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Neoliberalism

FREE The Gospel Coalition Network from The City NOW OPEN

April 17, 2009

I can exclusively announce that the all-new and FREE Gospel Coalition Network website opened just a few minutes ago. The kind people running it have offered blog readers like you the chance to be first in line to join.
If you already know what this is all about, then feel free to just follow one of [...]

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Avoiding the Despair Inherent in Open Theism

April 14, 2009

I once reviewed an excellent book which demolishes the neoliberal arguments of “0pen theism“|. Although it is not mentioned too often, I understand that these dangerous and heretical ideas are far from dead. I thought I would share the following conclusion from a theological journal article I found on my Logos Bible Software.
The [...]

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THE ATONEMENT DEBATE – Steve Chalke’s Further Arguments Against Penal Substitution

November 21, 2008

This is the last in my short series on Steve Chalke and The Atonement Debate. The previous posts in this series can be found by clicking on the links below:

Update on Steve Chalke and The Atonement Debate
Steve Chalke Confirms He Does Not Believe in Penal Substitution
Steve Chalke Argues Against Penal Substitutionary Atonement
Steve Chalke and Neglect [...]

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THE ATONEMENT DEBATE – Steve Chalke and Neglect of the Resurrection

November 20, 2008

In his arguments against penal substitutionary atonement (PSA), Chalke parodies what its advocates believe, claiming that, according to those who hold to PSA,
. . .it is Jesus’ death alone that becomes our “good news.” This approach reduces the whole gospel to a single sentence: “God is no longer angry with us because Jesus died in [...]

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THE ATONEMENT DEBATE – Steve Chalke Argues Against Penal Substitutionary Atonement

November 19, 2008

In his chapter in the recent book The Atonement Debate, Steve Chalke begins to argue against penal substitution (PSA). He starts in a surprising, and to me, a deeply concerning way. One of my major concerns about this whole debate is what a rejection of PSA does to our view of the Bible. The concept [...]

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THE ATONEMENT DEBATE – Steve Chalke Confirms He Does Not Believe in Penal Substitution

November 18, 2008

I do want to thank Steve Chalke for the honesty and openness in his contribution to the recent book, The Atonement Debate. He is very bold, and explains his position with far more clarity than I feel he has done before. Reading his chapter was worthwhile as there is much confusion about what Chalke really [...]

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Update on Steve Chalke and The Atonement Debate

November 17, 2008

Somehow I missed a book published earlier this year by Zondervan called The Atonement Debate. The book was described to me as a “cool-headed” approach to the whole debate on penal substitutionary atonement (PSA) that has been raging in evangelicalism since Steve Chalke popularized attempts to dismiss it as a form of “cosmic child abuse.” [...]

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Death By Love – Pastoral Application of the Atonement by Driscoll and Breshears

October 11, 2008

I want to introduce you to a very unusual book by Mark Driscoll and his writing buddy and professor, Gerry Breshears. I would go so far as to say that this is a unique book in that I have never seen anything quite like it.
If their first book together, Vintage Jesus, was a light cheerful [...]

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BOOK – How Much Does God Foreknow? by Steve Roy

April 3, 2007

There is little doubt as we continue a short look at the attributes of God, inspired by the Together for the Gospel Statement, that possibly the attribute which currently has the most controversy surrounding it is that of God’s foreknowledge.
For some neoliberals, it is preferable to think of a God who is every bit as [...]

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BLOGDOM TODAY – PC Birthday, WG06 Updates, Spurgeon

August 14, 2006

25TH BIRTHDAY FOR PC

WORSHIP GOD 06 – LATEST NEWS

SPURGEON STILL RELEVANT TODAY

Mohler Hails the 25th Anniversary of the PC
I am old enough to remember a time without a PC, and young enough to have had them as a child. I’m in that generation E that Mohler mentions!

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UPDATES FROM WORSHIPGOD06

Challies: Spiritual Eavesdropping
Initial WorshipGod06 reflections [...]

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BLOGDOM TODAY – The Atonement, Church Membership, and Godly Attitudes

August 11, 2006

PHIL JOHNSON CONCLUDES ATONEMENT SERIES

MATHEW SIMS ON THE BEAUTY OF SUBMISSION

MARK DEVER ON TRUE CHURCH MEMBERSHIP

MUHAMMED ALI AND MAHANEY ON HUMILITY

Phil Johnson Completes His Series on the Atonement from 2 Corinthians 5:21
This series should be compulsory reading, especially for all those neoliberals!
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“Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord” [...]

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Independence Day Reflections of a Returning British Christian Blogger and "Together on a Mission"

July 3, 2006

This is going to be a bit of a long and personal post and will meander through some personal news, and some reflections on this blog and blogging in general, before eventually getting to the subject of American Independence Day as seen through the eyes of a Brit! So bear with me . . .
I [...]

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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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Does penal substitution contribute to oppression?

October 12, 2005

I received this email today-
I read with interest your article on Steve Chalke and The lost message of Jesus? posted on Sunday November the 21st 2004.
I am currently doing a dissertation for my theology degree…..and came upon this article during some research. My dissertation is about the atonement theory and whether the theory of penal [...]

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