Free download book from Christian Audio: Desiring God

November’s free audio download from Christian Audio is Desiring God by John Piper. In a cultural Christianity that too often sees God as a means to an end, we need to understand that God is the end, and in him alone is true joy.
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Short-Changing the Work of the Spirit

We carry the descriptive name “evangelical” because we believe that people are accepted by God through believing the evangel, the “good news” that Jesus died upon the cross for believing sinners. Sinners who repent of their sin and look to the crucified Christ, who took the wrath of God in their stead, are forgiven and [...]

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Compromising evangelicals

It seems that evangelicals are falling all over themselves to become accepted by mainstream American society. Discussions about creation in the first two chapters of the book of Genesis are deemed “distractions.” The plight of the unborn is considered “yesterday’s battle.” It is considered fashionable to support a United States President who pontificates about the [...]

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Fewer baptisms in the SBC

One of the distinctives which make Baptists “Baptist” is the belief in a regenerate church membership. In other words, only those who profess faith in Christ and give evidence of regeneration are to be baptized and admitted into the membership of the local church. Because we hold that the Scriptures restrict baptism to believers (with [...]

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What about free will?

One of the main arguments against the Calvinist position on the sovereignty of God in an individual’s salvation is that the Calvinist position violates the principle of free will. After all, God gave every person the right and ability to choose Christ or to reject Christ, right? If God chooses who will be saved, then [...]

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Imitation Christianity

A danger for many Christians is they worry they do not believe in Christ intensely enough. They worry that their faith is not strong enough.
The Bible, though, does not speak of the quantity of our faith. Faith is a resting, a trusting in Christ, a belief that Christ died upon the cross in the place [...]

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The sovereignty of God in salvation

Many evangelical Christians verbally affirm the sovereignty of God in all of life, until, that is, the topic of election arises. Then a bit of hedging starts to take place, with something like this being said: “I believe that God is sovereign over all things, but when it comes to election, God has chosen to [...]

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