Monthly Archives: September 2017
The Necessity of Effectual Calling (Or: We Need a Miracle!)
Originally posted on The Reformed Reader:
This is a very helpful discussion of effectual calling/regeneration: If you believe that the natural state of human beings today is that of moral and spiritual neutrality, so that they can do good or…
Love the Sinner as You Love Your Sinful Self?
BY NICK BATZIG, http://www.reformation.org Over the past week, I’ve seen more appeals to the second half of Matthew 22:39 than I’ve seen artist postcards in a hipster coffee shop. “Love your neighbor as yourself” (which is the second greatest command, … Continue reading
What are we, that we should think to stand before him, at whose rebuke the earth trembles, and before whom the rocks are thrown down?
Originally posted on Reformedontheweb's Blog:
Their foot shall slide in due time (Deut. Xxxii. 35). The observation from the words that I would now insist upon is this. “There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment…
Election, Grace, and Love (Van Dixhoorn)
Originally posted on The Reformed Reader:
The Westminster Confession says this of the elect: “[God] chose them out of his free grace and love alone, not because he foresaw faith, or good works, or perseverance in either of these, or…
The Reformation and Election (Van Dixhoorn)
Originally posted on The Reformed Reader:
I recently started reading this resource in my Logos library: T&T Clark Companion to Reformation Theology. One article that stands out is Chad Van Dixhoorn’s work on election. In this essay, Van Dixhoorn talks…
Shepherd/Guardian 