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Discussing Ken Wilson’s Work, Part 5 – Using Equal Scales in the Discussion

Chris Whisonant

Introduction Recently, Dr. James White has been interacting quite a bit with Dr. Ken Wilson’s book (and dissertation) regarding Augustine’s “conversion” to a predestinarian. As I have been reading much of Augustine’s work lately as well as other Church Fathers, I felt that I should enter this discussion with a layman’s perspective. Since Dr. Wilson’s dissertation is available to freely view most …

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Virtual Resolutions

Hannah Ascol

Since representing Southern Baptists a year ago before the National Commission on Military, National, and Public service, I’ve been in contact with retired Navy Captain Robert H. Miller, who was … More

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What Can the Righteous Do?: Some thoughts on the Sufficiency of Scripture and the SBC

Hannah Ascol

A Story I began my first pastorate at the age of 24, ready to conquer the world for the glory of King Jesus! I commenced preaching through the book of … More

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Through Forty Years: A Tribute to Marriage to My Best Friend

Hannah Ascol

Forty years is a lifetime, or at least the better part of one for most people. It is the number of years the Israelites spent in the wilderness in order … More

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Hermeneutics and Expository Preaching

Hannah Ascol

If any pastor has questioned the importance of hermeneutics or the serious challenges arising within the field over the last fifty to seventy-five years then the June 26, 2015 United … More

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Discussing Ken Wilson’s Work, Part 4 – Athanasius and Original Sin

Chris Whisonant

Introduction Recently, Dr. James White has been interacting quite a bit with Dr. Ken Wilson’s book (and dissertation) regarding Augustine’s “conversion” to a predestinarian. As I have read more Augustine and other Church Fathers than probably almost anyone else I know, I felt that I should enter this discussion with a layman’s perspective. Since Dr. …

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Did Jesus Desire to NOT do Something His Father Commanded in the Garden of Gethsemane?

Jared Moore

A Response to Matthew Lee Anderson and Revoice Introduction Matthew Lee Anderson recently received his PhD from Oxford University in Christian Ethics and is on the Advisory Council of Revoice. … More

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Discussing Ken Wilson’s Work, Part 3 – Some Earlier Comments from Augustine on Original Sin

Chris Whisonant

Introduction Recently, Dr. James White has been interacting quite a bit with Dr. Ken Wilson’s book (and dissertation) regarding Augustine’s “conversion” to a predestinarian. As I have read more Augustine and other Church Fathers than probably almost anyone else I know, I felt that I should enter this discussion with a layman’s perspective. Since Dr. …

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Discussing Ken Wilson’s Work, Part 2 – Augustine, 412, and Original Sin

Chris Whisonant

  Introduction Recently, Dr. James White has been interacting quite a bit with Dr. Ken Wilson’s book (and dissertation) regarding Augustine’s “conversion” to a predestinarian. As I have read more Augustine and other Church Fathers than probably almost anyone else I know, I felt that I should enter this discussion with a layman’s perspective. Since …

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Abortion and the Misshaped Conscience of Southern Baptists

Tom Ascol

In 1974, one year after the United States Supreme Court created a law to legalize abortion on demand in the Roe v Wade case, the pop rock duo, Jim Seals … More

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Discussing Ken Wilson’s Work, Part 1 – Clement and Free Will

Chris Whisonant

Introduction Recently, Dr. James White has been interacting quite a bit with Dr. Ken Wilson’s book (and dissertation) regarding Augustine’s “conversion” to a predestinarian. As I have read more Augustine and other Church Fathers than probably almost anyone else I know, I felt that I should enter this discussion with a layman’s perspective. Since Dr. …

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Complementarianism is Not the Problem

Tom Buck

I hate every form of abuse. Whether it be the father who uses harsh words with his wife or children; the mother who slaps her child; the husband who physically … More

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Augustine (400) – On The Harmony of The Gospels, Book 1

Chris Whisonant

Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On The Harmony of The Gospels, is an exposition of the 4 Gospels with a purpose of relating their differences and how the differences could be harmonized. It is actually one of his lengthier …

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A Wrinkle in the Practice of Reformed Infant Baptism

Chris Whisonant

Briefly today, I would like to respond to the statements in a paragraph in Dr. Clark’s latest blog post. After posing a question that he received from someone, Dr. Clark gives us an introductory paragraph in which he is laying out the early evidence that infant baptism was an established practice received from the Apostles …

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The Puritans: A Transatlantic History

Ryan Denton

Book Review: David D. Hall, The Puritans: A Transatlantic History David H. Hall’s The Puritans: A Transatlantic History is already being hailed as one of the best introductions ever written … More

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Of Marriage: The 1689 Baptist Confession

Reagan Marsh

Chapter 25: Second London Confession To say there’s confusion today regarding marriage might be the understatement of the century. In the name of diversity, reports parade people who married the … More

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Religious Liberty: The Glory of Baptists

Timon Cline

Henry C. Vedder, in his Baptists and Liberty of Conscience (1884), proudly declared that the “glory of Baptists” was that they were the first to advocate religious liberty for all … More

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Of the Civil Magistrate

Tom Nettles

Chapter 24: Second London Confession Baptist Protestantism Embracing a full and enthusiastic consent to the leading doctrines of the Reformation, particularly in its English Puritan form, Baptists made their most … More

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Introduction: Of The Civil Magistrate and Religious Liberty

Tom Nettles

Introduction Chapters XXIV-XXV of the Second London Confession As we continue our exposition of the Second London Confession, we dig into the confession’s treatment of two issues that are not … More

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The Covenant of Works in the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith

Chris Whisonant

I am uncertain why it is the case, but for some reason there has been a belief spread over the years that the Particular/Reformed Baptists do not Confess or believe in a “Covenant of Works”. A cursory read of the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (i.e. the 1689) shows that there are both implicit …

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