Reformed Voices

Jesus Came to Save Sinners

2009-07-14T16:08:00.000-05:00

Boredom and Self Denial

2009-07-10T00:57:00.000-05:00

Defining Worship

2009-07-08T22:04:00.000-05:00

Paul Washer Bible Study

2009-07-04T23:54:00.004-05:00

I have been encouraged and blessed by these studies on the Glory of Jesus. Please find some time to watch through them.

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Why Doesn't God Save Everybody?

2009-07-01T16:07:00.000-05:00

Former Catholic Priests Discuss The New Birth

2009-06-30T18:30:00.001-05:00

The Savior of All Men, Especially of Believers

2009-06-29T00:01:00.000-05:00

Q - "Could you sometime in the future, when you get time write up some commentary for your FAQ page on 1Timothy 4:10? I have a friend struggling with God's Sovereign grace (Calvinism) and she asked me about this verse and I don't know how to put what I think into words. Your other FAQs have been amazingly helpful."

Pastor Jim responds-

"The controversy stems from the apparent contrast between God being the savior of 'all people' or 'all men' and the next clause that places emphasis on 'those who believe.' How is it that God can be the Savior of all men if Calvinistic soteriology is correct in asserting that Christ died exclusively for the elect? Doesn't this verse completely undermine that idea?"

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A Resolution of Edwards

2009-06-27T05:00:00.000-05:00

"I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age."
-Jonathan Edwards

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Our Times Are In His Hands

2009-06-26T15:01:00.001-05:00

"You are absolutely immortal until God decides it's time for you to go home. Not all the armies in the world, their combined strength, can take out the life of one believer until God decrees it is time."
-Paul Washer

Warfield on Jonathan Edwards

2009-06-25T00:23:00.003-05:00

"Jonathan Edwards, saint and metaphysician, revivalist and theologian, stands out as the one figure of real greatness in the intellectual life of colonial America."
-B.B. Warfield 1932

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Is It Lived Out?

2009-06-24T01:37:00.004-05:00

"Be careful... those of us who concern ourselves with theology. The young men who think theology is extremely important... and they are right... but be very, very careful. With all your learning... what is your opinion of Jesus... and is that opinion lived out? Is it lived out?"
-Paul Washer

Lloyd-Jones on Jonathan Edwards

2009-06-23T17:14:00.004-05:00

"No man is more relevant to the present condition of Christianity than Jonathan Edwards. . . . He was a mighty theologian and a great evangelist at the same time. . . . He was pre-eminently the theologian of revival. If you want to know anything about true revival, Edwards is the man to consult. Revivals have often started as the result of people reading volumes such as these two volumes of Edwards' Works."
-D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones 1976

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The Son's Glory - Meditating on the Greatness of Christ

2009-06-19T01:35:00.001-05:00

Jonathan Edwards Book Giveaway

2009-06-18T15:56:00.002-05:00

Guarding the Gospel - Steve Lawson

2009-06-17T16:18:00.000-05:00

God's Decree and Sovereignty

2009-06-12T02:51:00.000-05:00

Psalm 33

2009-06-11T02:18:00.001-05:00

1 Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous!

Praise befits the upright.
2 Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre;
make melody to him with the harp of ten strings!
3 Sing to him a new song;
play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts.

4 For the word of the Lord is upright,
and all his work is done in faithfulness.
5 He loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.

6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
7 He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap;
he puts the deeps in storehouses.

8 Let all the earth fear the Lord;
let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!
9 For he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it stood firm.

10 The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
11 The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
the plans of his heart to all generations.
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

13 The Lord looks down from heaven;
he sees all the children of man;
14 from where he sits enthroned he looks out
on all the inhabitants of the earth,
15 he who fashions the hearts of them all
and observes all their deeds.
16 The king is not saved by his great army;
a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
17 The war horse is a false hope for salvation,
and by its great might it cannot rescue.

18 Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his steadfast love,
19 that he may deliver their soul from death
and keep them alive in famine.

20 Our soul waits for the Lord;
he is our help and our shield.
21 For our heart is glad in him,
because we trust in his holy name.
22 Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
even as we hope in you.

-ESV

Jesus on Limited Atonement

2009-06-10T00:57:00.004-05:00

Listen along to GCA's Gospel of John study as Pastor Jim teaches from the 10th chapter.

Paul Washer on Twitter

2009-06-06T02:05:00.004-05:00

Paul Washer has been posting thoughts on Twitter for a couple of months now at http://twitter.com/paulwasher .

[Twitter is similar to a blogging platform except that posts (tweets) are limited to only 140 characters.]

a recent entry from Brother Paul:

"You would do better looking straight into the midday Sun or beholding lightning from only a few feet away, than gazing upon God's holiness."

The Pleasures of God - Part 1 - John Piper

2009-06-06T01:46:00.001-05:00

Slaves for Christ

2009-06-05T01:18:00.000-05:00

Hope when Praying for a Lost Family Member

2009-06-03T01:31:00.004-05:00

John Newton to William Cowper, February 22, 1770

"I am willing to hope that you will be made a messenger of light and peace to his soul. The Lord's hand is not shortened that he cannot save. He can do great things in a small time, as you know from your own experience. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, he can command light to shine out of darkness. If he speaks, it is done... One glimpse of the worth of the soul, the evil of sin, and the importance of eternity, will effect that which hath been in vain attempted by repeated arguments."

[Cowper's brother, John, converted on his deathbed a few days later]

Monica Dennington Calls Calvinists to Repent, James White Responds

2009-05-30T09:06:00.001-05:00

Begg on Contentedness

2009-05-29T00:23:00.003-05:00

"When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness."
-Alistair Begg

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John Newton Book Giveaway

2009-05-27T22:41:00.009-05:00

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I've set up a new site on a domain I've had for a while at ReformedVoices.org just for book giveaways. It is a WordPress blog that lets me gather email addresses (hidden from visitors) when you comment so that I can just email the winner and not worry about winners checking back to see if they won. Click the banner below to sign up for the John Newton book giveaway.

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