This past week my small group talked at length about the all-too-often unbelievable aspect of God’s grace, namely that God gives his riches to us based not upon our merit but the achievement of his Son for us in the gospel. This is the gospel-truth from which the Christian life is lived. It affects everything […]
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‘Calvinism’ isn’t helpful. I’ve fired up some of you already, haven’t I? Some of my friends are deleting my Twitter and Facebook connections as you read this. Never fear, I’ll give you the context of that statement shortly. Know from the beginning, I’m not anti-Calvinistic. The first thing I said to the senior pastor of
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For a couple of hours every Thursday morning over the last eight months, fifteen or so of our staff and lay leaders have gathered to study Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology together. It’s really a glorified book club where we discuss our reading assignments each week (okay, there’s a little teaching here and there. I’m sorry,
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