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Cessationism

CHARISMATIC DEBATE – Responding to Dan’s Objections

September 10, 2006

Last week I began my response to Dan Phillips by focusing on the importance of authentic relational Christianity. I had hoped that cessationists would have rallied to say something like, “Adrian, you are right about this bit — keep your tongues and prophecy to yourself, but we are as much in favour of a real [...]

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CHARISMATIC DEBATE – Responding to Dan Phillips

September 4, 2006

Well, finally I have managed to find time to begin to respond to Dan Phillips reply to my smattering of charismatic questions for cessationists. In his last post, Dan states so well the main drive behind my commitment to all of this, and it is with this that I intend to start. My second post [...]

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ROUND-UP – The Holy Spirit and the Charismatics

August 19, 2006

I know some of you might think that all I ever blog about is the charismatic/cessationist debate and the gifts of the Spirit. At first sight, this list of over 90 posts might seem to confirm that. But, this list of posts amounts to only around 4 per cent of the total number of my [...]

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BLOGDOM TODAY – Preaching, Preachers, and the Holy Spirit

August 8, 2006

LIG DUNCAN ON BEING FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT VIDEO PREACHERS PARTYING WITH PIPER BILLY GRAHAM REGRETS PROSPERITY/POVERTY THEOLOGY TOM SCHREINER ON PREACHING Lig Duncan on Ephesians Lig’s current expositional series – updated each week. Complete with mp3s and full sermon transcripts. Lig also shares outlines from time to time on his blog – e.g. Lig [...]

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While Warnie’s Away, the Discussion on Tongues and Charismatic Gifts Continues

August 6, 2006

Well, here I am — just back from holiday — and what do I find? Talk about whilst the cat’s away the mice will play?!? Over at TeamPyro, Dan has a four part response to my set of questions on tongues and gifts which I bashed out quickly before I left. I have read all [...]

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Tongues in the Blogosphere – Dr. Sam Storms Comments

July 28, 2006

As a further response to the ongoing discussion between Dan Phillips and myself, I received the following article from Sam Storms via email. This will be appearing on his site, Enjoying God Ministries, in a week or so. In the meantime, he has given me permission to post it here. In recent days two bloggers [...]

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Sufficient and Efficient Grace – Spurgeon, Tongues, and the Toronto Blessing

July 25, 2006

There you go . . .that got your attention, didn’t it! This is a post written in response to two great posts that appeared over at my good friends’ blog—the Pyromaniacs. (I don’t have to agree with a post in order to think it’s great!)Earlier in the week my relations with the guys at TeamPyro [...]

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Spurgeon "Wins" Stolen Warnie Award

July 22, 2006

Well, there are no lengths that some people won’t go to in order to honour their heroes. Spurgeon isn’t even alive to thank him, but Phil Johnson has stolen the graphic he created for me and has unilaterally decided to award one to The Prince of Preachers. All I can say is that Spurgeon deserves [...]

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Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Monday: Was the Doctor a Charismatic?

May 15, 2006

In last week’s final chapter of the Doctor’s exposition of Ephesians 1:13, I said that I would quote MLJ’s own experience, which occurred in the summer of 1949, and which Iain Murray refers to as one of the most remarkable [years] in Dr. Lloyd-Jones life. The following excerpt is from his biography, David Martyn-Lloyd-Jones The [...]

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April 16, 2006

links for 2006-04-16 Mohler Answers “What is the Gospel?” Early on Resurrection Sunday, much earlier than most of us have opened an eye, Al Mohler addresses CJ’s question. “What a time to consider the meaning of the Gospel.” (tags: gospel mohler T4GB) Substitution, Representation, Union–How We Benefit from Christ’s Death and Resurrection In his offering [...]

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Interview with Dr. Sam Storms

April 12, 2006

UPDATE In January 2008, the following post was identified as the 17th all-time most popular post with readers of this blog. The 18th most-read post was Dr. Kim Riddlebarger’s response to John MacArthur’s assertion that non-dispensational Calvinists are not “really reformed.” Sam Storms is well-known as a Calvinistic charismatic speaker. He writes popular books which [...]

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2000 posts and a big thank you to The Doctor

March 13, 2006

This is the 2000th post on this blog, which means that I have been posting on average just short of two posts a day for almost three years. That’s a whole lot of words one relatively recent reader has set out on a quest to go back and read ‘em all. I am not sure [...]

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The Riddle of what Mark Dever meant….

February 27, 2006

Had an email from a reader today: “I have only been on your site a few times, but came to it again today through Google after reading something I didn’t understand on the ‘Together for the Gospel’ blog. I’m sure you are aware that this is a site where four well known pastors/theologians discuss thing [...]

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Blogging on the gifts 1 Cor 12 part 3

February 13, 2006

the blue fish is joining me in blogging through 1 Cor 12. He says it right about v1-3: “Essentially, Paul wants his reader to know that being spiritual is about proclaiming Jesus as Lord. Put another way: Being spiritual, is being gospel. We cannot consider anything about gifts of the Spirit without this as the [...]

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The present and active God

January 16, 2006

PyroManiac: quotes Spurgeon today “Even if you could obtain miraculous gifts, you ought not to be satisfied to speak with tongues, nor to work miracles; but you should press on to know the Spirit with yourself indwelling, communing, quickening you.” In this quote Spurgeon shows himself to be the “experiential cessationist” I know him to [...]

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January 4, 2006

links for 2006-01-04 Interview with Maruice McCracken who heads the UCCF relay worker scheme (tags: adrianw interview students atonement charismatic cessationist evangelical mission ministry church) Pyromaniac awakens Thanks gaddabout for pointing this out, but I think its really mean of Phil – just when I decided to drop the whole subject for a while he [...]

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Jack Deere on cessationism

December 31, 2005

I just found an interesting article on TheHeresy.com described as being by Jack Deere: “No one ever just picked up the Bible, started reading, and then came to the conclusion that God was not doing signs and wonders anymore and that the gifts of the Holy Spirit had passed away. The doctrine of cessationism did [...]

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The year in review

December 30, 2005

Its that time of the year when we look back, get all misty eyed and think about the year that was. This will probably be a long post, in it I will first reflect on the ridiculously flattering but also rather humbling level of readership that has come this way in 2005, then I will [...]

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Challies interviews Dr. Wayne Grudem on charismatic gifts

December 14, 2005

Challies has published his Dr. Wayne Grudem interview I will just quote one extract for now to encourage you to go read the rest: I think we have in the twentieth century a historical aberration not essential to Reformed theology that cessationism has become the dominant view.

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Healing the charismatic rift?

December 9, 2005

Many many thanks to Justin Taylor who in a private email pointed me to an article by Vern Sheridan Poythress. Although bizzarely titled “Modern Spiritual Gifts as Analogous to Apostolic Gifts: Affirming Extraordinary Works of the Spirit within Cessationist Theology” I found next to nothing in this article that I disagreed with. If this article [...]

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