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Discernment

Piper and Wright: Does Justification by Faith Save Us?

November 7, 2007

So far in this series we have looked at the following: John Piper, N. T. Wright, and Gracious Discernment John Piper Challenges N. T. Wright on Justification Piper Explains the Classic View of Justification Versus N. T. Wright’s View Today I want to share a quote from The Future of Justification in which Piper responds [...]

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Piper Explains the Classic View of Justification Versus N. T. Wright’s View

November 6, 2007

Today I will take you further into Piper’s argument where he explains the long-held position, which Wright denies, that God cannot simply ‘forgive’ the guilty, but instead an exchange between guilt and righteousness must take place: An omniscient and just judge never “finds in favor” of a guilty defendant. He always vindicates the claim that [...]

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John Piper Challenges N. T. Wright on Justification

November 5, 2007

On Friday I introduced a series on John Piper’s response to N. T. Wright in The Future of Justification. We saw that to Piper the most critical difference between N. T. Wright and himself is that Wright does not believe that Christ’s righteousness is in any way transferred to our account. This is a vital, [...]

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Of Tone, Discernment, and the Charismatic Question

November 3, 2007

Phil Johnson has a second post answering my two-paragraph criticism of him. My schedule does not permit me to make a full reply as I am traveling on business. (All the posts you will see for the next few days were written before I left.) All I will say in reply, therefore, is this: Thank [...]

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John Piper, N. T. Wright, and Gracious Discernment

November 2, 2007

Bishop Tom Wright has long been the darling of many evangelicals. He is praised particularly for his work on the resurrection. But there is another side to Wright which is coming increasingly to the fore. His ability to woo evangelicals has, according to some observers, made it easy for him to subtly change some key [...]

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Mark Driscoll Firm, But Kind, About Joel Osteen on Prosperity Teaching

November 1, 2007

In the context of my ongoing debate with the fire-lovers about the best way to critique those from other churches, the following clip is most illuminating. Mark Driscoll is not known for being a weak feminist man. In this video he gives us a fantastic example of how to call out the errors of the [...]

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Applying Discernment – Far From Simple

October 30, 2007

If there is one thing that the discernment debate between the Pyromaniacs and myself has confirmed these past few days, it is surely that discernment is far from easy!! It’s a good thing Tim Challies has written a book on it. I really like the following extract from his book, which I think totally sums [...]

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Blogging, Discernment, and a Book by Tim Challies

October 25, 2007

UPDATE—February 19, 2008In January 2008, the following post was identified as the 2nd all-time most popular post with readers of this blog. The 3rd most-read post was “The ESV: A Bible Translation for Everyone?“ This post was an expression of some of my own concerns and frustrations about the blogging world I have come to [...]

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