On April 24, 2008, Dr. Doug Sweeney and Collin Hansen discussed Hansen’s Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists (Wheaton: Crossway, 2008).
An MP3 of this discussion, sponsored by the Henry Center, is now available from the Henry Center’s media archive (MP3 | video).
Publisher’s Description: From places like John Piper’s den, Al Mohler’s [...]

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Here, John Piper provides a more precise view on the question:
But how should we regard these errors [Wesleyanism and Arminianism] in relationship to the teaching office of the church and other institutions?
Read the complete post here.
John Piper’s, God is the Gospel is a great read. Audio CD also available.

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Jonathan Edwards, in the author’s preface to Freedom of the Will, has this to say about Calvinism, John Calvin, and Calvin’s teaching. I found Edwards comment very insightful given how often individuals are labeled Calvinist.
. . . That the difference of the opinions of those, who in their general scheme of divinity agree with these [...]

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Stetzer is posting the audio of the Building Bridges Conference available through the LifeWay podcast. Here’s the audio available thus far (this will be updated as more are available). Also, Dr. Nettles’ presentation is also now available (click here).

Calvinism and SBC Leadership (Stetzer) – PDF
The Historical Record (Nettles) – PDF
The Historical Record (Dockery) – PDF
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‘Edwards cherished the Calvinist doctrine of the sovereignty of grace. He agreed that Christ died only for the elect and that they alone would experience the supernatural and sovereign “divine influence and operation, by which saving grace is obtained.’
E. Brooks Holifield in ‘Edwards as Theologian’ in The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Edwards, 149.

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Dr. Daniel Akin, president of Southestern Baptist Theological Seminary, provides the following article for SBC Life (April 2006) discussing how Southern Baptists should respond to the relationship between divine sovereignty and human responsibilty.
Although this article is addressed to ‘Southern Baptists’ I find it relevant for all Christian denominations.
Dr. Akin concludes the article with an excerpt [...]

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