Abraham Kuyper and his successor Herman Bavinck are usually considered the “fathers of Neo-Calvinism.” I will spare you the details of what Neo-Calvinism is since more competent folks have already done so. But, I consider myself a Neo-Calvinist simply because I love the works of and adhere to the great majority of Kuyper and Bavinck’s [...]

A friend of mine just recently received a copy of the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith with exposition. My first thought was, “What 19 year old girl these days goes and buys the 1689 LBCF for ‘fun’?…That’s awesome! (perhaps there is hope for my generation!)” and my second thought was, “why haven’t I done that?”
As [...]

Systematic theology is a systematic, logical, and topical approach to organizing our knowledge about God and His works in creation. As such, there’s no such thing as doing apologetics before doing systematics since apologists defend not just a few facts, but the Christian worldview – the gospel – as a whole system. Thus, all apologists [...]

At 8:30 am I received the following blog comment:
I’m afraid I’ll have to decline for a myrad of reasons including time constraints and a lack of interest in debating someone who is apparently more interested in attacking a fellow brother in Christ more than the topic at hand.
Sorry, but I don’t have time to waste [...]

“Why do Calvinists continually insist on calling me an Armenian? Are they really that poorly read that they don’t know that pretty much all of Christianity holds to the Biblical notion that man does in fact have libertarian freedom except for Calvinism?”
This was posted today after this mornings debate invitation. The “Calvinists” in this paragraph [...]

Quite of bit of controversy (or at least online traffic) has stirred since Wes called in to AOmin’s Dividing Line Webcast a couple weeks ago. He was promoting molinism, or “middle knowledge,” as he continues to do on his website ReasontoStand.org. Wes has recently decided to switch gears and take aim at Reformed theology. He [...]