Around the Blogosphere: Top 6 Posts of the Heidelblog

 
1. Who or What Defines Reformed?
2. Calvinism Old and New
3. For Those Just Tuning In: What is the Federal Vision?
4. A Word to Students in the Midst of Controversy
5. Thinking About the Confederation of Reformed Evangelicals?
6. Covenant Theology is Not Replacement Theology

Read Full Post »

Around the Blogosphere

From Atheism Sucks
 
I can’t recommend the debate between Kyle Butt and Dan Barker enough. What I like about Kyle is the fact that he actually did his homework on Barker’s past debates and books – and it shows! The result? Kyle read Barker like a book. As much as Barker tried to refute Kyle with [...]

Read Full Post »

Around the Blogosphere

 
Interview with William Young
Here is an interview with The Shack author William Young. In it he flatly denies the substitutionary atonement (which was one of the questions many people had as they read the book).
 
Preachin’ Dirty
Phil Johnson begins to answer critics of his talk dealing with “Sound Doctrine, Sound Words.” To this point it seems [...]

Read Full Post »

Around the Blogospere

 

Every academic discipline has its intellectual gate keepers, who undertake to determine who is in and who is out. The field of biblical studies is no different in this respect. Where it does differ is in the reality that its subject matter is considered by huge numbers of people to be sacred writ and the [...]

Read Full Post »

Around the Blogosphere

Five Reasons You Need to Study Theology
“There are many reasons why Christian’s need to study theology. In no particular order here are five reasons you need to study theology, and hopefully some of these you won’t have considered before.”
::
Another Five Reasons to Study Theology Here’s a follow-up list
::
“Rabbi” Duncan
On the anniversary of “Rabbi” [...]

Read Full Post »

Around the Blogosphere: Calvinism!!! (Woo-Hoo)

TIME Magazine presents 10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now. Number three on the list: Calvinism.
Mark Driscoll weighs in on the TIME article here and here.
The Wittenberg Door features a Q & A on the topic of total depravity.
John Calvin on common grace.
Contrary to what you may have heard, it is possible to be a [...]

Read Full Post »

Around the Blogosphere

·         Theories about what happened to the ten lost tribes of Israel. This link is to the first of a 3-part article, so be sure to click on to read the other 2 parts… very interesting to think about! (I think the 3rd part– about Japan & Ethiopia– is the most fascinating.)
·         How does a [...]

Read Full Post »

Around the Blogosphere Free ESV Study Bible (temp) +

Crossway is pleased to make the ESV Online Study Bible available free–for anyone and everyone–for a limited time beginning today, March 2 through March 31, 2009.
As many of you have already experienced, the the ESV Online Study Bible provides numerous interactive features in addition to those found in the print edition, enabling readers to:

Record personal [...]

Read Full Post »

Around the Blogosphere

 I wish I remember what blog I got this list from, but the links are good and will make you think

Nathan Eshleman at Presbyterian Thoughts raises a provocative question about how the Church and Illegal Immigrants.  Having personally been involved in the immigrant community, and where my church is unable to send a mission team [...]

Read Full Post »

Around the Blogosphere: Books to Understand Culture

Touchstone editor James Kushiner passes along a list of 10 books recommended by Mars Hill Audio’s Ken Myers for understanding culture:
Five “Thinner” Books:

C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (1943)
Wendell Berry, Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)
Colin Gunton, Enlightenment and Alienation: An Essay Towards a Trinitarian Theology (1985)
George Parkin Grant, English-Speaking [...]

Read Full Post »