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 [...]
Posted tagged ‘Conversion’
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 . . .
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 [...]
Elemental Evangelism, Part 3
October 12, 2007[Part one and part two] After having presented the truths of the gospel, the next two elements necessarily follow, viz. being confrontational and pastoral. 5. Confrontational Saving faith has historically been understood to carry three aspects: notitia (knowledge), assensus (assent), and fiducia (trust). What doctrinal evangelism through a biblical theological approach does is provide a [...]
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