Thought I’d start posting reviews here along with on my GoodReads account… The Courage To Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World by David Wells An excellent read and challenging critique. This book is a summary of Wells’ previous 4 volumes, so at times I wished I could have gone deeper into [...]
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Review of David Wells’ “Courage To Be Protestant”
Posted in Books, Culture, Evangelism, Reformation, Theology on November 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sovereignty of God The Father in Salvation according to A.W. Pink
Posted in Books, Grace, Reformation, Scripture, Theology on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From A.W. Pink’s The Sovereignty of God, quoting scripture and Spurgeon in support of predestination: “As many as were ordained to eternal life, believed” (Acts 13:48). Every artifice of human ingenuity has been employed to blunt the sharp edge of this Scripture and to explain away the obvious meaning of these words, but it has [...]
Weekly Notables (8)
Posted in Books, Calvin, Luther, Reformation, Weather/Climate on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lutheranism vs Calvinism. An excellent podcast from Issues Etc, in which two pastors discuss the differences between the main streams of the Reformation. Real Christianity by William Wilberforce. The next Reading Classics Together from Tim Challies. Anyone want to take part in this with me? The greenhouse effect from Anthony Watts. A good “primer” for [...]
Here I Stand
Posted in Luther, Reformation on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I figured some quotes I’ve recently read from Roland H. Bainton’s Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther would be a great place to begin this blog. Bainton describes the dramatic scene in which thousands gathered at the Diet of Worms as Luther was summoned by Charles the V to recant his works: The [...]
