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Calvinism

Get over yourself, and get impressed with God – Institutes of the Christian Religion

November 25, 2011

Amazon’s Kindle website gives an interesting snapshot of books by sharing the post popular highlights by people using Kindle software to read a book. Generally you get a good impression of a book, and it’s most striking themes. This is certainly true with Calvin’s Institutes, where his desire to point us away from ourselves and [...]

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Popular posts: An Arminocalvinist spectrum or why it’s not so simple as Arminians vs Calvinists

August 22, 2011

During Adrian’s month away from the blog, he has hand-picked a selection of the most popular posts of the year so far to re-run. Today we feature, “An Arminocalvinist spectrum or why it’s not so simple as Arminians vs Calvinists”. Although technically written at the end of last year, this post on an arminocalvinist specturm [...]

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Giving Spurgeon the last word on Arminianism and Calvinism

December 14, 2010

At least for now it is time to call time on my short series on Arminianism and Calvinism. I hope you have enjoyed reading it, as I have certainly enjoyed some of the reactions it led to. I shared this quote a few years ago, and I thought it was an apt way to end: [...]

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How God used a murder to accomplish his purposes

December 13, 2010

This Jesus, delivered up according to ithe definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. (Acts 2:23–24). In our discussion about Calvinism and Arminianism perhaps one of the critical verses is Acts 2:23-24. In it we see both man’s responsibility and God’s sovereignty displayed. I thought I [...]

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Incarnatio: Responds to the Arminocalvinist spectrum

December 11, 2010

After being very gracious in his introductions, Matt O’Reilly says: First, it is quite helpful to point out the differences (or spectrum of beliefs) within the larger Calvinist and Arminian groups. There are things that Calvinists disagree on; the same is the case with Arminians as well. Different people mean different things by these labels. [...]

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An Arminocalvinist spectrum, or why it’s not so simple as Arminians vs Calvinists

December 10, 2010

I think when we come to the Arminian / Calvinist debate we must understand it is not simply a clear cut issue. When I meet other Christians and get to know them, the most important question I have is not whether they agree with every line of theology I have, and express that agreement with [...]

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Arminians vs Calvinists, daggers at dawn?

December 3, 2010

It need not always be this way. A while back I posted on the famous Wesley vs Simeon encounter which demonstrated that moderate Calvinists and moderate Arminians can in fact agree. If you are not aware of that incident, please do read about it. More recently, Luke picked up on my post which cheekily asked [...]

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Was Spurgeon an Arminocalvinist?

November 18, 2010

I found the following quote initially on Solo Christo , but thanks to Logos Bible Software I was able to find more context for it. It turns out that on some matters Spurgeon was not the rabid Calvinist some people think him to be: There has long been a great doctrinal discussion between the Calvinists [...]

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Young, reformed and charismatic? Come to St Louis January 2011

November 17, 2010

Do you live in the USA? Are you reformed, and theologically persuaded that the charismatic gifts continue? Perhaps like many you have not seen a positive model of how they can be expressed in a Bible-loving environment. Are you longing for a more dynamic experience of the Spirit’s power? If the above describes you, please [...]

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Living between the ESV Study Bible and the Spirit Filled Life Bible

October 20, 2010

A couple of weeks back, Tope preached a very impactful sermon on the need for us to go on reading God’s word. I have permission to share a short extract from that here, where Tope is in full flow urging people to study God’s word. A line in there made me glad and I know [...]

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One Day: a personal perspective on a summer read guest post by Purple Claire

August 27, 2010

Today’s blog comes from a new friend of mine, Purple Claire. Do go read her blog if you like her writing style: If I were the obsessive compulsive type – say, the kind of person who carries books around in their original Amazon packaging and shudders slightly when someone asks to borrow one, in case [...]

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New John Piper sermon: The Gospel and racial harmony

June 28, 2010

This past Sunday it was a joy to have John Piper with us at Jubilee Church in London. He seemed to be very much at home with us, and was clearly enjoying preaching one of the very few sermons he will preach this year. We benefitted greatly from this talk as Jubilee continues to aim [...]

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Ed Stetzer Interviews Terry Virgo of Newfrontiers

May 24, 2010

Terry Virgo founded Newfrontiers back in the mid 1970s. He was church planting before it was cool. He formed a missional network before the phrase was coined. There are now over 700 Newfrontiers churches spread out on every continent. Most of these began as house churches. But many of them have grown to become warehouse [...]

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A reformed charismatic in 1984

April 8, 2010

A very dapper looking Terry Virgo shows that as a young charismatic he was very much already reformed. This idea that reformed charismatics are a “new breed” is shown to be wrong by this video from Downs Bible Week alone. Now if only someone could find me some video of my dear departed friend and [...]

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Sam Storms On Pastoring As A Reformed Charismatic

February 11, 2010

In the following inteview, Sam and I speak about what it is like for him to pastor as a reformed charismatic. It is a very interesting exchange, and one I very much enjoyed filming:

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Spurgeon Atonement Illustration

August 28, 2009

This would win the wrath of many neo-liberals but I am sure that Piper would be glad to make room this Friday for the following quote I found on the pyromaniacs site from C.H. Spurgeon: Suppose,” said I, “you had killed some one. You were a murderer; you were condemned to die, and you deserved [...]

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T4G Statement – Article 8 – The Gospel of Grace

June 16, 2009

A long while ago I began a journey blogging through the Together for the Gospel Statement. I am sure that anyone who remotely remembers that I once did this would have been convinced that I would never get back to it. Today I surprised even myself by deciding that I really am determined to finish [...]

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Piper on Leading People Towards Reformed Theology

March 13, 2009

A few months back, Piper posted this excelent couple of paragraphs about the need to make GOD the central thing as we try to lead people to a shared understanding of theology. . . .a Reformed position mainly means, God is really big, really strong, really powerful, really knowledgeable, really wise, really great, really weighty, [...]

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Jonathan Edwards on Irresistible Grace

February 16, 2009

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The shocking nature of the doctrine that God’s grace is irresistible was hammered home to me by this quote. If this notion does not make you grateful to God that YOU should be so blessed by him, I don’t know what will. . . .the Calvinistical notion of sovereign and arbitrary grace, whereby some, with [...]

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Jonathan Edwards on Limited Atonement

February 13, 2009

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There is none of the five points of calvinism that are associated with more confusion than the one commonly called Limited Atonment or particular atonement. The problem comes because we do not tend to understand exactly what Calvinists have historically meant by this point, nor do we understand the alternatives on either side. Logic can [...]

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