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A La Carte (3/30)

Calvinism Is Back – The once-daily format of A La Carte means that I’m sometimes late on the news. I’m betting this article has already been posted on 8,000 different blogs. Nevertheless, here it is again. This is from the Christian Science Monitor: “In America’s Christian faith, a surprising comeback of rock-ribbed Calvinism is challenging the Jesus-is-your-buddy gospel of modern evangelism.” Buried for 27 Days – The Telegraph has an article on a man who survived being buried for 27 …

A La Carte (8/13)

The Lost Art of Reading Here’s an interesting essay on reading. “Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being. We possess the books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves” Eternity in Our Hearts? Ed Welch looks at some well-known words from Ecclessiastes …

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A La Carte (3/19)

Why the Time Magazine Trumpeting of New Calvinism Is a Bad Thing Thabiti Anyabwile offers seven quick but good reasons on why we should react carefully to this article. Driscoll’s New Calvinism Paul Grimmond, writing for The Sola Panel, offers some interesting thoughts on Mark Driscoll’s comments about the new versus the old Calvinism. Band of Bloggers Book Giveaways Timmy Brister has organized another Band of Bloggers event to be held at this year’s Gospel Coalition Conference. He just provided …

A La Carte (1/8)

An Eschatology WebConference The Midwest Center for Theological Studies will be conducting a webconference with Drs. Waldron, Riddlebarger, Gaffin & Poythress to discuss biblical eschatology. The webconference is scheduled for 10:00AM to 12:00PM (CT) this Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009. Meet Thomas Chalmers This blogger is giving away 5 copies of John Mackay’s Thomas Chalmers: A Short Appreciation randomly to church leaders or those preparing for the ministry. The Life and Faith of Tim Tebow There’s a great story at ESPN …

The Reformed [Baptist] Renewal

Over at “Cowboyology,” Clint Humphreys has posted an interesting take on the Baptist wing of the Reformed Renewal we’re experiencing today. A former Professor of New Testament at Toronto Baptist Seminary, Clint now pastors Calvary Grace Church in Calgary, Alberta. Looking at the landscape of Reformed Baptists, he identifies five streams and suggests that most contemporary Reformed Baptists will fit into one of them. They are: The Neo-Evangelical Stream. Leading Example: John Piper Characteristics: Calvinistic convictions arrived at from within …

A La Carte (7/13)

Friday July 13, 2007 Books: After perusing a catalog of upcoming titles from a popular Christian publisher, Phil Ryken has a warning for your young readers. Catholicism: Al Mohler hits a home run with this article explaining why he is not offended by the recent comments from the pope. Calvinism: Over at the 9Marks blog Mark Dever is continuing his series about Calvinism. Discernment: Josh Harris shares an occasion where he ought to have used more discernment.

Books and Beliefs

Last month, in an article entitled By Our Books Shall We Be Known, I discussed some commentary Al Mohler wrote based on an essay that appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The purpose of the article was, quite simply, to show that there is a lot you can tell about a person by the books in his library. Mohler said, “To a great extent, our personal libraries betray our true identities and interests. A minister’s library, taken as a …

Book Review – Singing and Making Music

Paul Jones, organist and Music Director at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia is, by all accounts, a very talented individual. He was privileged to serve alongside James Boice (who once said “Paul is everything I ever prayed for in a music director”) and now works closely with Philip Ryken in serving one of America’s foremost Presbyterian churches. Singing and Making Music, subtitled “Issues in Church Music Today” is Jones’ attempt to distill and share some of his years of accumulated …

With Reverence And Awe

Reformed Christians are increasingly divided over how they ought to worship God. For many Reformed believers, this is an issue of great urgency. D.G. Hart and John R. Muether wrote With Reverence And Awe (Returning to the Basics of Reformed Worship) to address this topic. They call the book a primer on worship, “a brief overview of how Reformed theology informs the way we think about, put together, and participate in the worship service. Our aim is to help church …

Defining My Terms: Calvinist And Reformed

I have once again dipped into my site’s archives to update and refresh an article I posted in the past. In the past few days there has been much discussion in the forum and in my inbox about how we can define “Calvinist” and “Reformed.” I covered this very topic last year, but since that was over 500 posts ago, I have edited it and will repost it here, hoping it will stimulate some discussion and clarify the definitions. I …