Tony Cartledge, editor of the Baptist Recorder, has blogged about his experience with Calvinism in the SBC. He has also included articles that report on John Piper’s ministry at their Evangelism and Church Growth Conference. Cartledge does not agree with what he understands Calvinism to teach and does not…
Gene Bridges informed me of a refutation of my use of Keach and Booth as examples of Baptist leaders whose testimonies stands against the new IMB guidelines on baptism. Both men were baptized in Arminian churches and later became Calvinist Baptist pastors. Here is a comment by Ben Stratton…
The Philadelphia Association was established in 1707 as the first association of Baptist churches in America. That does not mean that everything they did or believed was right but it does make their records of great value for shedding light on the historic principles and practices of Baptists in…
The claim that the new IMB guidelines on baptism are nothing more than “what Baptists have always believed” is simply not true. There is ample evidence to the contrary. The historical record indicates that the influential Philadelphia Baptist Association did not require “rebaptism” of those who had been baptized…
Herschael York has weighed in on the IMB controversy, decidedly defending the trustees’ decision to require baptism in a Southern Baptist church or at least a church that practices only believers’ baptism and also believes in eternal security. York, teaches preaching at Southern Seminary and serves as pastor of…
This is my last post on Rev. Joel McDuffie and his unfortunate and embarrassing diatribe against Calvin and Calvinism. His personal attacks against me and “your readers” in private emails have continued. That is hardly reason enough for this final post, but as Centuri0n pointed out in his…
Reverend Joel McDuffie has expressed great displeasure with me for posting excerpts from his article in my critique of what he had written. Although I explained to him that reviews of published material do not typically reprint the entire body of material under consideration, I offered to do so…
In 1997 the late Dr. William Estep unfortunately published an article that was given the title, “Doctrines Lead to Dunghill.” It was an attack on Calvinism. As editor of the Founders Journal, I dedicated a whole issue (Number 29) to responding to Dr. Estep. Among the articles included in…
That is the title of an article that appeared recently in Northwest Florida Daily News. Its author, Rev. Joel M. McDuffie, Jr., is pastor of First Baptist Church of Valparaiso. He quotes Dan Corner’s essay on Michael Servetus entitled, “His Ashes Cry Out Against John Calvin,” as follows: “At…
Here is the schedule for the 2006 Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference, as announced by the President of the Pastors’ Conference, Bryant Wright. You will note the peculiar way that the breakout session featuring Drs. Mohler and Patterson is titled: “Reaching Today’s World Through Differing Views of Election.” I think…