This Week in Calvinism - January 26, 2018

• A Calvinist and an Arminian walk into a Bible study...
  
  
• "Some have suggested our differences are nothing more than a generational divide," Rick Patrick writes of the Southern Baptist Convention, "but I find that assessment lacking. Yes, most of the Calvinists in the convention are younger, but not all of the younger people in the SBC are Calvinists."
  
  
• European Calvinism and church discipline.
  
  
• According to G. Shane Morris, C. S. Lewis did not teach a ransom view of the atonement.
  
  
• John Piper believes that if a woman should be biblically excluded from the role of pastor, then she should not be a seminary professor.
  
  
• Needless to say, Piper's position doesn't sit well with egalitarians.
  
  
• This week's Free Stuff Friday is brought to you by The Master's University.

This Week in Calvinism - January 12, 2018

• What is it like to enjoy God?
  
  
• Gossip blogs like to wonder if Calvinism is the cause of division in the Duggar family.
  
  
• Abraham Kuyper on Calvinism and the necessity of interracial societies.
  
  
• J. D. Hall wants you to know that he isn't a hyper-Calvinist and Arminianism isn't (but sort of is) heresy. Glad he cleared that up.
  
  
• James White spent the latter part of the most recent episode of The Dividing Line addressing the brouhaha surrounding his show with Arminian Michael Brown.
  
  
• Is it possible for non-Christians to please God? John Piper discusses.

This Week in Calvinism - January 5, 2018

• Pastor Ron Craig believes "that Calvinism, and other isms, have reduced the Gospel message to a set of moral rules and regulations, thereby stripping the Gospel of its miraculous power to deliver people from those evils running rampant in this fallen world system."
  
  
• John Piper stresses the importance of developing strategies for digging deep into God's Word.
  
  
• He explains more here.
  
  
• Joe Aguillard, former president of Louisiana College, is once again suing the school, this time for "discrimination based on his religious beliefs, claiming the current college president, Rick Brewer, is a Calvinist."
  
  
• Did you know that picture books were once considered dangerous for children? Apparently, we can blame John Calvin for that.
  
  
• Sinclair Ferguson on faith and repentance.
  
  
• James White and Michael Brown set the record straight.