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Theology: The Price of Trying To Be God

29th September 2016

To sin is to use a gift that God provided for the purpose of pointing to his glory in a way that the Creator never intended. That’s how God’s good gift of relaxation degenerates into vacations that end in frustration because they fall short of our self-centered expectations. That’s how God’s gifts of food and drink […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, PROOF, Video Tagged With: Alice Cooper, hamartiology, Helloween, Satan, sin

Theology: How Free Is Humanity?

13th September 2016

How free are your choices? Do human beings possess free will? Does God determine your choices or do you? Part of the answer depends on how you define “freedom” and “free will”! With that in mind, let’s take a closer look at the notions of human freedom and free will. Does God Save People Against Their […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, PROOF Tagged With: Arminianism, Calvinism, free will

Theology: Do God’s Plans Ever Fail?

6th September 2016

Broken dreams are woven deeply into the fabric of human existence—so deeply that it’s easy for us to assume God’s plans fail, just like ours. In fact, that’s precisely what some theologians have claimed over the past few decades. According to one best-selling book from a certain Jewish rabbi, God wishes he could make everything right […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, Learn, PROOF Tagged With: open theism, sovereignty

Family Ministry: The Difference Between God’s Adoption and Ours

24th August 2016

Thirteen years ago, my wife and I sat at a table in a cramped office that reeked of scorched coffee and mildewed carpet. By that point in our lives, we had journeyed for nearly two years on a long and difficult road toward adoption. While social workers shuffled around us, we pored over page after […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, PROOF Tagged With: adoption, grace

Family Ministry: PROOF Pirates Book and Vacation Bible School Material

6th November 2015

Chore charts. Report cards. Standardized tests. Athletic banquets. Kids are inundated with messages about their performance. Because performance—work and reward—is one of the basic structures of our lives, kids often grow up thinking, “I am what I am because of what I do . . . or because of what I’ve failed to do.” How […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, PROOF, Video Tagged With: family ministry, PROOF, Vacation Bible School

PROOF: Martin Luther on Beards and Human Depravity

31st October 2014

There’s nothing we can do to change our sinful nature. From time to time, we may have calmed our consciences by pulling the plug on a sinful habit or two. Perhaps we flushed a few pills down the toilet, vowed not to gossip so much about our coworkers, or made a New Year’s resolution to […]

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Filed Under: Blog, PROOF Tagged With: Ephesians, gospel, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther, PROOF, Total Depravity

PROOF: Who Invented the TULIP? (Part 3)

8th August 2014

Did you miss Parts 1 and 2 of “Who Invented the TULIP?”  Click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2. Where Did McAfee Find His Points in the First Place? Others have explored the origins of TULIP as far back as Cleland McAfee’s 1905 lecture. I find it highly unlikely, however, that this […]

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Filed Under: PROOF Tagged With: Calvinism, church history, PROOF, TULIP

PROOF: Who Invented the TULIP? (Part 2)

6th August 2014

Did you miss Part 1 of “Who Invented the TULIP?”  Click here to read it. Tiptoeing through (the History of) the TULIP The earliest name clearly connected to the TULIP seems to be Cleland Boyd McAfee. Born in Missouri in 1866, McAfee became a prominent leader in the Presbyterian Church. He moved to Union Theological […]

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Filed Under: PROOF Tagged With: Calvinism, church history, PROOF, TULIP

PROOF: Who Invented the TULIP? (Part 1)

4th August 2014

Chances are, if you’ve ever heard of the “five points of Calvinism,” you heard them first in the form of a flower—a tulip, to be exact. If your earliest awareness of these points was anything like mine, it began with the fallenness of humanity and ended with the security of the believer, with the most […]

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Filed Under: PROOF Tagged With: Calvinism, church history, PROOF, TULIP

PROOF: The Pirates are Coming

11th July 2014

PROOF and the doctrines of grace are the theme for this year’s Vacation Bible School at Sojourn Community Church—and it’s all wrapped up in a high-seas pirate adventure! Look carefully in the video, and you’ll see PROOF coauthor Timothy Paul Jones falling to the deck with the rest of the Sojourn VBS pirate crew. Be […]

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Filed Under: Blog, PROOF, Video

PROOF: Cutting through the Confusion about What to Call “the New Calvinism” (Part 2)

