God Is Good (All the time?)

One time a few years ago at church, a woman stood to give a testimony about how she had suffered from a physical ailment for a long time.  She was giving glory to God because she had not been having the problem for a while, and it seemed that she may have been healed from [...]

Christ Satisfied Justice

“There was only one, and there will not need to be another, who bore the full weight of the divine judgment upon sin and bore it so as to end it. The lost will eternally suffer in the satisfaction of justice. But they will never satisfy it. Christ satisfied justice.”
—John Murray, Redemption Accomplished and Applied
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What Kind of Theologian Are You?

Demian Farnworth has an interesting article on his blog Fallen and Flawed.  He points out that everyone, even an atheist, is a theologian, because a theologian is anyone who thinks, talks, studies, debates, or argues about God.  If you have an opinion about God, you are a theologian.  He also lists 3 ways to be [...]

Should You Invite Jesus Into Your Heart?

In a thought-provoking article at Christian Communicators Worldwide, Jim Elliff examines the standard interpretation and application of John 1:12 as it’s often used in evangelism, and calls for a more biblical approach focused on belief and it’s evidences, rather than “asking Jesus into your heart”.  Referring to most evangelistic tracts, he says:
” . . . [...]

The Second Coming is Like Lightning and Vultures

One of my goals for 2009 is to study the main eschatological views, to better understand them and to determine what I “really believe” about the end times.  Currently, I’m reading A Case for Amillennialism: Understanding the End Times, by Kim Riddlebarger.  I’m not suggesting that John Piper is an amillenialist, but this post, from [...]

10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now

An article in Time magazine covers 10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now, and I bet you’re going to be surprised at #3: “The New Calvinism”. The article gives shout-outs to John Piper, Mark Driscoll, and Albert Mohler as examples of the growing evangelical Calvinist movement. David Crowder and Colin Hansen are also mentioned.  [...]

There May Be Hope Yet

Alvin Reid and Nathan Finn, both professors at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, have written excellent open letters addressing the issue of Calvinism and “non-Calvinism” in the SBC. They have also written an article together, with another article forthcoming. I believe that this is the kind of dialogue that can be very helpful in [...]