This Week in Calvinism - June 24, 2016

• Even many professing Christians shy away from the doctrine of total depravity, "Which is a shame," writes Tony Petersen, "because, if anything, the Bible is harsher on the question than TULIP."
  
  
• Calvinism found in John 3.
  
  
• Ennis Pepper gives nine reasons why Calvinism is illogical (and cruel, and abusive, and responsible for the Holocaust, etc.). Each point has been refuted countless times over the years, but for some reason they still persist.
  
  
• Benjamin Corey may be on his way to becoming a Calvinist. Three points down (UIP), only two to go!
  
  
• More pleas for Calvinist and non-Calvinist Southern Baptists to get along.
  
  
• Tim Challies explains why he is not dispensational.
  
  
• Whatever happened to beauty in worship? "Modern churches tend to look like prefabricated warehouses," writes R. C. Sproul, "or they're designed to be functional music halls so that the production of music may have center stage."

This Week in Calvinism - June 10, 2016

• If you missed ReformCon last week, you can watch the videos at Apologia Studios' YouTube channel.
  
  
• Dr. James White dismantles Molinism. Again.
  
  
• Norm Fields thinks TULIP is a lovely flower, but a lousy doctrine.
  
  
• One redditor asks a question about Calvinism: "[I]s there any worth in this theology? I have only see it cause harm for the people that cling to it the closest."
  
  
• The essence of the Calvinistic life.
  
  
• Michael F. Bird predicts "that there is about to be a miniature civil war among conservative Calvinist Complementarians about Trinity and gender."
  
  
• Check out the $5 Friday deals at Ligonier.
  
  
• Free stuff from Tim Challies: the God's Word For You series.

This Week in Calvinism - June 3, 2016

• William Thornton hopes the upcoming SBC election isn't about Calvinism. But nominee Steve Gaines seems to be focusing on that topic.
  
  
• Is atheistic determinism similar to Calvinism?
  
  
• "In Calvinism," writes William Birch, "God did not merely foreknow acts of evil, but He concocted evil acts in His mind to be carried out by certain persons, He decreed them from eternity past, and He then brings them into reality by His own secret methods." So, naturally, if we cannot read God's mind and know exactly why he decreed certain evil acts, then God cannot possibly have a reason decreeing certain evil acts, therefore Calvinism is wrong.
  
  
• Jon Bloom writes, "You don't have to know God's will if you are confident in God's word."
  
  
• For whom did Christ die?