Dave Jenkins speaks with Dan Darling about ERLC, Cultural Engagement, and Ministry
Christianity and America's Founders from the Regular Reformed Guys
Christopher Yuan on Christianity and Homosexuality
How Christianity’s Uniqueness Makes It Compelling
Bruce Ware on 4-Point Calvinism with These Go To 11
The guys at Popcorn Theology talk about Captain America: Civil War so if you have not seen the movie, you might not want to listen
Showing posts with label Regular Reformed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Regular Reformed. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Friday, April 29, 2016
Around The Web-April 29, 2016
The Regular Reformed Guys speak to Kerry Gillard about race and the church
Dave Jenkins speaks with Ed Welch about his book, Side By Side, which I highly recommend
What I Learned The First Two Years of Church Planting by Jason Davis
Scott Sauls shares his thoughts on the Rise and Fall of Pastors
Daniel Darling wants you to get caught up on church history
Are You Tempted to Toss the Bible? by Aaron Armstrong
Calvinist Batman speaks with Heath Lambert about the Theology of Biblical Counseling
How the Lord’s Supper Makes a Local Church by Bobby Jamieson
Seeing Christ in All of Scripture and other books are on sale right now.
Daily quotes from Spurgeon and books for Mother's Day on sale as well.
Reformed Theological Seminary has a video they release called Wisdom Wednesday where they address theological issues. This past week feature Derek Thomas and Ligon Duncan answering two questions: what is hell and what is Heaven.
Next Friday, Captain America: Civil War comes out in the theatres. There have already been some great reviews. I think this might be the best Marvel film ever. One reason this movie is getting a lot of buzz is Spider-man. Yes, the web-slinger makes his debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. These two videos are TV spots from the movie that came out earlier this week (it will say in 10 days) which shows a little more Spidey.
Dave Jenkins speaks with Ed Welch about his book, Side By Side, which I highly recommend
What I Learned The First Two Years of Church Planting by Jason Davis
Scott Sauls shares his thoughts on the Rise and Fall of Pastors
Daniel Darling wants you to get caught up on church history
Are You Tempted to Toss the Bible? by Aaron Armstrong
Calvinist Batman speaks with Heath Lambert about the Theology of Biblical Counseling
How the Lord’s Supper Makes a Local Church by Bobby Jamieson
Seeing Christ in All of Scripture and other books are on sale right now.
Daily quotes from Spurgeon and books for Mother's Day on sale as well.
Reformed Theological Seminary has a video they release called Wisdom Wednesday where they address theological issues. This past week feature Derek Thomas and Ligon Duncan answering two questions: what is hell and what is Heaven.
Next Friday, Captain America: Civil War comes out in the theatres. There have already been some great reviews. I think this might be the best Marvel film ever. One reason this movie is getting a lot of buzz is Spider-man. Yes, the web-slinger makes his debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. These two videos are TV spots from the movie that came out earlier this week (it will say in 10 days) which shows a little more Spidey.
Thursday, March 3, 2016
What is New Calvinism?
Back in 2009, Time Magazine called New Calvinism one of the 10 ideas changing the world. Many think Calvinism is something that is a new concept but what many don't realize that it has been around for many years. It was not until recently gained new supporters.
So what exactly is New Calvinism? Josh Buice wrote:
First of all, the New Calvinism isn’t all that new. This is a movement that’s relatively young in terms of church history, but it’s not a new movement in recent years. In 2008, Collin Hansen published a book titled: Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinistsand in doing so, coined the phrase Young, Restless, Reformed. In the following year, Time Magazine published a series of articles beneath the umbrella of “10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now.” The third article in the series was written by David Van Biema titled, “The New Calvinism.” In his article, Biema writes:
Calvinism is back, and not just musically. John Calvin’s 16th century reply to medieval Catholicism’s buy-your-way-out-of-purgatory excesses is Evangelicalism’s latest success story, complete with an utterly sovereign and micromanaging deity, sinful and puny humanity, and the combination’s logical consequence, predestination: the belief that before time’s dawn, God decided whom he would save (or not), unaffected by any subsequent human action or decision.
In terms of the movement – the New Calvinism is very fluid and difficult to fully define. It’s hard to get your hands around the entire movement, especially since the group is no longer explicitly young and not completely restless. Although a difficult task, it is my goal to provide a working definition of the New Calvinism that goes beyond the mere descriptive cliché that’s often thrown around in blogs, books, and sermons.
