Does the world need another blog?

John Calvin

There seem to be more blogs than there are people, so why add to this chaos? I have avoided entering the blogosphere for some time now, mainly because I did not think that I had anything to say.  I probably still don’t.  

That being the case, until reformed theology takes its rightful place in the world we reformed Christians need to continue to shout it from the rooftops (and cyberspace)!  This blog is dedicated to a recovery of confessional reformed theology.  I was not truly exposed to historic Christianity for the first 28 years of my life.  I suffered many years in Arminian/Fundamentalist/Baptistic/Neo-Evangelical/Emerging/Mega-Church/Dispensational/Evangelical churches.  I have been told that God loves me and has a wonderful plan for my life, that I must come to the altar in order to be born-again, that I make God a liar if I believe that ALL God’s promises from the Old Testament are fulfilled in Christ, and that I was truly a Calvinist and embraced reformed theology just by believing in the 5-points.  

But there is a better way.  Since coming to a more robust understanding of reformed theology and becoming a member of a true reformed church, I have come to see the wonder of the glory of God as revealed in His Word.  No other understanding of Scripture is as God-centered, God-glorifying, or Christ-focused.  

 

The Lion of Princeton - B.B. Warfield

At John Calvin’s 400th birthday celebration, Princeton theologian B.B. Warfield explained, “Calvinism is not a specific variety of theistic thought, religious experience, [or] evangelical faith; but just the perfect manifestation of these things. The difference between it and other forms of theism, religion, [and] evangelicalism is difference not of kind but of degree … it does not take its position then by the side of other types of things; it takes its place over all else that claims to be these things, as embodying all that they ought to be.”

I want to help others who are stuck in the mire of American Evangelicalism to see the light as revealed in the calvinistic understanding of Scripture.  There is nothing more freeing, more exciting, and more God-exalting than to truly understand the sovereignty of God and the finished work of Christ.  

The goal of this blog is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by presenting, explaining, and interacting with the historic Christian faith as it has come to be expressed in reformed theology and by demonstrating how this plays out in everyday life.

Soli Deo Gloria!