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Hey, guys. I have decided to read over the next year Robert Duncan Culver's Systematic Theology: Biblical and Historical. I am about 70 pages in (which, in normal book pages, is about 140), and I am really enjoying the read. Does anyone else have experience with Culver? His ST is one of the...

I cam across an edit in the CSB (which is the newly-updated HCSB) for Isaiah 64:3. Here are the two side-by-side: "When you did awesome works that we did not expect, you who came down, and the mountains quaked at your presence" (CSB). "When You did awesome works that we did not expect, You...

Hi, all. This Sunday morning I spent several hours in the hospital after a bout of fast heart rate (~140 BPM) and numbness in my hands and forearms. We called an ambulance, fearing it was something very serious. But, praise be to God, all the tests—EKG, blood work, and chest x-ray—came back...

...that there are so many people on this board who hate (and I mean hate) Reformed theology, yet are too squeamish, when kindly invited, to open up a thread on the "Debate with a Calvinist" subforum on their grievance? Anyone else experience that here, or is it just me? I don't think I have...

I know we have one brother here who is intimately familiar with Pastor Don Fortner's gospel ministry. Well, it was through Pastor Fortner that I became familiar with Pastor Henry Mahan. I listen to his sermons almost every day now. Does anyone here know Pastor Mahan personally?

I am currently reading through Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion for my class on Calvin. I came across this paragraph and was very pleased by it: "Now, when I say that the will bereft of freedom is of necessity either drawn or led into evil, it is a wonder if this seems a hard...

I was reading through Paul's second epistle to Timothy tonight when this statement jumped out at me: "He has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time...

Hello, friends. I think I may have commented about this somewhere, but I wanted to open up an official thread about it. I have a serious problem with getting myself into debates. Almost always these debates become heated. Most times they are about the specifics of Reformed theology, other...

Hello, all. This poll question is purely for my curiosity. If I left your translation out, please post below and I will add it.

Dear Brothers and Sisters, Please be in prayer for the unfolding terrorist aftermath in France. The death toll is now 80 and rising.

Check out what I just got in the mail. I'm very excited to read it. It is not every day that I get to sit down and read an American work of systematic theology.

Hello, brothers. For someone who is (hopefully) seeing his final days of the so-called "cage stage," I was convicted and challenged in my Scripture reading today by this passage: "A fool’s displeasure is known at once, but whoever ignores an insult is sensible." —Proverbs 12:16 (HCSB) As...

Context, of course, is crucial to proper biblical interpretation. After all, Scripture does say, "There is no God." Recently, however, in my interactions with non-Calvinists, I constantly am confronted with the same, broken-record argument: "Context, context, context!" It's getting so bad that...

Greetings, my fellow believers. It has been a while since I have ventured on to this forum. I have missed a lot. I just wanted to post a quick question to maybe get some discussion going on the subject: In reading several discussions, debates and articles on certain heated topics within the...

Hello, all. I have something that has been a recent concern. I made a profession of faith and was baptized as a preteen. Whether that profession was genuine or not, I will never know. Based upon my lifestyle up until around a year ago, I would have to say it was not. What I want to know is...

Hello, everyone! I would like to request some guidance. I recently got married to my best friend. We are getting ready to move to Chicago for me to attend TEDS. As the spiritual leader of the household, I am taking it upon myself to find a church for us. There is just one problem: I am...

Greetings, everyone. Before I begin this thread, I must give a little background on myself. I grew up in a Pentacostal church. Over the years, I began to question the things I saw in my church. After much research, I moved to Reformed theology. For a number of years now, I have embraced with...

Hello, all. As you can see by my post count, I am new to this forum. I am thankful for such a rich community of believers on the web with whom I can discuss our my faith. However, I am in a time of peril in my faith life. I do not know if this is the right forum subheading for this kind of...

Hello, everyone! I am so happy to find such an active Christian discussion forum. I am also pleased that this site caters to all walks of the faith. Interaction is paramount to me as a believer. I have found many good forums, but all of them are fairly strictly one-directional. I feel that...