Tag: calvinism
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Is God sovereign over every single event that takes place on earth?
In light of a brief and encouraging discussion in Sunday School yesterday, also in light of a few of my FB friends talking about the subject this morning, here is some sound, Biblical truth on this matter.
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On Controversy
So apparently I’m a little late to this party but I just realized that John Newton is a calvinist. This doesn’t surprise me given the hymns he’s written (i.e. Amazing Grace, Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken, Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder, etc.) but to my credit, any Christian sounds like a calvinist when they stick…
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A Defense of Calvinism
The following is taken from here and was written by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) who was a Calvinist although he preferred as do I, to be called a Christian. This article, while long gives a good overview of the doctrine. “The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I…