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April 2023

April 24, 2023

Balancing God’s Power and Love when life hurts – Introducing the Suffering Theological Spectrum co-authored with ChatGPT

Are you struggling to make sense of suffering in the world and wondering about God's...

February 2014

February 11, 2014

God’s Not Dead: The Movie, and a new friend

It seems clear to me that 2014 is going to go down as the year...

February 07, 2014

James White vs Michael Brown: Predestination Debate on European Christian TV

Another thing I missed last month was James White and Michael Brown appearing on Revelation...

December 2013

December 03, 2013

John Piper’s Five Points: towards a deeper experience of God’s grace

Piper explains in this short video why he has written his latest short book on...

November 2012

November 23, 2012

Chinese Calvinism flourishes

The Guardian has a fascinating report on the incredible progress of the Chinese Church, and...

October 2012

October 24, 2012

What is an Evangelical?

In this post, I offer a meaning of Evangelical, but this must be read in...

November 2011

November 25, 2011

Get over yourself, and get impressed with God – Institutes of the Christian Religion

Amazon's Kindle website gives an interesting snapshot of books by sharing the post popular highlights...

August 2011

August 22, 2011

During Adrian's month away from the blog, he has hand-picked a selection of the most...

December 2010

December 14, 2010

Giving Spurgeon the last word on Arminianism and Calvinism

At least for now it is time to call time on my short series on...

December 13, 2010

How God used a murder to accomplish his purposes

This Jesus, delivered up according to ithe definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified...

December 11, 2010

Incarnatio: Responds to the Arminocalvinist spectrum

After being very gracious in his introductions, Matt O'Reilly says: First, it is quite helpful...

December 10, 2010

Arminians vs Calvinists a spectrum

In this post I outline an Arminocalvinist spectrum, and explain why it's not so simple...

December 03, 2010

Arminians vs Calvinists, daggers at dawn?

It need not always be this way. A while back I posted on the famous...

November 2010

November 18, 2010

Was Spurgeon an Arminocalvinist?

I found the following quote initially on Solo Christo , but thanks to Logos Bible...

November 17, 2010

Young, reformed and charismatic? Come to St Louis January 2011

Do you live in the USA? Are you reformed, and theologically persuaded that the charismatic...

October 2010

October 20, 2010

Living between the ESV Study Bible and the Spirit Filled Life Bible

A couple of weeks back, Tope preached a very impactful sermon on the need for...

August 2010

August 27, 2010

One Day: a personal perspective on a summer read guest post by Purple Claire

Today's blog comes from a new friend of mine, Purple Claire. Do go read her...

June 2010

June 28, 2010

New John Piper sermon: The Gospel and racial harmony

This past Sunday it was a joy to have John Piper with us at Jubilee...

May 2010

May 24, 2010

Ed Stetzer Interviews Terry Virgo of Newfrontiers

Terry Virgo founded Newfrontiers back in the mid 1970s. He was church planting before it...

April 2010

April 08, 2010

A reformed charismatic in 1984

A very dapper looking Terry Virgo shows that as a young charismatic he was very...

February 2010

February 11, 2010

Sam Storms On Pastoring As A Reformed Charismatic

In the following interview, Sam and I speak about what it is like for him...

August 2009

August 28, 2009

Spurgeon Atonement Illustration

This would win the wrath of many neo-liberals but I am sure that Piper would...

June 2009

June 16, 2009

T4G Statement – Article 8 – The Gospel of Grace

A long while ago I began a journey blogging through the Together for the Gospel...

March 2009

March 13, 2009

Piper on Leading People Towards Reformed Theology

A few months back, Piper posted this excelent couple of paragraphs about the need to...

February 2009

February 16, 2009

Jonathan Edwards on Irresistible Grace

The shocking nature of the doctrine that God's grace is irresistible was hammered home to...

February 13, 2009

Jonathan Edwards on Limited Atonement

There is none of the five points of calvinism that are associated with more confusion...

February 09, 2009

Jonathan Edwards on Total Depravity

I am planning on sharing some short quotes from Jonathan Edwards on the five points...

October 2008

October 23, 2008

One Point Calvinism

According to J. I. Packer, Calvinism's five points really boil down to one significant claim...

September 2008

September 05, 2008

SERMON – A Song Of Hope – Psalm 121

On the 24th of August, I preached a sermon at Jubilee during our summer series...

January 2008

January 29, 2008

10th Most Read Post – I Don't Want Balance! I Want It All!

We have now arrived at the countdown of the top ten most popular posts of...