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• Does God Hate Sinners?

  
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  In their zeal to defend God’s sovereignty many blogists have joined renowned Calvinists in their campaign against sinners by categorically declaring that Christians should hate non-believers (non-elect sinners). Before you read this article I suggest that you first read and open letter John Pedersen wrote to one of ...
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• Baptists seek compromise over Calvinisim: The Church of England Newspaper, June 9, 2013, p 7.

  
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  In a bid to forestall a theological civil war within America’s largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, a task force has released a seven page report on Calvinism urging tolerance of competing views on election. “We affirm that, from the very beginning of our denominational life, ...
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• A great conversation about vocation

  
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  A Lutheran, a Calvinist, and  a Baptist walk into a bar. . . and start talking about vocation.  Well, not really.  The Baptist would not go into a bar, and in this case there is no Baptist.  I’d describe the Liberate folks (a ministry of Tullian Tchividjian) as Lutheran-influenced evangelicals.  But this ...
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• The New City Catechism: Analysis Part 10

  
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  The means of grace Heidelberg Catechism: Q65: Since then we are made partakers of Christ and all his benefits by faith only, whence does this faith proceed? A: From the Holy Ghost, who works faith in our hearts by the preaching of the gospel, and confirms it by the use of the sacraments. Q116: Why is prayer necessary ...
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• The New City Catechism: Analysis Part 9

  
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  The Holy Spirit New City Catechism: Q36: What do we believe about the Holy Spirit? A: That he is God, coeternal with the Father and the Son, and that God grants him irrevocably to all who believe. Q37: How does the Holy Spirit help us? A: The Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin, comforts us, guides us, gives us ...
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• The New City Catechism: Analysis Part 8

  
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  Justification, Sanctification and the various benefits of salvation Heidelberg Catechism: Q56: What believest thou concerning "the forgiveness of sins"? A: That God, for the sake of Christs satisfaction, will no more remember my sins, neither my corrupt nature, against which I have to struggle all my life long; but ...
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• The Gutless, False Gospel Of The Dangerously Influential New Calvinist Tim Keller

  
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  Tim Keller thinks God may have a ‘trap door’ to heaven ?   Dr. Paul M. Elliott of  Teaching the Word Ministries: Part 1. Tim Keller: Dangerously Influential Part 2. Tim Keller’s Gutless ‘Gospel’ Part 3. Tim Keller’s False Gospel: Changing Both the Method and the Message Part 4 Tim ...
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• Wheat and Chaff

  
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  Alan Jacobs speculates on what it means (or doesn’t, as the case may be) to be a conservative: I am not and never have been a Republican. I feel roughly as alienated from that party as I do from the Democratic Party. I hold a number of political views that strong-minded Republicans typically find appalling: I ...
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• The History of Christianity in 25 Objects: Calvins Chair

  
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  St. Pierre Cathedral in Geneva, Switzerland was the work of Arducius de Faucigny, the prince-bishop of the Diocese of Geneva. The buildings earliest construction dates from the 12th century, but wars, fires, renovations and additions have often changed its look and shape. Though today it is the home of a congregation ...
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• The New City Catechism: Analysis Part 7

  
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  Salvation, Unbelief and Saving Faith Heidelberg Catechism: Q10: Will God suffer such disobedience and rebellion to go unpunished? Answer: By no means; but is terribly displeased with our original as well as actual sins; and will punish them in his just judgment temporally and eternally, as he has declared, "Cursed is ...
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• Southern Baptists and Calvinism

  
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  At the recently concluded Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), a 19-member team was commissioned to look into Calvinism with the SBC (see here ).  The results were positive, with the conclusion being up to individual Southern Baptists to decide whether they want to stay and cooperate. In the end this intramural ...
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• Religion journalists save the day for young scribes

  
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  Last night I had the privilege of moderating a panel discussion for The Fund for American Studies’ Institute on Political Journalism. This summer program gives students internships at media organizations, coursework in politics and economics, and other features (such as mentors to guide you as you start your ...
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• Have You any Woolley?

  
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  Yes sir, yes sir, three posts full! (and probably more) The OPC is a bit of a black sheep of a denomination, so I guess it should be no surprise it would have some Woolley, but I had never heard of him, probably because he didn’t publish much (book-wise). But in the opening article of  Confident of Better Things , ...
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• Wednesday Link List

  
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  Copyright © 2011 The Zondervan Corporation Wednesday List Lynx — two, actually Time for another round of Christian blog and news links for the whole family. In the past we would often begin and end here with cartoons, but the whole question of fair use gets muddy sometimes, especially when humor meets ...
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• The gospel and the coalition of silence

  
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  The silence from Evangelical leaders regarding the issue of child sexual abuse within the Church was deafening and spoke volumes. Why no statements about the horrors of child sexual abuse and the apparent horrors of the abuse that occurred in these two churches? Why no statements from Evangelical leaders that express ...
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• Gods sovereignty and "metaphysical distanciation"

  
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  A charge Cheung makes against the idea that God is not the author of sin is that such makes him to be not sovereign. In his book The Author of Sin [Vincent Cheung, The Author of Sin (Boston, MA: Vincent Cheung, 2005)], Cheung makes the following statements: I affirm the meaningfulness of so-called "second causes" only ...
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• Calvinism debate shakes up Southern Baptist Convention

  
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  Just how much do you know about Calvinism? Former GetReligionista and current Religion News Service national correspondent Sarah Pulliam Bailey developed a short quiz to gauge readers’ knowledge: See if your score is predestined, or if you have free will to determine your score. Go ahead. Take the quiz. I scored — ...
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• Calvinist Doctrinal Diatribe Continues Online

  
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  In the first place, Calvinistic Christianity is nothing more and nothing less than biblical Christianity. It follows, then, that the future of Christianity itself is bound up in the fortunes of Calvinism… from the website Founders.org This week I got an email which contained the following: ...
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• Southern Baptist panel on Calvinism: We can work it out

  
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  Pin ItA Southern Baptist advisory group has come up with boundary markers...
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• The Docrines of Grace in an Unexpected Place

  
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  It was a great joy to be at the Evangelical Library in London last Monday for the 2013 Annual Lecture. It was very encouraging on all fronts. A crowd of may be as many as fifty gathered. The lecture was a blessing in that it was given not only by an expert in his field (the speaker Mark Stevenson completes his PhD in ...
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