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John Piper hears the voice of God.

My dear friend Sam Pollard has left a comment on my post commenting on Edwards on imputation. It, as I was expect from Sam, is well thought through, deep, meaningful, theological and it taught me something.
Go and read our exchange.
It’s a shame he’s an Anglican.

These are some words from Tertullian’s Against Marcion, speaking against Marcion’s conception of God. Before I get around to commenting on it, I ought to set the scene slightly, and then tell you why on earth you care.
Tertullian lived in the late second and early third century AD. So he qualifies as ‘old.’ One of […]

So what should we have learnt from Jonathan Edwards? Imputation is important. Without that you don’t have much left. It’s a little bit like a house of cards. When you fire a nuclear missile at it, there isn’t much left afterwards.

When researching for my dissertation, I turned to Edwards to read what he had to say on imputation. According to the study of Pauline theology I did in my degree last year, there seemed to be some debate as to whether or not Edwards actually held the imputation of righteousness as the ground of justification. […]

Luke went to the Newfrontiers Student Worker day last weekend, and presents us with a little string of posts from that:
Session 1: Tom Shaw
Session 2: Andrew Wilson
Session 3: Q&A
In ‘Book News’ you seem likely to have heard about the new book ‘Pierced For Our Transgressions‘ which is a defense of penal substitution coming out later […]

Last Sunday Nick preached this from Romans 10 on Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility.
He emailed me a little while ago to tell me he was amused by my rant on Arminianism.
Coincidence?
Probably! … Even if I did mutter to Helen about him ‘borrowing’ my phrases ;)