A La Carte (1/12)

  • Tim Challies
  • 01/12/09
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Don’t Pamper Your Doubts
Phil Johnson offers a good weekly dose of Spurgeon. “Beloved friends, let us never look upon our own unbelief as an excusable infirmity, but let us always regard it as a sin, and as a great sin, too. Whatever excuse you may at any time make for others,—and I pray you to make excuses for them whenever you can rightly do so,—never make any for yourself. In that case, be swift to condemn.”
Spirituality Trumps Religion
Studies like this one are, in so many ways, utterly ridiculous. And yet maybe there is a thing or two we can learn from them…
Who Would Jesus Smack Down
Mark Driscoll is featured in the pages of the New York Times.
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Comments (7)

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a comment from Ben Mordecai • 01/12 @ 9:32am
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I think that Driscoll article exaggerated wayyyyyyy too much.

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a comment from Woz • 01/12 @ 11:52am

Yeah, the author’s distaste for Calvinsim was more than obvious, and completely uninformed. It’s hard to consider that as anything close to objective journalism.

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a comment from Curtis • 01/12 @ 1:23pm
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Funny, they lump him in with Olsteen….I wonder if Olsteen would ever let Driscoll preach at his church building? One thing I really like about Driscoll is that he says it like it is, even when it hurts, though he does use language I tend to reserve for when I hit my finger with a hammer, I wonder if we should slip some soap in his bottle of water. Anyways he does an excellent job of preaching the Gospel. Here is his newest book, I can’t wait to read it. Someone want to buy me a late Christmas present? Just kidding, sort of…

http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=501296&netp_id=527607&event=ESRCN&item_code=WW&view=covers

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a comment from Curtis • 01/12 @ 8:07pm
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Tim, MacArthur wrote an article in which he mentions you. Thought you might like to know.

http://www.gty.org/Resources/Articles/2643

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a comment from NiftyDrewFifty • 01/13 @ 2:52am

I think its natural to be arrogant about calvinism because the belief is arrogant. Despite the human depravity element which is humbling, people still believe God chose to save them in particular, for no particular reason known to them. People would never believe in a God that didn’t save them.

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a comment from Gary • 01/14 @ 9:16am

NiftyDrewFifty: “people still believe God chose to save them in particular, for no particular reason known to them”

Then they have no reason to be arrogant. It is nothing the person did, it’s entirely grace

“People would never believe in a God that didn’t save them”

On the contrary, they do all the time. Christianity is the only religion where God saves them. All others are various forms of man saving himself through good deeds.

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a comment from NiftyDrewFifty • 01/14 @ 7:33pm

“Then they have no reason to be arrogant. It is nothing the person did, it’s entirely grace”

Yeah- grace for them!

“On the contrary, they do all the time. Christianity is the only religion where God saves them. All others are various forms of man saving himself through good deeds.”

-Not faith vs. works. People wouldn’t believe in a God that had grace on others but not them. People wouldn’t believe in a God that chose others for heaven but not themselves.