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Entries for May, 2009

Calvin on The Role of Scripture

It always amazes me how many evangelical believers I talk to who seem to be uncertain about the role in which God intends scripture to play in the Christian’s life.  Time and time again, I encounter believers within the evangelical and charismatic movements who are convinced that we cannot speak of God in absolute terms. Most of these [...]

“If Calvinism is True, Why Evangelize?”


The Forgotten Spurgeon: Speaks to Today’s Church

“Yet one does not have to look long at the prevailing Christianity of the 1850’s to observe some signs that are hardly akin to what we find in the New Testament- it was too fashionable, too respectable, too much at peace with the world. It was as though such texts as ‘the whole world lieth [...]


    "Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it. To me, it is one of the sweetest and most blessed truths in the whole of revelation, and those who are afraid of it are so because they do not understand it. If they could but know that the Lord had chosen them, it would make their hearts dance for joy."
    C.H. Spurgeon