Monthly Archives For May 2021

Friday Files: Arminian Heritage

May 28, 2021, posted by Martin Glynn

History is an important part of theology. It is easy sometimes to think that we have been given the Scripture, and little has happened between then and now. However, the Spirit has not been inactive….

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Remonstrance Episode 108: On Divine Providence (Part 2)

May 27, 2021, posted by Remonstrance

If you cannot see the player above follow this link for other ways to listen: Remonstrance Episode 108 This month, we will be releasing a teaching I did last year based on John Wesley’s sermon “On…

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Tom S. Kiser, “The Character of Pure Christianity”

May 26, 2021, posted by Jon Gossman

Editorial Note: John Wesley was impressed by the sketch of a “Perfect Christian” written by Clement of Alexandria about 200 A. D. In 1742 Wesley wrote such a sketch himself, called “The Character of a…

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Joseph D. McPherson, “How Is One To Seek The Experience Of Christian Perfection?”

May 25, 2021, posted by Jon Gossman

Many examples could be cited that would trace the holiness movement’s departure from early Methodism’s heritage and teachings. One important example of such departure is found in the instructions currently given to those who are…

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Friday Files: Calvinist Polemics

May 21, 2021, posted by Martin Glynn

This week we are looking at arguments that Calvinists have levied against Arminianism. Can these critiques themselves bear scrutiny? J. C. Thibodaux, Answering Greg Elmquist’s “Four Unanswerable Questions” Martin Glynn, The Funniest Anti-Arminian Post I…

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Remonstrance Episode 107: On Divine Providence (Part 1)

May 20, 2021, posted by Remonstrance

If you cannot see the player above follow this link for other ways to listen: Remonstrance Episode 107 This month, we will be releasing a teaching I did last year based on John Wesley’s sermon “On…

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Joseph D. McPherson, “Adam Clarke’s Defense of Water Baptism”

May 19, 2021, posted by Jon Gossman

The modern holiness movement has tended to place far less importance upon the sacrament of water baptism than did the New Testament Church. By so doing they have departed from a plain Scriptural pattern. In…

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Video Interview with Luke Gowdy: “Do John 6 & 10 Support Calvinism?”

May 18, 2021, posted by AndrewH

In this video, Luke Gowdy and Nicholas Noyola discuss the question, “Do John 6 & 10 Support Calvinism?”

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Richard Coords, “Determinism”

May 17, 2021, posted by Martin Glynn

It is common for Calvinists to accuse non-Calvinists of misrepresenting Calvinism whenever we speak of it as “too deterministic.” For instance, Calvinistic apologist Matt Slick, stated in an online debate with Leighton Flowers that he…

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Vic Reasoner, “Gliding With Grider”

May 14, 2021, posted by Jon Gossman

The most recent attempt to state the Wesleyan interpretation of theology is found in Kenneth Grider’s A Wesleyan-Holiness Theology (Kansas City: Beacon Hill, 1994). Among Grider’s positive contributions: 1. He interprets “the old man” as…

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FWS Podcast: Doctrinal Dialogues (Parts 11-12)

May 13, 2021, posted by Remonstrance

If you cannot see the players above follow this link: Apple Podcasts or this link: Stitcher In these Doctrinal Dialogues, members of the Fundamental Wesleyan Society have a roundtable discussion about various sermons by John…

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Book Review: The Apologetics of Leroy Forlines
(review by Chris Talbot)

May 12, 2021, posted by AndrewH

Please click on the link to read Chris Talbot’s review of The Apologetics of Leroy Forlines, by Leroy Forlines and J. Matthew Pinson (Welch College Press, 2019), from the Helwys Society Forum: Book Review: The Apologetics…

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William Burt Pope, “Prevenient Grace” in A Compendium of Christian Theology, Vol. II (1877)

May 11, 2021, posted by AndrewH

“This grace as the influence of the Spirit on the minds of men generally and of individual men before their personal acceptance is described in various ways. These may be classed as, first, referring to the…

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Richard Coords, “Decree”

May 10, 2021, posted by Martin Glynn

What has God decreed? Does God decree many things, or has God decreed absolutely everything that comes to pass, as per Calvinism? The belief that God has decreed whatsoever comes to pass is what is…

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FWS Podcast: Doctrinal Dialogues (Parts 9-10)

May 6, 2021, posted by Remonstrance

If you cannot see the players above follow this link: Apple Podcasts or this link: Stitcher In these Doctrinal Dialogues, members of the Fundamental Wesleyan Society have a roundtable discussion about various sermons by John…

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A.J. Smith, “Delivered From Doubt”

May 5, 2021, posted by Jon Gossman

Aaron Jacob Smith (1887-1960) was brought up in a Christian home and professed to have been converted in 1907. Five years later he attended college at University Park, Iowa and professed to be sanctified. He…

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Vic Reasoner, “The Earle & Clarke Exposition”

May 4, 2021, posted by Jon Gossman

Adam Clarke was once considered a dunce, yet he learned twenty languages. He overcame his fears to become the most able biblical scholar of his time in the English-speaking world. When he died the Conference…

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Richards Coords, “Deadness”

May 3, 2021, posted by Martin Glynn

One of the most influential concepts of Calvinism is spiritual deadness.97 Whereas non-Calvinists speak of humanity as being lost and in need of a Savior, Calvinists speak of humanity as being dead and in need…

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