In the Greener Grass Conspiracy Stephen Altrogge addresses the issue of contentment. Why we don’t have it, and why what we often think will bring it only offers scant relief before we find ourselves discontented and desiring something else as a means of achieving satisfaction for our desires. In this brief and engaging book, Altrogge …
To paraphrase Rob Bell: Bin Laden’s in hell? And you know this for a fact? If I understand the thesis that Bell floats in his book Love Wins, all the wrong doing of Osama Bin Laden was atoned for by the death of Jesus Christ, so God holds nothing against him; the life of privilege …
A helpful contrast collated by Martin Downes which demonstrates how those purporting to defend God’s honour by their abandonment of substitutionary atonement really only drag God down to their level. Four voices. Only one of them resembles the tone and accent of the Master. Faustus Socinus (1578) As we saw elsewhere Paul likewise instructs us …
Westminster Shorter Catechism – Lord’s Day 18 Q & A 32 Q What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life? A They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several benefits which in this life do either accompany or flow from …
