Let’s Get Metaphysical- Roundup for 1/25/08

Let’s get metaphysical! And remember, next Friday will be the Evangelism First! roundup for February. Keep your posts coming!

• Timmy “Regulative Principle” Brister
  • is wary of George Barna‘s new book, Pagan Christianity, which consists of Barna‘s take on which church practices are not found in the scriptures.
  • takes issue of Baptist Press‘ latest alarmist story on Calvinism and Evangelism.
  • first Frank Page had Trouble with the Tulip; now he has trouble with Baptist History.
• Bradley Cochran explores the necessity of holding to a Limited atonement.
• Trevin Wax objects that Christianity is not an atonement theory.
• Joshua “Slugger” Hitchcock of the Reformed Mafia
  • has a preliminary review of Laurence Vance‘s hack job book, The Other Side of Calvinism.
  • meditates on the wonder of creation.
• Rhett “Machinegun” Kelley, also of the Reformed Mafia, takes on Jerry Drace‘s defamatory remarks about Calvinists in the Baptist Press.
• Brent Thomas
  • just preached Genesis 34, and waxes philosophical on preaching ALL of scripture, even the hard parts. [Romans 9, Ephesians 1, or the book of John anyone? -ed]
  • gives us two hermeneutical questions to guide our Eschatology.
• Travis Peterson points out the power of predestination in God’s great plan of redemption.
• Alex Leung laments that true Christian preaching is neglected in the church today.
• Eric Carpenter gives reasons why Doctrine is essential to the church.
• Corey Reynolds identifies the promoter of teetotalism as the weaker brother in the alcohol debate.
• Matt Privett has read the idiotic anti-calvinistic boogeyman rhetoric and wonders whether Dr. Mohler‘s nomination to be SBC president in 2008 won’t lead to a “gunfight at the OK Indianapolis Geneva Corral“.