Great post from Adrian Warnock…
This week Terry Virgo shared a couple of interesting anecdotes about Piper, Lloyd-Jones, and the Holy Spirit. This made me think that I should restart “Piper Fridays” here on the blog. So, here is a quote from a Piper sermon that refers to something else the Doctor said about the baptism [...]
Notes on Article Thirteen from Kim Riddlebarger…
Article 13: The Fruit of This Assurance
In their awareness and assurance of this election God’s children daily find greater cause to humble themselves before God, to adore the fathomless depth of his mercies, to cleanse themselves, and to give fervent love in return to him who first so greatly [...]
Justin Taylor responds to Rick Love…
Rick Love is the former International Director for Frontiers, an “international non-profit organization, recruiting, sending and serving teams of ordinary people for long-term service to the communities of the Muslim world.” He is presently on sabbatical as a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Yale Reconciliation Program.Rick and I have enjoyed [...]
Tony Jones, commenting at Jesus Creed:
Sadly, this is happening more and more to me, and I continue to offer the same challenge: Will someone please show me where, in print, I have said something that is outside of classic, historic orthodoxy. I may not be evangelical, as it’s been defined over the past 150 years, [...]
“God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” Romans 5:5
“The Comforter gives a sweet and plentiful evidence and persuasion of the love of God to us, such as the soul is taken, delighted, satiated withal. This is his work, and he doth it effectually. To [...]
More from Brett Harris on Understanding Small Hard Things…
It is not extremely difficult for us to convince ourselves that the faithful practice of doing small, hard things should be valued as vital preparation for future achievements. It is, however, much harder to view them as significant in and of themselves. Can we assign meaning to [...]
“We are often told that we limit the atonement of Christ, because we say that Christ has not made satisfaction for all men, or all men would be saved. Now, our reply to this is that, on the other hand, our opponents limit it, we do not. The Arminians say, Christ died for all men. [...]
A commentary by Russell D. Moore…
Below is a copy of a memo that I sent out to all of our students and faculty here in the School of Theology at The Southern Baptist Thelogical Seminary about our Theology Bleeds Great Commission emphasis. Next week I will be posting a five-part series on a theology of [...]
“Faith is not our saviour. It was not faith that was born at Bethlehem and died on Golgotha for us. It was not faith that loved us, and gave itself for us; that bore our sins in its own body on the tree; that died and rose again for our sins. Faith is one thing, [...]
From The ChristianPost…
“Who cares what the emerging church is doing,” he stressed. “It’s a junk drawer category for all kinds of different people. It’s highly confusing. I’m not even sure that the description is any more of benefit or use.”
Rather than labeling Mars Hill as an emerging church, he calls it a Christian church and [...]
