Spurgeon on The Doctrines of Grace

“I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.”
 

 

The Most Attacked Doctrine in the Christian faith

Paul Washer on Total Depravity

Review of Roger Olsen’s “Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities”

from Reformation 21, by Dr. Carl Trueman, Academic Dean, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA
“……the heavy didactic tone of the book comes over at times as rather patronizing; but if you can cope with this and are also aware of the serious mistakes in Olson’s understanding of the scholarship on seventeenth century thought, this is a [...]

Original Sin-Depravity Infects Everyone

by J.I. Packer (from Concise Theology)

“Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me” (Ps. 51:5)
Scripture diagnoses sin as a universal deformity of human nature, found at every point in every person (1 Kings 8:46; Rom. 3:9-23; 7:18; 1 John 1:8-10). Both Testaments have names for it that display its [...]

Founders-Steve Gaines revives the caricatures of Calvinism

Dr. Thomas Ascol, Director of Founders Ministries, shares on his blog site the gross caricatures made toward the reformed faith, and sadly in one instance, by another prominent Southern Baptist pastor. Dr. Steve Gaines, pastor at Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, Tennessee (Memphis) made some outrageous statements concerning the Doctrines of Grace during a chapel message at Criswell [...]

Amazing Grace: The History & Theology of Calvinism

I think Amazing Grace: The History & Theology of Calvinism  is one of the most important teaching presentations today. Eric Holmberg, Founder and Director of The Apologetics Group, will be my guest on The Mike Corley Program today and we will discuss his ministry and this incredible DVD and the other great resources available through TAG. [...]

R. Scott Clark on Limited Atonement

If one accepts that Jesus died as a propitiatory substitute for all his people, there are really only two alternatives, definite atonement or absolute (total) universalism. Either he saved everyone who ever lived, or he saved all those whom he loved.
As R. B. Kuiper said, “From the viewpoint of Scripture it is difficult to take [...]

Can an Unbeliever Make a Decision to Be Saved?

This is a clip from the DVD Amazing Grace, The History and Theology of Calvinism, produced by The Apologetics Group.

Lamenting Calvinism in the SBC?

The issue covered in a recent Baptist Press article really got my blood pressure up. Timmy Bristerwrote a wonderful commentary on the article. The BP story told of a “conference” of 15 Southern Baptist evangelists who met to lament “the growth of Calvinism and the rise of a Willow Creek-style of non-confrontational evangelism within Southern [...]

Calvinism and the SBC

Our friend Timmmy Brister has posted two articles regarding Calvinism in the Southern Baptist Convention at his website Provocations and Pantings. One article is a response to remarks made by SBC president Frank Page in an article in Christianity Today. In his post, Timmy writes;
“  Of course, with Page’s argument, we are led to believe that what the Founders of the SBC believed [...]