This Week in Calvinism - July 29, 2011

• John Calvin: Recommended reading, courtesy of Ligonier Ministries.
  
  
• Doug Wilson on Calvinism and conspiracy.
  
  
• What would you do if your Southern Baptist pastor became a Calvinist?
  
  
• "Tweeting is to preaching what the book of Proverbs is to the book of Romans."
  
  
• John Piper addresses law students.
  
  
• What will it cost you to register for the Truth Matters Bible Conference with John MacArthur? Nothing.
  
  
• John R. W. Stott -- preacher, author, and theologian -- passes away at the age 90.
  
  
• Tim Challies, in honor of John Stott, announces the next book in his Reading Classics Together series: The Cross of Christ.
  
  
• 10 memorable quotes from Stott.

1 Timothy 4:4-5(?)

Or perhaps Proverbs 15:29?



(via St. Eutychus)

This Week in Calvinism - July 22, 2011

• I didn't know this, but "Calvinists, in a nutshell, believe that those who have ills (sickness, lost job, whatever) 'have it coming to them.'" Forget the TULIP. This is a much more concise description of our theology.
  
  
• I suppose J. C. Thibodaux, given his position, would have to say that Christ's sacrifice did indeed atone for the sins of every man.
  
  
• Calvinism is not merely a soteriology.
  
  
• The message of the resurging Calvinism.
  
  
• Ex-Preacher Man prefers the original KJV because it doesn't use Calvinistic words like "sovereign" or "sovereignty."
  
  
• Help your boys become Christian men.
  
  
• Primary sources on the two wills of God.
  
  
• It's too late to send presents, but today's my birthday. Just thought you might like to know.

Shake-Up at Sovereign Grace: An Argument for Cessationism?

Jesse Johnson, a pastor and elder at Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, weighs in on the C. J. Mahaney fiasco: "Not only is this whole ordeal an argument for the autonomy of the local church, but also for cessationism."

Read the insightful post in its entirety here.

This Week in Calvinism - July 15, 2011

• An excerpt from the book Against Calvinism, by Jeff Peterson, Eddie Eddings, and Jon Cardwell.
  
  
• In the wake of C. J. Mahaney's leave of absence, Joshua Harris bids farewell to Sovereign Grace Ministries.
  
  
• It seems neo-Confederate Calvinists are the latest threat to the Union.
  
  
• The what and why of hyper-Calvinism.
  
  
• One danger of Calvinism: pride, in particular, "proud, combative, and caustic Calvinists."

Bill Maher the "Apatheist"

Bill Maher states that he's an "apatheist" (an apathetic atheist), someone who doesn't waste his time thinking about God or religion. This is interesting, considering he has bothered to come up with a term to describe his non-belief in God, and that he put out a feature-length film devoted entirely to making a mockery of religion.

Maher certainly lives up to the description presented in Proverbs 21:24.

This Week in Calvinism - July 8, 2011

• Finally, at long last, someone uses scripture to refute Calvinism! OK, not really: "Blah, blah, blah, here are a few isolated verses refuting Calvinism, blah, blah, blah, Calvinists are dominionists, blah, blah, blah, Servetus, blah, blah, blah, Spurgeon wasn't really a Calvinist, blah, blah, blah," and so on.
  
  
• Did you know that America's "national religion, an ugly mix of Calvinism and evangelical Christianity, is the ultimate expression of greed and manifestation of death wishes which destroys any human love for the poor and down-trodden"? I didn't either.
  
  
• A debate between Arminian Dr. Phil Fernandes and Calvinist Chris Comis.
  
  
• Southern Baptists and Calvinism: Can't we all just get along?
  
  
• Amid accusations from former leaders at Sovereign Grace, C. J. Mahaney takes a leave of absence.
  
  
• Two tensions in Jonathan Edwards's view of history.

This Week in Calvinism - July 1, 2011

• Is this where neo-Calvinism leads?
  
  
• All Christians should be engaged in the cause of world missions.
  
  
• Tim Challies reviews Trevin Wax's book Counterfeit Gospels: Discovering the Good News in a World of False Hope.
  
  
• Tim Challies on what we did well during that whole Rob Bell fiasco.
  
  
• Arminius's doctrine of grace.
  
  
• Can there be union between those who believe in the deity of Christ and those who deny it? No.

Redefining Words

Hey, why not go all the way?

(Reposted from my blog White Noise.)

New York Legalizes Something That Doesn't Exist

It's official. The state of New York has legalized "gay marriage":

Same-sex marriage is now legal in New York after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that was narrowly passed by state lawmakers Friday, handing activists a breakthrough victory in the state where the gay rights movement was born. ...

... Gay rights advocates are hoping the vote will galvanize the movement around the country and help it regain momentum after an almost identical bill was defeated here in 2009 and similar measures failed in 2010 in New Jersey and this year in Maryland and Rhode Island.

What's next? Legalizing square circles?

This Week in Calvinism - June 24, 2011

• A revival of Calvinism: an interview with Iain Murray.
  
  
• 48 hours in Geneva.
  
  
• Seth discusses five bad arguments against Calvinism.
  
  
• Tim Challies interviews Dr. Ken Stewart, author of Ten Myths About Calvinism: Recovering the Breadth of the Reformed Tradition.
  
  
• John Piper explains why this year's Desiring God National Conference may be the most strategic one ever held.

This Week in Calvinism - June 17, 2011

• Was Luther a Calvinist?
  
  
• Confessional Calvinism.
  
  
• What exactly is the "John Piper Fallacy" in Romans 9?
  
  
• How would you define terms like ordain, decree, or author?
  
  
• The Lone Calvinist rides again!
  
  
• Who's responsible for clouding men's minds with teachings of election and limited atonement? Who could it possibly be? Oh, I don't know. Could it be...SATAN?!

This Week in Calvinism - June 10, 2011

• Roger Olson argues that there is no middle ground between Calvinism and Arminianism. "In fact," he says, "Arminianism IS the middle ground between Calvinism and Semi-Pelagianism!"
  
  
• Paul Chitwood, recently elected as executive director-treasurer of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, thinks the issue of Calvinism is "needlessly a point of controversy."
  
  
• God and golf: Where every shot, shank, and duff are his will.
  
  
• Spurgeon on the folly of preaching too long.
  
  
• Is God a Christian? Al Mohler reviews the new book from R. Kirby Godsey.
  
  
• James McDonald believes congregational church government is from Satan.

Lamentations 5:12

This Week in Calvinism - Jne 3, 2011

• Join in celebrating the life of John Calvin.
  
  
• Frank Turk writes an open letter to John Piper about Piper's interview with Rick Warren.
  
  
• Les Puryear is a Calvinist no more.
  
  
• Scottish theologian John Murray on the marvel of our adoption.
  
  
• Thomas Booher on the importance of Calvinism in Christianity.