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I Was Helped by a Hypocrite - [image: I Was Helped by a Hypocrite] I’d been a believer for a year when I met Walt. He captivated a crowd when he preached. His counsel was pivotal in my ...

Mardin on the Margins– Part Two - There is a fine little archaeology museum in Mardin and the following pictures come from there. I’m thankful we got to visit it. This is the view from the...

Why It’s All Your Fault - The gospel of Jesus Christ is how the gravest injustice in the history of the world became the most gracious invitation for all eternity to come. The pos...

Has Adler Proven God’s Existence? - Here I continue discussion of philosopher Mortimer Adler’s book How to Think about God: A Guide for the 20th-Century Pagan with chapters 14 and 15: A Truly...

Menguasai Permainan Dadu Online: Panduan Lengkap 2026 - Pelajari strategi, tips, dan trik untuk menguasai permainan dadu online, meningkatkan peluang menang, dan bermain dengan bijak. The post Menguasai Permai...

What we learned from Rand Paul’s release of the #FauciDiary - Well, this is the big story of the week, so I have to write something about it. Probably, no website has paid a higher price for reporting on inconvenient ...

Notes Along the Way 3.2 -- The Scholarly Atmosphere - Continued from the previous post ________________________ 10. I haven't said much lately about the New Testament Seminar. I mentioned that we went through...

The Silly Search for Free Will - Essay by: Dan Kent Have you ever been out toodling around in your car when a sudden suspicion strikes you that something is wrong—with the car? Maybe the...

The Arminian Magazine Volume 9 (Spring 1990) - Please click on the link to view The Arminian Magazine 9 (Spring 1990). The post The Arminian Magazine Volume 9 (Spring 1990) first appeared on Society o...

Cyprian of Carthage and the Bishop of Rome - Back in April, I ordered, received and read Casey J. Chalk’s book, *The Obscurity of Scripture - Disputing Sola Scriptura and the Protestant Notion of Bi...

Creation and Sacramental Participation: Hans Boersma and the Recovery of Christian Platonism - Creation and Sacramental Participation: Hans Boersma and the Recovery of Christian Platonism. Paradigms of Creation and God. PCG 2/4. In the previous post,...

Between Jesus and Paul: where did it all go right? - Between Jesus and Paul: where did it all go right? Andrew Perriman Mon, 07/20/2026 - 09:50 The relationship between Jesus and Paul is much disputed. You w...

Is church hopping a sin? - Most American Christians would probably be surprised to learn that church hopping used to be considered a bad thing. Even worse was setting up a new church...

Do the Gospels Contain Eyewitness Testimony? An Overlooked Aspect of the Debate - Since the Gospels are Greco-Roman biographies, we should not be surprised that their authors would want to include eyewitness testimony. After all, the p...

Brief Interlude - I haven’t written anything recently because I am recovering from foot surgery and find typing while my foot is higher than my heart inconvenient. In retire...

The United Methodist Church and Asbury Theological Seminary - The United Methodist Church recently announced that the graduates of Asbury Theological Seminary will no longer be accepted for ordination in the denomin...

Was God’s Choice of His People Through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Unconditional and Arbitrary? - Question: Was He helpless to save them? God chose Abraham and Israel not because of anything wonderful about them, but because He determined to be gracious...

2026 Wesley Studies Symposium - Registration is now open for the 2026 Wesley Studies Symposium on April 28 at Tyndale University, featuring Dr. David Bundy. Dr. Bundy, who currently serve...

Annihilationism: Destroying Death & Destruction - I believe misunderstanding how the Bible uses the words death and destroy, is the foundation of sand on which the doctrine of annihilationism (aka., condit...

The Dates of Jesus' Earthly Sojourn - As best I can piece together, with a fair amount of speculation, these are the dates of the hallmark moments of Jesus' walk amongst us... *Birth*: on or ...

What if Charles Wesley Had Written Joy to the World? - Charles Wesley doesn’t need anybody to stick up for him when it comes to Christmas songs: The man gave us Hark the Herald Angels Sing, after all. And if ...

The Wideness of the Sea: How to be Evangelical and Gay Affirming - Four days ago, I published my eighteenth book: The Wideness of the Sea: How to be Evangelical and Gay Affirming. I started working on this book in about ...

Political Islam, Arab Imperialism & Myths of Equality - Political Islam, Arab Imperialism & Myths of Equality – A Historical Investigation *Political Islam*—often called *Islamism*—is more than a set of ...

New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible Volume 2: D-H -

The Story of the Early Church – Part 3 - At my local church I’m currently teaching an eight week Sunday School class about the story of early Christianity. As part of that, I will make a YouTube v...

