by Stuart | 31 Aug 2012 | Blog
Recently, I have been making my way, rather slowly, I might add, through Suicide—A Christian Response: Crucial Considerations for Choosing Life. The book takes the form of a collection of essays by various evangelical writers who comment on issues of euthanasia and...
by Stuart | 26 Aug 2012 | Blog
The following excerpt, which serves as a summary of the five points of Calvinism, is taken from The Doctrines of Grace by James Montgomery Boice and Philip Graham Ryken.1 The doctrines of grace—these words are shorthand for five distinct Bible teachings that were...
by Stuart | 24 Aug 2012 | Blog
In my ongoing thinking through the issue of infants (and the mentally handicapped) who die, and their eternal destiny, I have thus far sought to set forth the overriding argument as I understanding it, and to deal with some objections and other issues relating to the...
by Stuart | 22 Aug 2012 | Blog
In a sermon titled “How to Meet the Doctrine of Election,”1 Charles Spurgeon sought to give a biblical defence of the doctrine of election. In his defence, he noted that opponents of the Calvinistic interpretation of election often resort to misrepresentation in order...
by Stuart | 22 Aug 2012 | Blog
Previously, I outlined my basic assertion that those who die in infancy, or who are too severely handicapped to wrestle intellectually with the implications of the gospel, experience God’s salvific grace. It appears to me that, by his own decree, God’s judgement is...
by Stuart | 20 Aug 2012 | Blog
The Bible teaches in no uncertain terms that everyone has sinned and has consequently fallen short of God’s divine standard. Sin separates us from God, and God’s just decree is that sin is punishable by death. But Jesus Christ took the penalty for our sins upon...
