Please click on the link to access the Andy Miller III Podcast “More To The Story” with Mark Olson on John Wesley and Aldersgate. Podcast episode description: May 24, 1738, is a sacred day in…
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Video: Arminian Review of the Open Theism Debate Between Calvinist James White and Open Theist Tim Barber
SEA members Chris Bastedo, Richard Ellis, and Dan Chapa review the recent debate on “Does God know the future exhaustively and perfectly?” between Calvinist James White and Open Theist Tim Barber. We bring an Arminian…
John Wesley, “Serious Thoughts Upon the Perseverance of the Saints”
Please click the link to view John Wesley, “Serious Thoughts Upon the Perseverance of the Saints.” Please be aware that this work was written in an older English style in which the letter “s” often looks…
Video: Debate: Is Calvinism Biblical?
In this debate, Jim Pearl takes the affirmative, that Calvinism is biblical, and he debates SEA member Chris Bastedo. SEA member Dan Chapa moderates. The video below may also be accessed on YouTube at https://youtu.be/YwH55lIbqdY.
Richard Coords, “Predestination”
Predestination is a biblical term, referring to anything that God, in advance, has purposed and planned to bring about. Here are some examples found in the Bible: Luke 22:22: “‘For indeed, the Son of Man…
Isaac N. Hopper, “Songs of the Faithful: The Wesleyan Hymns as Border for the People Called Methodists”
[To view the footnotes on this page, scroll down to the bottom of the page. Clicking on the hyperlinked footnotes will take you off site to the notes in the original article location.] Introduction Every…
Ashleigh Nicole and Dale Wayman, “Divine Determinism and Biblical Counseling: How Calvinism Turns Your Savior into Your Abuser”
I had the privilege of sitting down for over an hour with Dr. Dale Wayman, one of the Vice Presidents of the Society of Evangelical Arminians. The following article is a transcript from part of…
Roy Ingle, “Must Reads For Arminians”
[This post is from 2008, and so Ingle might provide a different list if he were to write this today. But this list still seems worthy of considering. Updating editorial comments have been provided in…
The Wesleyan Heritage Collection
Currently downloadable at Archive.org is the contents of a CD full of original and hard to find Wesleyan texts, not least the works of Wesley himself, that can be accessed at this link. Here is…
Does the Gift of God in Ephesians 2:8-9 Refer to Salvation or Faith?
On his website, Arminian Perspectives, Ben Henshaw has a questions page at which he answers questions about Arminianism and Calvinism that visitors to his site pose in the comment section of the page. Here is a revision…
John Wesley Quote on the Possibility of Losing Salvation
Calvinists, who deny that salvation can ever be lost, reason on the subject in a marvelous way. They tell us, that no virgin’s lamp can go out; no promising harvest be choked with thorns; no…
Richard Coords, “Prayer”
Prayer is communicating with God, and prayer changes things. It changes both us and God. It changes us because it centers our attention around Him and it changes God because God is an emotional Being…
Roy Ingle, “The Inconsistency of Calvinism On Free Will and Sovereignty”
The nature of divine sovereignty and human freedom has been often debated by both Arminian and Calvinist theologians for centuries. From the birth of the early Church, human freedom and divine sovereignty have often been…
Video: Arminian Providence: A Response to William Lane Craig
SEA members Dan Chapa and Martin Glynn respond to William Lane Craig’s comments on the Arminian view of Providence. The video can also be viewed on YouTube through this link.
Seng-Kong Tan, “The Doctrine of the Trinity in John Wesley’s Prose and Poetic Works”
Dr. Seng-Kong Tan serves at Biblical Graduate School of Theology. This article was previously published in the Journal for Christian Theological Research 7 (2002). [To view the footnotes on this page, scroll down to the bottom of…
X-Calvinist Corner Files: Testimony # 35
The X-Calvinist Corner is a page on this website that shares the stories of people who were once Calvinist but have left Calvinism for a more Arminian theology. This series (The X-Calvinist Corner Files) highlights one of…
How Would You Interpret John 6:44-45 from an Arminian Perspective?
On his website, Arminian Perspectives, Ben Henshaw has a questions page at which he answers questions about Arminianism and Calvinism that visitors to his site pose in the comment section of the page. Here is a question…
Randall McElwain, “No Room For Mirth Or Trifling Here: Theological and Spiritual Instruction in Charles Wesley’s Hymns for Children”
[To view the footnotes on this page, scroll down to the bottom of the page. Clicking on the hyperlinked footnotes will take you off site to the notes in the original article location.] Introduction In The Barber of Seville,…
Richard Coords, “Perseverance”
Is it a “work” to continue believing in Christ? What do Calvinists believe? You were saved by the grace of God through faith. So, are you now kept saved through the rest of your life…
Roy Ingle, “Depravity and the Glory of God”
I have been reading in my devotions in the books of 1 and 2 Chronicles. I was struck by how often both David and his son Solomon often referred to their being chosen by God…
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