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    Well it has been sometime!

    Hello to anyone who is still here from the old days!:oldthumbsup:
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    'My Hope' Billy Graham

    This is the latest campaign by the BGEA. Billy will give a televised appeal some time in November of this year in which participants are asked to invite friends and acquaintances into their homes to watch it. Our session and outreach committee have approved it and are actively promoting it...
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    Illumination and Conviction without Regeneration

    Greetings fellow Reformed Brethren:wave: There is a lot of discussion lately about, what to all intents and purposes amounts to what we know as the Ordo Salutus. Does Faith Precede regeneration and such. I know, I know it gets tiresome going over the same old arguments time after time after...
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    Preterism

    Any Preterists here? I am engaging a family member in discussion who is strongly influenced by this understanding of Eschatology. Thoughts? Insights?
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    Rich Mullins is a Calvinist

    He just didn't know it
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    "At-onement"

    Anyone have any information on the source of this phrase? I'm not looking for information on the word "ATONEMENT" but "AT-ONE-MENT" What are your thoughts on this?
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    John Murray on Limited atonement

    Arminianism and the Atonement by John Murray
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    John Owen on limited atonement

    "[If Jesus died for all men]...why then, are not all freed from the punishment of all their sins? You will say, "Because of their unbelief; they will not believe." But his unbelief, is it sin, or not? If not, why should they be punished for it? If it be sin...
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    Whos holding who?

    It is not thy hold on Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not thy joy in Christ that saves thee; it is Christ. It is not even thy faith in Christ, though that be the instrument; it is Christ's blood and merit. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Soteriology Forum Proposal

    Brothers and Sisters I have started a new thread in the Soteriology forum for the purposes of providing articles,summaries and links that explain the Reformed Doctrine of salvation. I have noticed over the years that most of our opponents arguments are based on subjective misinformation and...
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    Reformed Soteriology (A summary)

    In my years of posting here, and on other forums, I have noticed that quite a lot of those posters who are opposed to The Reformed doctrine of salvation actually know very little or have a limited understanding of its tenets. A lot of what I read coming from non Reformed posters here is nothing...
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    Salvation is of the Lord according to Spurgeon

    "Salvation is of the Lord."—Jonah 2:9. ALVATION is the work of God. It is He alone who quickens the soul "dead in trespasses and sins," and it is He also who maintains the soul in its spiritual life. He is both "Alpha and Omega." "Salvation is of the Lord." If I am prayerful, God makes me...
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    Spurgeon on Monergistic Regeneration

    "You must be born again." Excerpt from Spurgeon’s sermon,"Light, Natural and Spiritual" No. 660. Reformation Theology: Spurgeon on Monergistic Regeneration
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    Bible Study Fellowship

    Anyone been involved with this organization? We have a few in our fellowship who are and I am somewhat concerned that there is more focus on that than the local church. What are your thoughts positive or negative. Pros, Cons?
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    DIY thread?

    I inadvertently took our new Soteriology thread OT with reference to car repairs that I need to get done. Maybe we could use this thread or request a subforum within SR for this kind of stuff. What think yea? Please vote.
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    Expositions from scripture. Rev Dr Eric Alexander

    Some of you may have heard of him, and some not. I had the privilege of sitting under his, and Dr Sinclair Ferguson’s ministry at St Georges Tron in Glasgow, Scotland in the 80’s and 90’s. He is arguably one of the finest expository preachers of the 20th C and is in high demand at conferences...
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    For Whom did Christ die?

    Hit the poll and explain your vote.
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    My floating library

    Well US Customs approved my library for shipment from Scotland to the USA(Where I now live) I can hardly contain myself that soon I will be reunited with Jonh Calvin,John Owen and a myriad of puritan paperbacks as well as all my lovely banner of truth commentaries. One of my basement rooms is...
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    Humour in Preaching?

    Ive been increasingly concerned with the use of humour and humourous anecdotal stories in sermons. Personaly I can find no scriptural support for the use of humour in teaching although I know Jesus used hyperbole to illustrate. What is your view in the use of humour in the pulpit?