Written by Pastor Josh Merrell of South Side Baptist Church in Weatherford, Texas. Calvinism Is Unnecessary — Part 1 In my three most recent articles I have argued that Calvinism in its most popular form[1] cannot be true because it either rests on positions that are internally contradictory or it collapses into absurdity.[2] Some reformed…
Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. (Prov. 27:1) I started out on my typical morning run of three miles at Boomer Lake in Stillwater, Oklahoma. It was about 5:45 a.m. and temperature in the 20s. The early chest pains in the first mile were easily…
Article written by Pastor Dan Preston of Bethany Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas. A memorial that I visited in the Philippines occupies 152 acres on a prominent plateau and is visible at a distance from the east, south and west. It contains the graves of 17,201 soldiers, most of whom lost their lives in New…
Written by Pastor Josh Merrell of South Side Baptist Church in Weatherford, Texas. Calvinism Violates Aseity — Part 3 In the previous article, it was demonstrated that no justification is adequate for dealing with the logical and moral problems of the Calvinist account of sovereignty (i.e., S[1]) because any such strategy inevitably compromises the aseity…
Article written by Jason Jett, the associate pastor of Bible Baptist Church in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Editor Wayne Hardy’s editorial, The Ready Writer, which normally appears on this page, is not appearing in this edition of The Baptist Times because Bro. Hardy unexpectedly had to have open-heart surgery and currently is recovering at home. He is showing steady improvement…
