Category Archives: Calvinist’s Progress

31
May

A switch flipped over in my head

I notice when I was blogging in 2000, my posts, for all their flaws, were much more personal. I’m afraid controversy has changed my stance. Also, the results of controversy: I was a lot more confident about my personal future … Continue reading →

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7
Sep

Can’t thank you enough

Mark Horne » Blog Archive » A long long time ago. I didn’t expect the encouraging comments I received here and I want to express publicly that they mean a great deal to me.  I actually can forget amid the … Continue reading →

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2
Sep

The Gospel of the New Covenant (from something I wrote in 1996)

The New Testament describes a covenant made between Jesus Christ and His people. That covenant is conditional.[5] Those who persevere in this covenant by continued faith, repentance, the means of Grace and all other ordinances will be confirmed as children … Continue reading →

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26
Apr

RePost: A paragraph that changed the course of my theology and soteriology

J. I Packer, A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, p. 155. The final element in the Puritan development of the doctrine of justification was to safeguard it against mis-statement within the Puritan camp. Chapter XI … Continue reading →

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22
Apr

Why I joined the PCA (NAPARC)

I wasn’t born into the PCA, but I moved there from another Evangelical tradition.  Why? Well, some of it had to do with a strong belief that God foreordains all things including who mercifully inherits eternal life and who justly … Continue reading →

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13
Apr

Daniel Fuller

Daniel Fuller used to have a bunch of stuff online that I thought was helpful. I ran into his book Gospel and Law: Contrast or Continuum and had found it really satisfying as an explanation for the nature of saving … Continue reading →

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25
Mar

David Chilton talks about worship with his son Nathan

Back in the late eighties or early nineties, this essay from The Reconstruction of the Church really impressed me.  Still does: The following is a transcript, or at least a reasonably close version, of a series of conversations I had … Continue reading →

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8
Mar

Was Paul a calvinist?

I always thought he was.  Still think so.  And I’ve always been aware of the following passage: For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, … Continue reading →

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17
Feb

RePost: Real Union or Legal Fiction?

John Williamson Nevin’s Controversy With Charles Hodge Over the Imputation of Adam’s Sin (with a Comparison to Robert L. Dabney) [The footnotes go back (I hope) to where I originally posted this paper. I wrote it in 1997 and it … Continue reading →

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7
Jan

I am totally stealing this Klaas Schilder quote from Matt Colvin

When I declare — and with the pretention of the greatest accuracy in a new binding — that election is the cause and fountain of our total salvation, then I run the danger of making someone, and later the whole … Continue reading →

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