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It’s Not Palatable, Therefore I Default Back to My Tradition

by Roger Servin 01.04.2010

But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,  and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”  This means that it is not the children of the flesh who [...]

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Can You Prove Calvinism to be True Apart from Pauline Scriptures?

by Roger Servin 11.19.2009

Les Lanphere has decided to try and prove Calvinism without using scriptures written by the Apostle Paul.  I like this and think it’s a good challenge since he brings out scriptures found in the gospels and non-Pauline epistles.  So if you’re one of those who say that we only get our theology from Paul, then [...]

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Thinking Deeply With Kevin DeYoung: Can God Know Everything and Still Give Us Free Will?

by Roger Servin 11.07.2009

One thing that I like to do is challenge you, the reader of this blog to think deeply about God.  One of the reasons for this is because I feel as though I was not challenged in this area the first 8 years or so in my Christian walk.  I believe that I’ve been deprived [...]

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Dr. James White Refutes Middle Knowledge

by Roger Servin 10.24.2009

Last night Dr. James White spoke at Trinity Reformed Baptist Church and he gave two talks, one on God’s providence and the other was an explanation and refutation of Middle Knowledge (Molinism) which is apparently being advocated by none other than William Lane Craig himself. I was there last night, and so I thought it [...]

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Is the Call of God Effectual or Not?

by Roger Servin 10.16.2009

What is the “calling” of God? The words call, called, and calling are used over 700 times in the Old and New Testaments, according to the New Bible Dictionary. The Greek words translated call include kaleo and its derivatives parakaleo, epikaleo, and kletos, along with legein and phonein. Despite such a variety of words, there [...]

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My Thoughts: Desiring God National Conference – Calvin in the Theater of God

by Roger Servin 09.28.2009

About a year ago me, my good friend Sonny (fellow contributor here) and Eric decided we were going to go ahead with plans to go to the next Desiring God National Conference.  At that time, (last November) we didn’t even know what the theme was going to be, we just knew that we wanted to [...]

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