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• Doctrine of Salvation: Christ’s Atonement

  
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  Please see the last post on the series, “Doctrine of Salvation,”  Election Before I explain to you the various views on the atonement, it is important to keep in mind that one’s understanding of the doctrine of God, Christ, man, sin, and salvation will influence or determine one’s understanding of the ...
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• Doubting Calvinists

  
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  No, I did not say “Doubting Calvinism.” Although I am a master of typos, this blog is about something different. First, every reader needs to know that I am a Calvinist. And while the “doctrines of grace” are not the most important issues in theology, I believe in them very deeply and find that they ...
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• The Boundaries of Evangelicalism

  
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  As I survey the contemporary church, one of my gravest concerns is the power and prevalence of mysticism. It appears in pulpits, books, and conversation. It is at the heart of Sarah Young’s bestselling Jesus Calling , it is in all the much-loved books by John Eldredge, it fills the pages of so many books on ...
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• spurgeon v. osteen

  
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• the gospel

  
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  Doug Wilson on the Gospel, Church, World:IntroductionOur goal in this life, and our goal as a congregation, ought to be three-fold—we should want to get the gospel straight, we should want to get the church right, and we should want to get the world restored. Let’s walk through it in that order.The Text:“But ye ...
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• The Covenant of Grace

  
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  The Reformation Theology sites posts a great excerpt on the Covenant of Grace from Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology . Here’s how it begins . . . 1. Essential Elements. When man failed to obtain the blessing offered in the covenant of works, it was necessary for God to establish another means, one by which ...
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• So Much Anger Over the Wrath of God

  
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  Bosco Peters’ latest post on his Liturgy website is a great example of a liberal attack on the doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement (PSA), not just for the substance but the manner in which the doctrine is attacked. At our recent synod meeting, one of the songs was Stuart Townend and Keith Getty’s  ...
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• The Terrors of Conscience

  
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  The Reformed Traveler has an excellent post explaining the difference between the “terrors of conscience,” which is brought about by the Law, and true sorrow over sin, which comes through the gospel. Here’s how it begins: Those who read up on the history of revivals often get fascinated by the subject of the ...
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• central and saving

  
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  I totally agree with the following by Sam Storms:One often hears that penal substitution is merely one model or theory of the atonement and thus should not be elevated as central to defining the way in which we are saved and reconciled to God.One author appeals to an analogy with golf. Just as Phil Mickelson, for ...
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• secular salvation

  
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  For my friends judging those that judge ...The Secular Salvation Story by Kevin DeYoung ...We all live by some meta-narrative. We can’t help but try to make sense of our lives. We don’t just live life or experience reality, we constantly interpret it.We all believe in a salvation story.The Christian message of ...
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• free will

  
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  John Calvin in The Institutes of the Christian Religion:No one gives himself freely and willingly to God’s service unless, having tasted his fatherly love, he is drawn to love and worship him in return.(via)
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• 221 words

  
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  D.A. Carson in For Such a Time as This:God is the sovereign, transcendent and personal God who has made the universe, including us, his image-bearers. Our misery lies in our rebellion, our alienation from God, which, despite his forbearance, attracts his implacable wrath. But God, precisely because love is of the ...
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• what is freedom

  
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  Im not sure I can repost about freedom too much. Here is my last post. The below is by Chris Brauns. Similar and worth repeating ...Why not just leave the dolphins on the beach? Has anyone asked that question? Isn’t it awfully presumptuous for human beings to forcibly throw dolphins into the water?You may recall ...
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• substitution

  
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  John Stott in The Cross of Christ:The concept of substitution may be said to lie at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.Man asserts himself against God and puts himself where only God ...
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• Blood Work

  
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  Christianity is a bloody faith. It is a bloody faith because it is the faith of sinful people and the Bible tells us that sin requires blood. For sin to be forgiven, for sinful people to be made right with God, there must be a payment of blood. That payment was made by Jesus Christ on a blood-soaked cross and through ...
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• Bultmann on Jesus, Paul, and Existential Christology

  
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  As I teach undergraduates, I continue to pile up examples of folks for whom basic Christian theological convictions seem like nothing more than mind games. For instance: classical christology, with its talk of natures and hypostases and such, seems more like a mildly interesting word-game at best, rather than the sort ...
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• All Conversions are Not Equal (Part I)

  
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  There was a funny scene in an otherwise forgettable movie (and that’s not so much a criticism as a confession that I actually can’t remember what it was) in which a couple of average white Americans pretending to be renowned Japanese scientists – complete with Japanese name tags –  introduced themselves to ...
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• W.G.T. Shedd on the Importance of Preaching and Teaching on the Reality of Hell

  
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  Preaching that dwells on or even mentions the reality of hell and eternal punishment has fallen into disfavor these days, but in his The Doctine of Endless Punishment, Reformed Theologian W.G.T. Shedd pointed out why we must continue to preach on hell regardless of public opinion. Among them we list these three ...
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• Doctrine of Salvation: Election

  
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  For the first post of this Doctrine of Salvation series, please see the first post:  Summary of the Doctrine of Salvation A good definition can be as follows: God’s sovereign selection of certain sinners for salvation before the foundation of the world that is not based on any human merit. Before we get into the ...
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