You can read the entire post here.
Josh also did an interview with the Regular Reformed Guys on New Calvinism that I invite you to check out.
Also Tim Challies gave us 12 features of new Calvinism:
1. The New Calvinism, in its allegiance to the inerrancy of the Bible, embraces the biblical truths behind the five points of Calvinism (TULIP), while having an aversion to using the acronym (or any other systematic packaging) along with a sometimes-qualified embrace of Limited Atonement. The focus is on Calvinistic soteriology but not to the exclusion or the appreciation of the broader scope of Calvin’s vision.
2. The New Calvinism embraces the sovereignty of God in salvation and all the affairs of life and history, including evil and suffering.
3. The New Calvinism has a strong complementarian flavor (as opposed to egalitarian) with an emphasis on the flourishing of men and women in relationships where men embrace a call to robust, humble, Christ-like servant-leadership.
4. The New Calvinism leans toward being culture-affirming, as opposed to culture-denying, while holding fast to some very culturally-alien positions on issues like same-sex practice and abortion.
5. The New Calvinism embraces the essential place of the local church: it is led mainly by pastors; it has a vibrant church-planting bent; it produces widely-sung worship music; and it exalts the preached Word as central to the work of God both locally and globally.
6. The New Calvinism is aggressively mission-driven, including missional impact on social evils, evangelistic impact on personal networks, and missionary impact on the unreached peoples of the world.
7. The New Calvinism is inter-denominational, with a strong (some would say oxymoronic) Baptistic element.
8. The New Calvinism includes both charismatics and non-charismatics.
9. The New Calvinism places a priority on pietism or piety in the Puritan vein, with an emphasis on the essential role of the affections in Christian living, while esteeming the life of the mind and being very productive in it, and embracing the value of serious scholarship.
10. The New Calvinism is vibrantly engaged in publishing books, and, even more remarkably, in the world of the Internet, with hundreds of energetic bloggers and social media activists, with Twitter as the increasingly-default way of signalling things new and old that should be noticed and read.
11. The New Calvinism is international in scope, multi-ethnic in expression, and culturally-diverse. There is no single geographic, racial, cultural, governing center. There are no officers, no organization, nor any loose affiliation that would encompass the whole. (As an aside, he adds: I would dare say there are outcroppings of this movement that no one in this room has ever heard of.)
12. The New Calvinism is robustly gospel-centered, cross-centered, with dozens of books rolling off the presses coming at the gospel from every conceivable angle and applying it to all areas of life, with a commitment to seeing the historic doctrine of justification finding its fruit in sanctification both personally and communally.
Recommended Reading:
The Joy of Calvinism by Greg Forster
Killing Calvinism by Greg Dutcher
So what exactly is New Calvinism? Josh Buice wrote:
First of all, the New Calvinism isn’t all that new. This is a movement that’s relatively young in terms of church history, but it’s not a new movement in recent years. In 2008, Collin Hansen published a book titled: Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinistsand in doing so, coined the phrase Young, Restless, Reformed. In the following year, Time Magazine published a series of articles beneath the umbrella of “10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now.” The third article in the series was written by David Van Biema titled, “The New Calvinism.” In his article, Biema writes:
Calvinism is back, and not just musically. John Calvin’s 16th century reply to medieval Catholicism’s buy-your-way-out-of-purgatory excesses is Evangelicalism’s latest success story, complete with an utterly sovereign and micromanaging deity, sinful and puny humanity, and the combination’s logical consequence, predestination: the belief that before time’s dawn, God decided whom he would save (or not), unaffected by any subsequent human action or decision.
In terms of the movement – the New Calvinism is very fluid and difficult to fully define. It’s hard to get your hands around the entire movement, especially since the group is no longer explicitly young and not completely restless. Although a difficult task, it is my goal to provide a working definition of the New Calvinism that goes beyond the mere descriptive cliché that’s often thrown around in blogs, books, and sermons.
You can read the entire post here.
Josh also did an interview with the Regular Reformed Guys on New Calvinism that I invite you to check out.
