I’ve seen Calvinists quote this (along with others like it) to demonstrate that the notion of limited atonement didn’t originate with Calvin or his followers. But I’m having a hard time tracking down the source. Neither Logos Bible Software nor the Internet have been able to get me any earlier than 1979. Michael Horton quoted it […]
Piper’s A Holy Ambition Free from Vyrso
Vyrso currently has John Piper’s A Holy Ambition: To Preach Where Christ Has Not Been Named available as a free download. For now, it’s available digitally exclusively through Vyrso. Vyrso is the new Christian ebook platform from Logos Bible Software. Three other free books available from Baker for today only are Success Is Not an Accident: Change […]
Warfield on Eternal Subordination in the Trinity
Those who reject the notion of hierarchy in the imminent Trinity often point to B. B. Warfield as a supporter of their position. In his article in ISBE on the Trinity,1 Warfield discusses at length his reservations about reading what we see in the economic Trinity back into the immanent Trinity. 19. The Implications of “Son” […]
Did the Incarnation Improve God?
Earlier this week, the Gospel Coalition blog featured a post on the Incarnation and God’s immutability, which caught my attention. An individual asked, How do we hold together the idea that God doesn’t change with what happened at the incarnation and resurrection—where Jesus was united to a human nature and took on an earthly body and […]
Why InDesign Crashes When Placing Word Documents and How to Fix It
I occasionally create PDF documents using Adobe InDesign. The source document always comes from Microsoft Word. More often than not, when placing (think importing) the document in InDesign, it crashes and says, “Adobe InDesign CS5 has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution […]
Carl Trueman, Hero Worship, and God’s Gifts
Carl Trueman wrote several provocative posts critiquing conservative evangelicalism in America and its purportedly unhealthy promotion of its prominent preachers and teachers—particularly as it relates to conferences like The Gospel Coalition. Here they are: Home Thoughts from Abroad What hath Jerusalem to do with Hollywood? Thoughts on Marketing and Conferences Not guilty! The Lady Doth Protest Too […]
How Do the Father, Son, and Spirit Differ?
In recent debates about the Trinity—particularly the ones that stem from the gender debate—the question of the differences among the persons of the Trinity comes to the forefront. How do the Father, Son, and Spirit differ from each other? John Brown of Haddington answers this way:1 By their names of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Mt […]
What Is the Most Convincing Proof of the Deity of Christ?
My immediate response would probably be God’s special revelation in His authoritative and inerrant Word. Here’s what B. B. Warfield had to say in “The Deity of Christ”: The Scriptures give us evidence enough, then, that Christ is God. But the Scriptures are far from giving us all the evidence we have. There is, for example, […]