This Week in Calvinism - February 24, 2012

• Sioux County is an economic leader in Iowa. Is it really due in large part to Calvinism?
  
  
• Justified by faith or works?
  
  
• Turns out we Calvinists have misinterpreted Romans 9. When we read "not because of works," what the text is really saying is that God's "mercy isn't based upon adherence to the works of the Mosaic law." So, we were right in that salvation isn't based on works; we were only wrong on which works Paul was referring to? I always thought works were works.
  
  
• Justin Taylor interviews Greg Forster, author of The Joy of Calvinism.
  
  
• How would you identify a God not worthy of worship?