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Outrageous Calvinist quote of the day

"Christian's sin. Okay!? And we hate all sin and just because we do a sin that we decry does not mean that we are hypocrites. It means that we are Christians! And once again I ask myself the question: do people understand the Gospel?" - Todd Friel on Wretched Radio 9/28/2010

Worth a look…

Here are a few posts I’ve found interesting recently and so I’m passing them along to you.**

• Bill Mounce wonders what constitutes an accurate translation
• The Orthodox Church affirms Conditional Security
• Thom Rainer tells why church guests return
• Roger Olson writes about Two opposite forces pulling evangelicals (and others) apart
• Should Christian’s practice Yoga? Albert Mohler answers
• Adam McHugh writers in the Washington Post about Introverts in Evangelical America
• He also wrote: Introvert? No Apology Required
• How are pastors most tempted to evaluate their ministries in ways God does not?
• Advice for Theological Students and Young Pastors – Part 1, Part 2

**I may not always agree with them but I at least found them interesting

What an amazing creation evolution (oops!)

Sometimes the truth of creation is so amazing and obvious that even the evolutionists slip up and admit it

The man John Wesley wished he could imitate…

On September 12, 1729 John William Fletcher was born. Fletcher was a contemporary of John Wesley, a strong proponent of Wesleyan theology, and one of Methodism's first great theologians.

John Wesley had this to say about John Fletcher: “An obedience discovered itself in Fletcher of Madeley, which I wish I could describe or imitate.” Wesley had picked Fletcher to succeed him as the leader of the Methodist church but Fletcher died before Wesley. Wesley preached Fletcher’s funeral sermon from the words "Mark the perfect man." He characterized him as the holiest man he had ever met, or ever expected to meet “this side of eternity.”

Here are a couple of quotes from John Fletcher that I love:

A manifestation of the Spirit last year will no more support a soul this year, than air breathed yesterday will nourish the flame of life to-day. The sun which warmed us last week must shine again this week. Old light is dead light. A notion of old warmth is a very cold notion.

The error of rigid Calvinists centers in the denial of that evangelical liberty, whereby all men, under various dispensations of grace, may without necessity choose life...And the error of rigid Arminians consists in not paying a cheerful homage to redeeming grace, for all the liberty and power which we have to choose life, and to work righteousness since the fall...To avoid these two extremes, we need only follow the Scripture-doctrine of free-will restored and assisted by free-grace.

Tag-along Tuesday Thursday

It’s been a long time since my last “Tag along Tuesday Thursday” post in which I share some posts from other blogs that I’ve found interesting**. Since my daughter has had me up since an insanely early hour I have time to post them so here goes:

• Jeremy Pierce shares some things he hates about worship songs
• Got worship?
• Eating steak on a paper plate
• How to Become a Successful Religion
• What’s wrong with Calvinism?
• If Christians get any cooler…
• Who is tithing?

**I may not always agree with them but I at least found them interesting**

God is…

"God is a Spirit, holy in nature and attributes, absolute in reality, infinite in efficiency, perfect in personality, and thereby the ultimate ground, adequate cause and sufficient reason for all finite existence." H. Orton Wiley

Are you looking forward to Christ's return?

"Do you love the Lord's appearing? Then you will bend every effort to take the gospel into all the world. It troubles me in the light of the clear teaching of God's Word, in the light of our Lord's explicit definition of our task in The Great Commission, that we take it so lightly...His is the kingdom; He reigns in heaven, and He manifest His reign on earth in and through His church. When we have accomplished our mission, He will return and establish His kingdom in glory. To us it is given not only to wait for but also to hasten the coming of the day of God." - George Ladd

A Hunger for God

"The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world." - John Piper