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  1. Jeltja

    I Think I'm a Strict and Particular Baptist

    I was born into a high church, high Calvinistic Continental Reformed Church. My father took us to a Conservative, Mid-Church, High Calvinist Presbyterian church (partly for doctrine issues and partly for geographic ones). Reading John Gill and others has led me, alongside my husband, into a...
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    I was listening to a sermon on the ordinary means of grace and the church earlier.

    I was listening to a sermon on the ordinary means of grace and the church earlier.
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    USA Today warns against using “problematic” words like ‘aloha’ and ‘hola’

    About fifty percent of my neighbors are Hispanic and none of them has ever expressed dissatisfaction with my use of the word 'hola'. These people, who write these articles, are more socially walled in than Evangelicals, they're members of an upper middle class cult that is opposed to...
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    They never were Christians in the true sense, though they might have been in the ordinary sense...

    They never were Christians in the true sense, though they might have been in the ordinary sense of demonstrating assent to Christian doctrine and external behavior fitting to a Christian .
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    How do you know you are a Christian?

    There is no infallible, external way to demonstrate the presence of true faith in Christ. Salvation comes supernaturally and is the secret counsel of God, and our own limited mental and sensory abilities cannot register or measure it. But it is more than a mental belief or an emotional state.
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    Christianity measured against religion.

    I think religion outside of Christian faith communities are essentially human distorted echoes of our proper attitude towards God. Within false religions are elements Christians could assent to and the nonChristian elements depend on characteristics and anthropology of true religiion (perverted...
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    What are you reading?

    Herman Hoeksema's Corrupting the Word of God: A History of the Well-Meant Offer, by the PRC founder.
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    Is Calvinism a heresy?

    I consider Calvinistic particulars to be Orthodox in its essence. Obviously, I am not a ('Roman') Catholic. That being said, Calvinistic Reformed theology has many origins and controversies. As a proponent of some of the views of Hoeksema, John Gill and others I've been accused of HyperCalvinism...
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    The Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin

    I have had Walter Martin's The Kingdom of the Cults for a decade. Although Martin is a bit different from me denominational (I think he was some kind of charismatic, I forget) I find his work to be very well researched and (from my perspective) quite orthodox. I have the revised version put out...
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    Two Secular Books on Christian Reconstruction

    Thank you for sharing this. I had not heard of it. Quoting from the movie description: The Rev. Dave Hill defends a group of Christian home-schooling families after they receive an impromptu inspection from a progressive, local government official who doesn't like what she finds. This is a...
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    Nothing Has Changed....

    I believe these proportions will change as Christ's kingdom is built, but I don't disagree. It's called the narrow path. Calvin estimated between 1/3 to 1/20.
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    Hello

    I have been using the Ron Paul Curriculum for years and find it extremely useful. It fits our values and has some to notch courses that are often neglected in other resources I've looked into. However as we've grown in our faith and are looking to introduce more complex and social subjects we've...
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    Two Secular Books on Christian Reconstruction

    I've just read Christian Reconstruction by McVicar and am currently reading Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America by Crawford Gribben. Christian Reconstruction is an elaborately researched piece of scholarship with unparalleled access to Rushdoony’s library, journal and correspondence...
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    Hello

    Hello, everyone. I am checking out Christian social media to investigate such ones will be appropriate for our oldest when we let him use more internet. In also looking for book reviews, homeschooling resources and people to chat with.