As some of you will recall, back in February, Dr. Ergun Caner commented on this blog that “Five-point Calvinism is a VIRUS. It saps the evangelism of every church it infects.” In response to that diagnosis the Department of Arminian Insecurity was formed in order to monitor the threat…
I am sure that I will be accused of only having one string on my banjo for bringing up Calvinism again, but it is difficult to remain silent when the dialogue about Calvinism gets off track so often. Sometimes it’s the slight misperceptions that are the most egregious errors…
Is there a right way to do this? Evidently Simon, over at “Thinking Deeply” (I am not making this up) believes that there is and that I and others are doing it the wrong way because that is the title of his recent rant article against several Calvinist bloggers…
In case you missed it, BP ran an article by this title two weeks ago by Doug Baker that is very much worth reading. While applauding the gains made by the conservative resurgence Baker rightly warns that they will be temporary if there is not an ongoing effort to…
Yes, there is indeed going to be a debate about Calvinism and yes, yours truly has agreed to participate in it. After Ergun and Emir Caner showed up on this blog and began launching scud missiles against the doctrines of grace, James White reissued his challenge to Ergun to…
Thom Rainer, newly elected President of Lifeway finds his typically optimistic heart deeply challenged by the evangelistic anemia that characterizes most evangelical churches in America. According to his research, it takes 86 American church members one year to reach one person for Christ. His research further suggests some reasons…
I have spent the last week in Romania and enjoyed the fellowship and hospitality of Bethel Baptist Church in Cluj. The fellowship with brothers and sisters, most of whom lived under the repressive regime of Communism that only ended in 1989, has been most encouraging. It has been refreshing…
This is the fourth and final post in this series of guest blogs on “Finding Our Voice in Worship.” The question I want to consider is this: How can we help a church find an authentic voice in worship? Let me offer 5 observations. 1. To be authentic we…
This is the third in a series of guest blogs on “Finding Our Voice in Worship.” Once you have found music that is doctrinally sound and structurally sound, there is still one more test to consider: III. Music must be Congregationally Sound — authenticity We must sing music that…
This is the second in a series of guest blogs on “Finding Our Voice in Worship.” In the first post we considered the first filter or test in selecting music for worship, the test of veracity. If it passes this test, then next consider the structure: II. Music Must…