25th June 2014

For part one of this series on naming the “New Calvinism,” click here. A Trinity of “Neo’s”: Neo-Calvinist, Neo-Puritan, Neo-Reformed The relatively recent introduction of “neo-Calvinist” to describe the latest resurgence of interest in Reformation theology has muddied the semantic waters even more—but not because “neo-Calvinist” or “new Calvinist” carries too many different meanings (not […]

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Filed Under: Blog, PROOF Tagged With: Calvinism, New Calvinism, PROOF, Reformed theology

PROOF: Cutting through the Confusion about What to Call “the New Calvinism” (Part 1)

24th June 2014

The mention of Calvinism may provoke revulsion or comfort—but it rarely produces apathy. “Calvinism,” journalist H.L. Mencken opined in 1937, “occupies a place in my cabinet of private horrors but little removed from that of cannibalism.” Mencken included these words in his obituary for J. Gresham Machen, a Presbyterian theologian who whispered on his deathbed, […]

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Filed Under: Blog, PROOF Tagged With: Abraham Kuyper, Calvinism, New Calvinism, PROOF, Synod of Dort

PROOF: PROOF and Union with Christ

18th June 2014

By Garrick Bailey The New Testament provides extensive witness to the oneness between Christ and Christians. According to Paul, this oneness, through the Holy Spirit, is the foundation for the unity of the church (Eph 4:1-6). Historically, this concept of oneness found predominantly in the writings of the apostles John and Paul has been called […]

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Filed Under: Blog, PROOF Tagged With: New Testament, PROOF, union with Christ

PROOF: A Quick Overview of a New Acronym

17th June 2014

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Filed Under: Blog, PROOF Tagged With: Daneil Montgomery, doctrines of grace, PROOF

PROOF: Planned Grace and the Sovereignty of God

16th June 2014

By Wyatt Graham R. K. McGregor wrote No Place for Sovereignty in 1996, launching a detailed critique of Freewill Theism. In place of Freewill Theism, Wright proposes a reformed model of God’s sovereignty over human freedom. Following the long tradition of Reformed Theology, Wright holds to a theology of God’s sovereignty derived from Scripture and […]

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Filed Under: Blog, PROOF Tagged With: grace, PROOF, sovereignty

PROOF: An Interview with Justin Taylor

12th June 2014

Justin Taylor, senior vice president and publisher for books at Crossway and blogger for The Gospel Coalition, recently had a conversation with PROOF authors Daniel Montgomery and Timothy Paul Jones about grace, Calvinism, and the purpose of PROOF. You open the book by talking about how we live in a delusion from which we need […]

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Filed Under: Blog, PROOF Tagged With: Justin Taylor, PROOF

PROOF: #24HoursUntilPROOF Winners

27th May 2014

The winners of today’s contest were Mark Kuykendall and Bill Haynes! Both of them will be receiving free, signed copies of PROOF: Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace. There will be one last giveaway tomorrow, on the day the book is released, so keep on posting!

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Filed Under: In the News, PROOF Tagged With: PROOF

PROOF: What Is Forever Grace? #24HoursUntilPROOF

26th May 2014

“Forever grace”? You mean, once you’re saved, you can never lose your salvation? And so, if someone says they’ve trusted Jesus and then spends their life in love with sin, they’re still Christians, right? Maybe you’ve heard that line of reasoning at some point in your life. So have we–but such thinking isn’t even close […]

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Filed Under: Blog, PROOF Tagged With: forever grace, grace, perseverance of the saints, PROOF

PROOF: #2DaysUntilPROOF Winners

26th May 2014

The winners of today’s contest were Tim Hawkins and Kenneth Bruce! Both of them will be receiving free, signed copies of PROOF: Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace.

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Filed Under: In the News, PROOF Tagged With: PROOF

PROOF: A Short Review of PROOF #3DaysUntilProof

24th May 2014

The following is a review of PROOF found in the May 2014 issue Towers Magazine, the campus newspaper for The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.   A couple of years ago, violinist Joshua Bell showed up at a metro station in Washington, D.C., took out his violin and started to play. The casually dressed violinist played as hundreds of people walked […]

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Filed Under: Blog, PROOF, Uncategorized Tagged With: doctrines of grace, New Calvinism, PROOF

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