Wesley enlisted helpers for the Methodist movement. These were lay preachers who helped the movement grow. Here are his “Rules of an Assistant” that were to be followed by these lay preachers. What would happen…
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Friday Files, 22 Dec 17
It’s the third-week-of-Advent, three-days-till-Christmas edition of The Friday Files, our weekly stack of links: We highlight older SEA posts, and highlight stuff from around the Arminian and non-Calvinist blogosphere. Names in green indicate SEA members.…
John Wesley and Eastern Orthodoxy
John Wesley lived and died an Anglican priest. Being the founder of Wesleyanism, not only did he incorporate much of Arminius’ thoughts into Wesleyanism, he also incorporated a fair amount of Eastern Orthodoxy. Note these…
Daniel LaLond Jr., “Evans, Lutzer, Swindoll: An Evang-elastic Gospel”
Preachers like Anthony T. (Tony) Evans or Charles R. (Chuck) Swindoll may appear to stand for truth and the Christian gospel, but if their teaching on salvation by grace allows a professing Christian to continue…
Was H.A. Ironside a Calvinist? A Sampling of His Writings
It is sometimes asked whether the evangelist H.A. Ironside was a Calvinist, or assumed that he must have been because he held to some doctrines which are often associated with Reformed theology, like Perseverance of…
Friday Files, 15 Dec 17
It’s the second-week-of-Advent edition of The Friday Files, our weekly stack of links: We highlight older SEA posts, and highlight stuff from around the Arminian and non-Calvinist blogosphere. Names in green indicate SEA members. Inclusion…
Are There Things God Cannot Do? By Michael Brown
This is always a very difficult question, and Dr. Brown handles it with a great deal of care and grace: https://askdrbrown.org/library/are-there-things-god-cant-do
Jerry Walls, “Review of *Saving Calvinism: Expanding the Reformed Tradition* by Oliver D. Crisp
Please click on the link to view Jerry Walls, “Review of *Saving Calvinism: Expanding the Reformed Tradition* by Oliver D. Crisp”.
Friday Files, 8 Dec 17
It’s the first-week-of-Advent edition of The Friday Files, our weekly stack of links: We highlight older SEA posts, and highlight stuff from around the Arminian and non-Calvinist blogosphere. Names in green indicate SEA members. Inclusion…
It’s Not About Justice but Love: Brief Video Clip of a Telling Exchange between Roger Olson and Michael Horton
This video can also be accessed on YouTube through this link. Context for this clip: Arminian scholar Roger Olson asked the question as to why God does not ordain everyone to freely believe. Why only…
Very Brief video clip of William Mounce Discussing “Whoever” in John 3:16
We published an link to an article by William Mounce on the Greek for John 3:16 and the word “Whoever”. Here is a very brief video on the same topic. Please click on the link…
William D. Mounce, ‘Does “Whoever” Mean “Whoever”?’
Please click on the link to view William D. Mounce, ‘Does “Whoever” Mean “Whoever”?’
Friday Files, 1 Dec 17
Yet again it’s time for The Friday Files, our weekly stack of links: We highlight older SEA posts of interest, and post some of the latest from Arminian and non-Calvinist blogs. Names in green indicate…
Jackson Watts, “Arminius on the Human Condition”
Determining what’s wrong with people is arguably the most important job of physicians. But the task of diagnostics goes far beyond what shows up in lab results. It is a theological task as well. One…
Video and Audio Formats of Kenneth Collins’ Sermon: “Roman Catholicism and Protestantism: What’s Still at Stake 500 Years After the Reformation”
Please click on the link to access Kenneth Collins’ Sermon: “Roman Catholicism and Protestantism: What’s Still at Stake 500 Years After the Reformation”. The message was given at the Chapel at Estes on Wednesday, November 1,…
A Short Animation About the Life of John Wesley
This video can also be accessed on YouTube through this link.
Friday Files, 24 Nov 17
It’s the Black Friday edition of The Friday Files, our weekly stack of links: We highlight older SEA posts of interest, and post some of the latest from Arminian and non-Calvinist blogs. Names in green…
Jake Raabe, “What John Wesley Would Say to Bernie Sanders and Diane Feinstein”
Please click on the link to view Jake Raabe, “What John Wesley Would Say to Bernie Sanders and Diane Feinstein,” Christianity Today (Nov 2017). The post-Reformation theologian has suggestions for post-Christian America.
Video by Seth Miller: “Ask An Arminian: Atonement for All”
Seth Miller addresses the Arminian view of Total Depravity in this brief video. The video can also be accessed on YouTube here.
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