Also Tim Challies gave us 12 features of new Calvinism:
1. The New Calvinism, in its allegiance to the inerrancy of the Bible, embraces the biblical truths behind the five points of Calvinism (TULIP), while having an aversion to using the acronym (or any other systematic packaging) along with a sometimes-qualified embrace of Limited Atonement. The focus is on Calvinistic soteriology but not to the exclusion or the appreciation of the broader scope of Calvin’s vision.
2. The New Calvinism embraces the sovereignty of God in salvation and all the affairs of life and history, including evil and suffering.
3. The New Calvinism has a strong complementarian flavor (as opposed to egalitarian) with an emphasis on the flourishing of men and women in relationships where men embrace a call to robust, humble, Christ-like servant-leadership.
4. The New Calvinism leans toward being culture-affirming, as opposed to culture-denying, while holding fast to some very culturally-alien positions on issues like same-sex practice and abortion.
5. The New Calvinism embraces the essential place of the local church: it is led mainly by pastors; it has a vibrant church-planting bent; it produces widely-sung worship music; and it exalts the preached Word as central to the work of God both locally and globally.
6. The New Calvinism is aggressively mission-driven, including missional impact on social evils, evangelistic impact on personal networks, and missionary impact on the unreached peoples of the world.
7. The New Calvinism is inter-denominational, with a strong (some would say oxymoronic) Baptistic element.
8. The New Calvinism includes both charismatics and non-charismatics.
9. The New Calvinism places a priority on pietism or piety in the Puritan vein, with an emphasis on the essential role of the affections in Christian living, while esteeming the life of the mind and being very productive in it, and embracing the value of serious scholarship.
10. The New Calvinism is vibrantly engaged in publishing books, and, even more remarkably, in the world of the Internet, with hundreds of energetic bloggers and social media activists, with Twitter as the increasingly-default way of signalling things new and old that should be noticed and read.
11. The New Calvinism is international in scope, multi-ethnic in expression, and culturally-diverse. There is no single geographic, racial, cultural, governing center. There are no officers, no organization, nor any loose affiliation that would encompass the whole. (As an aside, he adds: I would dare say there are outcroppings of this movement that no one in this room has ever heard of.)
12. The New Calvinism is robustly gospel-centered, cross-centered, with dozens of books rolling off the presses coming at the gospel from every conceivable angle and applying it to all areas of life, with a commitment to seeing the historic doctrine of justification finding its fruit in sanctification both personally and communally.
Recommended Reading:
The Joy of Calvinism by Greg Forster
Killing Calvinism by Greg Dutcher
Friday, February 19, 2016
Around The Web-February 19, 2016
Westminster Bookstore has a sale going on with books by John Murray
South Dakota Senate Passes Bill to Prohibit Transgender Students from Using Bathroom Based on Gender Identity
The Regular Reformed guys talk with Tom Ascol about the rise of Calvinism in the SBC
Calvinist Batman talks with Kevin Vanhoozer about Sola Scriptura
Why is Gospel-Centered Youth Ministry Important?
3 Perks of Bivocational Church Planting by Joshua Hedger
Martin Luther's Death and Legacy by Stephen Nichols
9 Marks answers questions regarding Non-Members Serving in Church, A Prospective Elder Who Doesn’t Regularly Attend, The Problem with Contemporary Christian Music, and How Younger Members Can Serve Older Ones
Gotham Central reacts the final Batman v Superman trailer
I love movie scores. I have a lot of favorites. The score to "The Lord of the Rings" movies are part of that list. This video shows how the score helps elevate the story.
South Dakota Senate Passes Bill to Prohibit Transgender Students from Using Bathroom Based on Gender Identity
The Regular Reformed guys talk with Tom Ascol about the rise of Calvinism in the SBC
Calvinist Batman talks with Kevin Vanhoozer about Sola Scriptura
Why is Gospel-Centered Youth Ministry Important?
3 Perks of Bivocational Church Planting by Joshua Hedger
Martin Luther's Death and Legacy by Stephen Nichols
9 Marks answers questions regarding Non-Members Serving in Church, A Prospective Elder Who Doesn’t Regularly Attend, The Problem with Contemporary Christian Music, and How Younger Members Can Serve Older Ones
Gotham Central reacts the final Batman v Superman trailer
I love movie scores. I have a lot of favorites. The score to "The Lord of the Rings" movies are part of that list. This video shows how the score helps elevate the story.
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