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 [...]

Dr. Tom Ascol-John 3:16 Conference…Take 2

from Founders Ministries Blog
Diane Lytle alerted me in a comment that Dr. Steve Lemke has explained the purpose of the announced John 3:16 conference coming up this fall in Woodstock, Georgia. Dr. Lemke writes,
“This conference is intended as a majoritarian Southern Baptist response to the “Building Bridges” and “Together for the Gospel” conferences. The announcement [...]

R.C. Sproul-Regeneration Preceeds Faith

“No man has the power to raise himself from spiritual death. Divine assistance is necessary. This grace, according to Rome, comes in the form of what is called prevenient grace. “Prevenient” means that which comes from something else. Rome adds to this prevenient grace the requirement that we must “cooperate with it and assent to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Christmas Sola by Eric Landry

from Modern Reformation magazine
“It is fitting that we end the year, looking forward to the Christmas holiday, with an issue on soli Deo gloria. Not only do the familiar Christmas carols and stories of angel voices singing “glory” to the Lord remind us of our celebration of the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, but the [...]

The whipping boy takes another hit….

Timmy Brister was a guest on my radio program a while back and made the statement that Calvinism is “the whipping boy of the SBC (the Southern Baptist Convention)”. He continues his thoughts and shares new links at his website at www.timmybrister.com in a post entitled Setting the Record Straight About SBC Bridge Burning.
In this post [...]

Truth: The Absolute Necessity for Reformation…recovering sola scriptura in the proclamation of the gospel

by Steve Camp, CamponThis  
Reformation means: to right the wrong; to remedy error; to be returning to a rightful course; to rescue from erroneousness. The Greek word rendered reformation (diorphosis) means emendation, improvement, reform. It refers to putting a thing back in correct or upright condition; making it better; or raising up and restoring that which [...]