This Week in Calvinism - April 27, 2018

• I am not at all familiar with "Feeneyism," but apparently it's seen by some as the Catholic version of Calvinism. As Steven Speray writes:

  ...Calvinism and Feeneyism share the same diabolical character that God desires only a select few to be saved and positively wills the others to damnation. For them, the implication must be that Jesus claims to love and have died for all men but in reality, he taunts and mocks the helpless knowing full well that He created them for nothing but eternal suffering in the lake of fire.

  Straw man much?
  
  
• Gary DeMar explains why Christians should no longer believe in rapture.
  
  
• James White responds to an Arminian attempt to spin the discussion of John 3:16.
  
  
• John Piper's new book, Expository Exultation: Christian Preaching as Worship, is available for download or purchase.
  
  
• Christian blogs aren't what they used to be. Tim Challies explains.
  
  
• Worship, sanctification, and the Holy Spirit are among the topics covered in Ligonier's $5 Friday.

This Week in Calvinism - April 13, 2018

• Eric Hankins doesn't believe that Romans 9 teaches the doctrine of reprobation.
  
  
• Jon Bloom of Desiring God explains why we have that "thorn in the flesh."
  
  
• James White gives his full response to Thabiti Anyabwile's racially charged comments.
  
  
• One blogger wants to see Calvinist and non-Calvinist Southern Baptists unite against the "Neo-Marxist racial identity division" promoted by SBC presidential nominee J. D. Greear.
  
  
• Lots of deals available on $5 Friday at Ligonier.
  
  
• Challies.com is giving away five free subscriptions to K. Scott Oliphint's new online course, Know Why You Believe.

This Week in Calvinism - April 6, 2018

• Who causes your suffering?
  
  
• Scott R. Harrington of Erie, PA, writes:

  I believe the cultural-religious right is governed by capitalism, Calvinism and an avaricious, narcissistic racist culture that touts that greed is good, right and "will save America," as Michael Douglas quipped in the movie Wall Street. ... I believe that the gods of the religious right are the Republican Party, the National Rifle Association and Donald Trump. That is their right-wing political trinity.

  Come on, Scott, tell us what you really think.
  
  
• Meet Justin Westmoreland, a Reformed pastor helping to grow a young church in Norman, OK.
  
  
• Apparently, there is a correlation between Calvinism and domestic violence.
  
  
• Dwight Longenecker writes, "Extreme Calvinism with its emphasis on predestination is a form of fatalism as are every kinds of superstition–fortune telling, astrology, necromancy..."
  
  
• Joshua of The Baptist Reformation responds to Thabiti Anyabwile.
  
  
• James White also responds to Anyabwile on today's edition of The Dividing Line.
  
  
• Enter to win the ESV Archaeology Study Bible from Crossway.