oday marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jean Cauvin, who we know as John Calvin.
Calvinism is kind of a dirty word these days, at least amongst so-called mainline Protestant denominations. They just hate the notion that mankind is not in charge, that God chooses, ultimately, who amongst us will be saved, [...]
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God’s sovereignty
Posted in Calvinism, apologetics on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Works for me
Posted in Calvinism, apologetics on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Although I attend a Baptist church, I’m probably a Calvinist. I’ve got a Puritan heart. Not that I’m pure, mind ye. Just that I take my Reformation neat, none of that proto-Catholic stuff of the Anglicans who call themselves Protestants. How do I know I’m [...]
John 6:44
Posted in Bible, Calvinism on May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I tend to over-think things. Those things include citations from Scripture, which I (usually) insist need to be carefully weighed in context, to avoid accepting things that are logically not possible.
Yes, yes, with God all things are possible. But, contra to many atheists, God is never illogical; [...]
God is logical; God is beyond logic
Posted in Calvinism, apologetics on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One definition of insanity might be when we simultaneously hold two mutually incompatible ideas to be true. This is at the heart of being a Spirit-led Calvinist.
But there is a rather large question: If God is sovereign, and controls all, how can He hold us to account for our actions? Alternate [...]
A little Calvinism, if you please
Posted in Calvinism, apologetics on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In his recent essay, How the Lord of Life Gives Life, John Piper gives us an answer to the basic question: since we are all dead in our sin, how is it that some are called to be in the light of God’s Son, and some are not?
This gets to the heart of the [...]
“fully multicultural”
Posted in Calvinism, Churches, ecumenicism on November 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is more than a little disturbing. We are told of a Christian who may not be welcome as a teacher at Calvin College because she does not, according the this Washington Post article, “attend a congregation with ties to the Christian Reformed Church.”
Fair enough. Calvin College’s name has to count for something, [...]
Total depravity
Posted in Calvinism on June 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the pillars of Calvinism is the total depravity of man. The Cliff’s Notes version of Calvinism is the acronym TULIP, in which the “T” is for total depravity. When I first came upon this expression, I thought of a drooling, knuckle-dragging troglodyte who ate small children after raping elderly women. Not quite.
The cause [...]
