This week I have been closely following the posts and discussion at the Pyromaniacs blog on the issue of perseverance. Besides commenting at Pyromaniacs, I also blogged about this discussion here.
I have also tried lately, to stick to the subjects my blog is most directly concerned with when linking to other blog articles. But do not despair (do I have any readers who actually would?), I still plan on posting blogrolls periodically, as I like to share what I am studying and thinking about. Perhaps these resources can be a blessing to you all, as well.
On Studying and Reading for Pastors
On the Need of Teachers
- Check out another post on this subject from the Pyromaniacs here.
On Controversies
- Frank Turk, of Centuri0n (and also Pyromaniacs), pointed my attention to Hugh Hewitt’s publicizing a blogger’s harsh criticisms of John Piper’s recent “10 Ways to Waste Cancer” article. [To be fair, the blogger did follow up with a post having a less harsh tone, but he did not retract his statements.]
- There has also been a controversy brewing this week concerning the origins of the ESV. Ben Witherington (a seminary professor at Asbury Theological Seminary) posted “The problem with the ESV”, in which he intimates that one translator (Wayne Grudem) was the prime mover behind the ESV, and that the translator’s big axe to grind (which necessitated the ESV) was opposition to the TNIV’s gender inclusive language. The ESV blog, responded to this charge, with the true origins of the ESV. Justin Taylor, posted Wayne Grudem’s reply, which was originally in the comments section of Ben Witherington’s blog. Witherington did graciously rescind some of his comments. Interestingly, the original post has now been deleted from his blog. (I linked to a cache of the page from Google, but I am not sure how long that link will work!).
On Calvinism
- Jonathan Moorhead has had some interesting posts lately on his blog concerning Arminian (and other) reactions to Calvinism’s doctrine of monergistic regeneration (see my post here about this here). Anyway, he had a post not to long ago summarizing some objections by one of the commentors. He later responded by posting a long answer from Gene Bridges of Triablogue. The answer is worth looking at (you can skip some of the technical stuff about Molinism, if you’d like, but he has some good responses to the earlier posted objections.”
- And for another great response to Arminian objections to monergistic regeration, check out this post
- Now concerning perseverance, Faith and Practice had a very interesting post (and debate) on free grace theology vs. Matt. 7:21-23 (see my post on perseverance as a duty here).
On Ethics
- Doug Eaton has a great series on different approaches to Biblical Ethics. It is very informative, especially to those who have never formally studied the issue (like me!). Here are the links: Introduction/Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
On Tithing
- Doug also points us to an interesting debate on Tithing–is it required of us today?
Bob,
Thanks for the links, I looking forward to a couple of them. And thanks for including a couple of mine.
God Bless,
Doug
Interesting.