Changes Here at My Blog - The time has come for me to move on from the blogger platform. I have been blogging here since December of 2005, and it has been a great run! I am not go...

An Exchange on "A Critique of Limited Atonement" by David Allen in Calvinism: A Biblical and Theological Critique - Several weeks ago, I posted a mini-review of Calvinism: A Biblical and Theological Critique on my Facebook feed. I gave it favorable remarks specifically h...

Common enemy: a hollow slogan for solidarity in Myanmar - ...how to divide power between the NUG and the ethnic states, and protect sub-minorities within minority states? The post Common enemy: a hollow slogan f...

Monday quote - The vileness of the means begets the vileness of the result. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008). “Live Not by Lies.” 1974.

How Convenient! Part 2: Zayd, Saowda & Rayhana - Muhammad's quest to marry Zaynab involved multiple prophecies and touched many lives. Here we learn about his special relationship with Zayd, his not-so-...

Rom 3:21-26 – Translates, Paraphrase, Notes - Translation 21 But now, apart from the Torah, God’s righteousness has been manifested, being witnessed by the Torah and the Prophets. 22 God’s righteousne...

A final farewell - This site has not be maintained since 2013 but has been kept intact for archival purposes. MethodistThinker.com will shut down permanently on Jan. 16, 2021.

Paul didn’t teach unconditional election. Here’s why. - God’s act of election shows up multiple times in 1 & 2 Thessalonians. Calvinist interpreters tend to read these passages as evidence for their doctrine of ...

Linguistics and Loanwords in the Gospel of Mark - Scholarly readers of the Gospel of Mark have long noted the conspicuous presence of non-Greek terms and phrases. A forthcoming article sets the analysis o...

Response to "Got Questions: Limited Atonement- Is It Biblical" Part II - In the last post I was looking at an article on Limited Atonement. There I talked about how the issue of Limited vs. Unlimited Atonement has less to do wit...

New Zealand Atrocity: Uncomfortable Truths -

Finishing Well - *The Lord of the Rings* trilogy tells the tale of nine companions who set off for Mordor with the goal of destroying the Dark Lord Sauron’s ring. Frodo, th...

A Response to “5 Myths About Calvinism” - Calvinistic scholar, Dr. Greg Forester, just released an article titled “Five Myths about Calvinism” through Crossway and I would like to provide a critiqu...

Hymn of the day - Praise the Lord who reigns above And keeps His court below; Praise the holy God of love And all His greatness show; Praise Him for His noble deeds; Praise ...

Pope Francis Wants to Change the Translation of the Lord’s Prayer (and he’s right) - A Pope’s not right about everything, and with Pope Francis, numerous Catholics will tell you he is not right about much. But I think he has been right o...

Interview with Andrew Loke on Christology - ‘Christology’ is a subject widely discussed by academic historians and Christian theologians around the world. In Malaysia, it has recently gained tractio...

Book Review: The Little Book of God, Mind, Cosmos and Truth By Kenneth Francis - The strength of this book is simultaneously its greatest drawback: it is too short – just 25,000 words. Its very brevity is, of course, central to its dy...

My Compassion Radio interview on the Holy Land (part 2) - Hey Dojo readers, Here is part 2 from my interview with Compassion Radio about Christians in Bethlehem. If you missed part 1 you can find it at https://jms...

J. Matthew Pinson - “Individual Election, Corporate Election, and Arminianism” - "Individual election, Corporate election, and Arminianism

Book Review: Grace for All - John D. Wagner assembled inputs from a wide ranges of authors to put together Grace for All: The Arminian Dynamics of Salvation. The book starts off wit...

Selling Fetal Body Parts is NOT the Primary Moral Issue - The post Selling Fetal Body Parts is NOT the Primary Moral Issue appeared first on Parchment and Pen Blog.

my last Patheos post… - Hi everyone, Here is the link to today’s post at my new website. It’s about following Jesus. And speaking of following, this is my last post here at Patheo...

Back to the Basics: Building Blocks for a Sound Theodicy, Pt. 3-B: Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility, Continued - *In my last post, I started an examination of Genesis and what the first biblical book tells us about divine sovereignty and human responsibility. We se...

James White comments on a sermon by James McCarthy, author of "John Calvin Goes to Berkeley" - James McCarthy: “…frankly, God doesn’t love you strictly because of yourself; He loves you because of His Son. Didn’t the Lord Jesus teach that...what d...

The emperor has no clothes, or The illusion of authority in the UMC - Every four years, elected delegates from across the world meet at a General Conference of the United Methodist Church. Among the most discussed and debated...

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