end of all other works of God, and of which the work of creation was but a [...]
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