Here I Stand

"In the late afternoon of April 18, 1521, in the city of Worms, Germany, Martin Luther, a 37 year-old Catholic monk was called to defend himself before Charles the Fifth, the Holy Roman Emperor. The speech he delivered that day, Here I Stand, marked the beginning of the Reformation, a critical turning point in Christian history, that decisively altered the spiritual map of the world."(1)

(I first saw this resource from brother JM Vergara of New Demonstration, clicking the image will take you through his site on to the download source.)

1. from http://www.listenersbible.com/products/index.php?main_page=product_custom_info&cPath=32&products_id=176&utm_source=EM910FHIS&utm_medium=email&utm_content=EM910FHIS_2&utm_campaign=EM910FHIS

The Truth About Man Review

Nathan Pitchford recently reviewed the new workbook The Truth About Man by Paul Washer. An excerpt of that review is below, with a link to the full review. As a reminder, this book is being given away on our newest book giveaway ending in just a couple of days, sign up for that by clicking [here].

"At the beginning of his classic Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin heads his very first paragraph thus: “Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God”.

This observation is strikingly true, and if one would take the time to discuss the gospel in depth with the definite majority of American citizens living today, he would doubtless find that the one great obstacle preventing them from prizing and embracing the gospel of God's grace is a faulty view of self.

The gospel is not for people who are basically pretty good, but just need to believe in themselves, build up their self-esteem, and pick themselves up by their bootstraps. If there is one problem that consistently hinders my attempts at gospel-witnessing, it is that. Oh, for a tool that would give the true picture of man in his sin and helplessness, and so pave the way for a true picture of God in his holy justice and limitless grace! Paul David Washer's biblical study, The Truth About Man, is just that tool, and I enthusiastically recommend it..."

continue reading...

Discussing Evangelicalism

Phil Johnson joins Lane Chaplin on Rightly Divided to discuss Evangelicalism's past, present, and where it may be headed in the future.

What is Molinism?

Dr. James R. White explains and refutes Middle Knowledge.

Open-Air Open-Theism

There are a number of troubling views out there when it comes to the attributes and nature of God. Perhaps the most blasphemous is that of Open Theism.

Watch the video below to see Open Theism in action, with each point followed by a response from God's Word.

"If God knew that men were going to sin, he wouldn't create them!"

-Jesse Morrell, Open Theist and open-air preacher

You can read more about Open Theism in the article "Pastoral Implications of Open Theism" by Tom Ascol when you click here.

Is Barack Obama a Christian?

Is Barack Obama a Christian? John MacArthur reacts to recent comments made by the president.

The Great White Throne Judgment

Steven Lawson paints a sobering picture of The Great White Throne Judgment.

The Sufficiency of Grace

"Sing amazing grace all you want. If the grace you're singing about is insufficient to save, if it's not powerful enough to save without additions... I'm not sure how amazing it really is. And the amazing grace of The Reformation was a grace that saved completely."

Buttons Seen at the John 3:16 Conference

See more John 3:16 Conference buttons here.

Revelations 20 & 21

Read by Mark from ProclaimHisWord

He Never Forgives Sin

"God has often forgiven sinners, but He never forgives sin; and the sinner is only forgiven on the ground of Another having borne his punishment; for 'without shedding of blood is no remission' (Hebrews 9:22)."

-A.W. Pink

Discussing Free Will - Theology Talk 2

Pastor Jim McClarty is joined by Alex Franzone to discuss the often misunderstood and always controversial subject of free will in the latest edition of Theology Talk. Listen to the 4 part series here.

Paul Washer - Predestination and the Sovereignty of God

For those whom He foreknew... (Romans 8:29)

"Before the foundations of the earth He knew you, and it's not because He looked in some crystal ball, or down the corridors of time and saw you in the future.

The bible never speaks of a crystal ball, and it never speaks of corridors of time or God looking into a book that talks about the future... it never does. It never talks about God looking into the future.

God does not know the future because He's looked ahead and seen it... God knows the future because He's Lord over it, and directs every molecule, every fiber of being, every bit of matter towards the purpose He has ordained.

That is a God my friend.

Not a god who looks into the future and then reacts, not a god who makes choices based on choices of other men He's seen in the future.

No.

A god who is The God and Lord and Author of the future."

-Paul Washer

[Listen to the message this was from.]

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Warnings and Prayers for the Lost

"If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for."

-Spurgeon

Millennial Views Discussed

Desiring God recently assembled a group of pastors to discuss their differing views on the Millennium and other aspects of eschatology.

Watch "An Evening of Eschatology," a conversation about the end times with John Piper, Doug Wilson, Sam Storms, and Jim Hamilton below.




Jim McClarty of GCA has also posted a response on the GCA blog to Sam Storms' argument against pre-millennialism, read it here.

Chuck Smith & Calvary Chapel's Ignorance of Calvinism

Sproul on Reformed Theology

"At the heart of Reformed Theology, at the heart of Luther and Calvin’s struggle, and in Knox and Jonathan Edwards, were men who were awakened to the greatness, to the majesty, to the holiness, and the sovereignty of God. By contemplating the holiness and sovereignty of God, they were driven to develop their doctrines of the grace of God. Because until you meet a God who is holy and is sovereign, you don’t know what grace means. I don’t think we are ever going to see a healthy evangelical church until the evangelical church is solidly Reformed, where it takes biblical Christianity seriously with a right concept of a sovereign God.

That’s because unreformed Christianity has failed in our culture. It has been pervasively antinomian (no law, no Lordship), and has been pervasively liberal in it’s trends and tendencies away from Scripture, because there’s been no real basis in the sovereignty of God.

Today’s evangelicals are never amazed by grace, because they don’t understand sovereignty. They don’t understand God. The evangelical church today is sick, more sick than it ever has been. We need a style and a variety of Christianity that is not a religion, but is a life and a worldview, where at the heart and foundational structure of it is a sound and deep biblical concept of the character of God."
-Dr. R.C. Sproul, A Blueprint for Thinking

seen at isaiahc.com

Jerry Bridges- Message Preparation and Delivery

Back in March of this year C.J. Mahaney interviewed Jerry Bridges. Here's a peak at one of the Q&A's. Read the rest here.

Mahaney:

What single piece of counsel (or constructive criticism) has most improved your preaching?

Bridges:

Years ago I took the Dale Carnegie public speaking course. In it I learned three things that I try to practice: 1) Know your subject thoroughly. 2) Be convinced your audience needs to hear your message. 3) Have a strong passion to deliver the message. Though these principles were applied in the context of secular speeches, I found them very helpful for my message preparation and delivery.

MacArthur on the Emergent Church

"The mark of this movement is a rejection of doctrinal certainty, Scripture clarity, and Gospel exclusivity."

-John MacArthur

Edwards on God's Decree

"Whether God has decreed all things that ever come to pass or not, all that own the being of a God, own that He knows all things beforehand. Now, it is self-evident that if He knows all things beforehand, He either doth approve of them or doth not approve of them; that is, He either is willing they should be, or He is not willing they should be. But to will that they should be is to decree them."
-Jonathan Edwards