This Week in Calvinism - October 5, 2012

• C. J. Mahaney's Sovereign Grace Church begins worshiping in Louisville.
  
  
• Dan Phillips seems to imply that anything less than a vote for Mitt Romney is a sin. I'm not really sure how else to interpret his post.
  
  
• Apparently, Jesus never taught perseverance of the saints. That's true, if you eliminate John 6:37-39, John 10:27-28, Romans 8:29-30, 1 Corinthians 1:8, Philippians 1:6, Hebrews 10:14, 1st Peter 1:5, and all those other passages that do teach perseverance of the saints.
  
  
• Kevin DeYoung's book, The Hole in Our Holiness, is available for $10 for a limited time.
  
  
• David Platt on the doctrine of suffering.
  
  
• In order to better understand history, it helps to have a grasp on the concept of total depravity.