I recently came across a January 10, 2005 article at a Calvinist website, banneroftruth.org. The article is entitled, “Gordon Clark and Sandemanianism.” It is by Doug Barnes. In the article Barnes rejects Clark’s suggestion that faith is being convinced that a proposition is true. Instead, he favorably cites Kuyper who says that believing that the

The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress 241 years ago. The Constitution was ratified 228 years ago. A lot has changed in 200 years. Do you think the Founding Fathers would be pleased with the progress of freedom in this country? Would they think we were faithful to their vision? I

“Pee-ew!” my four year old daughter exclaimed, dramatically waving her hand in front of her nose. “Daddy, the sandbox really stinks. The cats pooped in it a LOT!” “But, haven’t you been playing in it for the last hour!?! You still played in it even though you knew it was full of poop? Isn’t Zane

Last week I heard Rush Limbaugh say that one of the great lessons he learned is that being hated by people is a measure of success. Of course, Rush has an audience in the millions. And he surely has millions who at least strongly disagree with what he says. Many of them may actually hate

…for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law. (Gal 3:21b) When a soldier decides to join one of the elite units in the Army, he must go through very tough training. My best friend when I was in the Army did that

A reader alerted us to this quote from John Piper. It appears in the Foreword to Thomas Schreiner’s Faith Alone: The Doctrine of Justification (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2015). As Tom Schreiner says, the book “tackles one of the fundamental questions of our human condition: how can a person be right with God?” The stunning

On Saturday, June 3, 2017, I debated Dr. Matthew Bates, author of Salvation by Allegiance Alone. You can hear the debate by clicking here. My overall reaction to the debate is that the issue of what a person must do to be born again was made clear. Bates argued that what is required is “embodied

The Claim by Dr. Matthew Bates: Pistis Means Faithfulness in Salvific Contexts Recently (June 3, 2017) I was involved in a debate about saving faith on Moody Radio’s Up for Debate program. I debated Dr. Matthew Bates, author of Salvation by Allegiance Alone. You can listen to the debate by clicking here. The host gave

When was Abraham justified before God? We don’t know when Abraham first came to believe in God, or when the Lord first spoke to him. We do know that Abraham was 75 years old when, at God’s command, he departed Haran for the promised land (Gen 12:4). But, presumably, Abraham had come to believe in