Reblogged From: Paul’s Passing Thoughts It may not seem like the present Obama administration could ever have anything in common with the present-day New Calvinist movement. But not only has there been stranger bedfellows in the past, there are always reasons for such alliances. I’m not much of a political animal, but I also recognize that…
Reblogged From: Arminian Perspectives An Arminian Response to C. Michael Patton’s “The Irrationality of Calvinism” Part 1: The Set Up Posted on January 16, 2013 by kangaroodort C.Michael Patton is the President of Credo House. He has now written two separate and similar posts defending the “irrationality” of Calvinism as actually being a strength of…
Reblogged From: SGM Survivors Why Sovereign Grace Ministries SGM (CJ Mahaney) Doesn’t Like Victims By Kris, on September 2nd, 2011 Awhile back, some of us got to talking about what would possibly cause pastors in Sovereign Grace Ministries churches to have responded the way they did in situations like “Noel’s Story,” “Wallace’s Story,” and “Taylor’s…
Reblogged From: Paul’s Passing Thoughts “Here is what many are missing: you can’t separate the gospel from eschatology [End Times]. Your eschatology [End Times view] will be consistent with your gospel or inconsistent [with your view of life].” Who can forget James Carville’s motto to keep people focused in Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign? “The economy,…
Reblogged from: Iron Ink “Bernard Berelson was trained as a librarian but by the late 1940′s was considered an expert in public relations and the manipulation of public opinion. One year after the publication of Blanshard’s book on Catholic power, Berelson co-edited ‘Public Opinion and Communication’ with Morris Jankowitz, one of the seminal works of…
Reblogged From: Society of Evangelical Arminians The Almost Completely Unknown Difference that Makes All the Difference…. written by Roger E Olson, PhD We talk endlessly about differences among Christians: Catholic versus Protestant, Calvinist versus Arminian, liberal versus conservative, neo-fundamentalist versus postconservative, premillennial versus amillennial, pedobaptist versus credobaptist—to name just a few of our favorite divisions.…
Reblogged from 5 Pt. Salt: Over the last 50 years or so, there has been a dumbing down of Biblical worship and the witness of professing Christians in America. The extent of this process has increased to the point that the present worship or witness is not recognizable to that of the early body of…
Re-Post of the 2012 Basic Christian: Holiness Summit Holiness Summit 2012 — The Plan for the Basic Christian: Holiness Summit 2012 is going to be to have 10 sessions (i.e. based on the 10 smaller wash basins of the Temple) that we can wash in as our offerings to God during the Holiness Summit – As…
Re-Post of the 2012 Basic Christian: End Times Summit Coming this Summer-Fall: The Basic Christian: End Times Summit 2012 Update 01-27-2012: There probably won’t be enough time to have an End Times Summit before Holy Week 2012, so the schedule is going to be to work on Jesus Walk 2012 and a few other updating projects…
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