Theology That Bites Back
Steven Wedgeworth was kind enough to respond to my recent post on concupiscence, doing so here. As was true when I read his chapter in Ruined Sinners to Reclaim, I agreed with a lot of this response also. Two places where I would still differ. I don’t think that my (possible) difference with John Owen …
Don’t Miss This Promo: Suspended Open Road: And more here. Basic Restaurant Duties: A Song I Really Like for Some Reason: Funny How That Works: HT: Samuel Cherubin: And Another Podcast Also: As it appears that some people are wanting to reheat the Federal Vision stuff, these two volumes contain all my blog posts on …
“You know, believe what God said faith. The verb is not the direct object. If God tells one man to hop on his right foot and another man to hop on his left foot, they both obey when they believe Him and do what He says. Same faith, different feet.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 730.
Introduction: I was recently sent a copy of Ruined Sinners to Reclaim , a hefty book dedicated to a thorough treatment of total depravity. It looks marvelous. If you have any friends who are ...
“Traditional Calvinists take Romans. 9 straight up and use their exegetical funny business on John 15. Arminians take John 15 straight up and pull the funny business in Romans 9. FV Calvinists try to take both Romans 9 and John 15 straight up. I was talking to an Arminian gentleman one time (after all this FV business started), and he said something like, ‘Hey! What are you doing messing around with our verses?’”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 728
Letter to the Editor: Dan Phillips recently posted this quote, which I wholeheartedly agree with: "Have you really got your arms around the fact that you will never, ever have a valid ...
“This, despite Westminster’s insistence that saving faith is ‘no dead faith,” which sounds like living faith to me.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, p. 725
Introduction: I read and greatly appreciated Timon's engagement with the point I made on Tucker regarding my belief that we are past the point of political solutions. I agree with a lot of what ...
Ascension Sunday 2024 Sermon Video Introduction: What we must learn how to stop doing is the bad habit of dividing the world up into separate compartments. Every aspect of our being—emotional, ...
“When God gives an infant a new heart, the child does not start clamoring for his Berkof. But that heart will always be fundamentally submissive and tractable to the truth as it comes to him. The child doesn’t have to go an ‘do’ notitia in order to be saving faith, but it will always exhibit the fruit of notitia when that is the appropriate response.”
The Auburn Avenue Chronicles Vol. 2, pp. 723-724
