Three Streams

Restoration, Revival and Reformation

Entries Tagged ‘Reformation’

Are evangelicals standing firm in the faith or losing their grip on the faith?

I think this quote from Spurgeon is very appropriate for today. These are not days in which whole hearted commitment to the scriptures are encouraged. Many evangelicals think they want revival but very few are willing to pay the price for true revival.
“We admire a man who was firm in the faith, say four hundred [...]

Young people and the gospel: Why a return to reformed theology is so essentially urgent

This article is found at the puritanboard
Why is Confessional, Reformed Theology Important?
The National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) has published its first major findings in Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, by Oxford University Press.
The book Soul Searching accurately describes the state of American Christianity today by describing the beliefs [...]

Puritanism, nonconformity, ‘justification by faith’ and the present day church of Christ

I have experienced an ever deepening and an ever increasing richness in my faith over the last week or so. I have been reading through John MacArthur’s daily bible, Calvin’s Institutes and a book by Martyn Lloyd Jones called From Puritanism to Nonconformity.
 Martyn Lloyd Jones
Martyn Lloyd jones covers the historical background leading up to the events [...]

Why Three Streams? An overview of the reformation, evangelicalism and the pentecostal and charismatic movements.

Overview
Three of the most significant movements in church history have been the reformation, the evangelical movements with their associated revivals and the pentecostal and charismatic movements.
Each of these movements rediscovered significant truths which deeply impacted the church yet each of them have not been without their own cultural and theological baggage.
The reformation was probably the most significant, the reformers rediscovered [...]

God wants his church back!

“Give me back my church” I think those were words that John Wimber heard from the Lord. This conviction was at the heart of John’s call to plant the Vineyard churches. The truth is that today God is still speaking to leaders and saying ‘Give me back my church’. The reason I say that God [...]


    "The source of my authority in this pulpit is not...my wisdom; nor is it a private revelation granted to me beyond the revelation of Scripture. My words have authority only insofar as they are the repetition, unfolding and proper application of the words of Scripture. I have authority only when I stand under authority. And our corporate symbol of that truth is the sound of your Bibles opening to the text. My deep conviction about preaching is that a pastor must show the people that what he is saying was already said or implied in the Bible. If it cannot be shown it has no special authority."
    John Piper