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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 [...]

The problem with Christian Youthwork

The following is an essay which I wrote in my first year of a Christian Youth Ministry Degree. This was back in 2003. Were I to re-write it today I would do so differently but the essence of the message would be the same. This is essay demonstrates in a very raw manner the problem [...]

  

    "For Calvinism is just religion in its purity… Calvinism is, therefore, that type of thought in which there comes to its rights the truly religious attitude of utter dependence on God and humble trust in His mercy alone for salvation… This is why those who have caught a glimpse of these things, love with passion what men call “Calvinism,” sometimes with an air of contempt; and why they cling to it with enthusiasm."
    B.B. Warfield