Critique 22: DOES GOD NEED TO GET PERMISSION FROM HIMSELF? Repeatedly we see the logical incoherence of the Calvinist position espoused by Piper and how the Scriptures are rendered unintelligible and meaningless in a context…
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Friday Files, 6 December 2019
Happy St. Nicholas’s Day! (Yes, he’s a real person; yes he has a feast day; yes it’s this early in the month.) In the spirit of gift-giving, here’s the Friday Files, our bags of SEA…
Friday Files, 29 November 2019
It’s St. Saturnin’s Day (or, if you’re more of a Mammonist, it’s Black Friday). And since it’s Friday, it’s time for the Friday Files, our sampling of side-dish leftovers from SEA’s feast of archives. (Hey,…
Friday Files, 22 November 2019
It’s the Sts. Philemon and Apphia Day edition of the Friday Files, SEA’s weekly plow across the field where we plant our archives. The views expressed in these links and stories are sometimes those of…
Martin Glynn, “Response to ‘Got Questions: Limited Atonement- Is It Biblical'”
Part II
In the last post I was looking at an article on Limited Atonement. There I talked about how the issue of Limited vs. Unlimited Atonement has less to do with the nature of the atonement…
Friday Files, 15 November 2019
It’s the Sts. Francis Asbury and George Whitefield Day edition of the Friday Files, SEA’s weekly bulldoze through the tel that is our archives. The views expressed in the links and stories aren’t always those…
Martin Glynn, “Response to ‘Got Questions: Limited Atonement- Is It Biblical'”
Part I
An article was recently shared with me that had convinced an Arminian to become a Calvinist. It describes the doctrine of Limited Atonement. For those who are curious about my thoughts on the matter, I…
Three Things to Know About the “Vessels of Wrath”
They rejected God’s mercy in unbelief. In Romans 2:4, Paul introduces the vessels of wrath metaphor. Addressing Israel, he asks, “do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing…
Friday Files, 8 November 2019
It’s the Four Crowned Martyrs Day edition of the Friday Files, SEA’s weekly browse through the links and articles we’ve posted on the first week in November in various years. Which years? Well they’re below….
Theological Commission, “The Apologetics of Leroy Forlines Published”
A new book, The Apologetics of Leroy Forlines, by F. Leroy Forlines and J. Matthew Pinson, was recently published by Welch College Press, according to Matthew Bracey, managing editor of Welch College Press. “The book…
Kevin RK Davis, “What if Arminianism IS the Middle Ground?”
MANY CHRISTIANS TACKLE THE SOTERIOLOGICAL DEBATE I do not find myself as an island, having gone through a journey of soteriology. I’ve investigated and read up on the dominating Protestant theories on the matter. The…
Friday Files, 1 November 2019
It’s the All Saints Day edition of the Friday Files! Presenting back articles and links from SEA’s archives from the last week of October and beginning of November. Our members’ names are in blue, and…
Scot McKnight, What is “Biblical” Theology Anyway?
Please click on the link to read Dr. Scot McKnight’s overview of a new book, Biblical Theology: The Convergence of the Canon, by Arminian scholar Dr Ben Witherington III: Scot McKnight, What is “Biblical” Theology…
Friday Files, 25 October 2019
It’s the St. Dorcas/Tabitha’s Day edition of the Friday Files, in which we present previous SEA articles and links, and you decide whether they sound interesting enough to visit. Their views don’t necessarily reflect those…
Ad Intra: The Good News of Incarnation
by finney.raju Warning: Ad Astra Spoiler Ahead James Gray’s movie Ad Astra is a soulful take on space exploration. Ad Astra is Latin for “to the stars”. The film follows Roy McBride’s pursuit for his estranged father, Clifford McBride….
Friday Files, 18 October 2019
It’s the St. Luke’s Day edition of the Friday Files, our weekly review of the links and articles SEA posted long, long ago. Well, a year ago, five years ago, and 10 years ago, so……
Ed Stetzer, “One-on-One with Jeffrey Barbeau on Methodism”
Ed Stetzer interviews Dr. Jeffrey Barbeau about his latest book. Dr. Barbeau serves as Professor of Theology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. To view Ed Stetzer, “One-on-One with Jeffrey Barbeau on Methodism,” via Christianity Today…
Friday Files, 12 October 2019
It’s the Friday Files!… a day late, on Saturday. Sorry about that. Where I live, we have electrical problems. So I guess this is now the St. Wilfrid’s Day edition. Once again, we look back…
A Calvinist Endorsement of the Society of Evangelical Arminians Outreach Discussion Group
A Calvinist recently posted these comments in our outreach Facebook discussion group: I’m a Calvinist and I want to say thank you to this group. While my entire upbringing and education has been hard…
Friday Files, 4 October 2019
It’s the St. Francis of Assisi’s Day edition of the Friday Files, where we take a break from trying to find new content and show off a bunch of our previous content. It’s all good…
