Dog-Eat-Dog

But all in fun, of course.

Round the Sphere Again

Has it really been a whole week since I did one of these?

Complementary
Kevin DeYoung tackles a question about the “new Calvinist” associations and their inssistance on complementarianism.

Not-So-Complimentary
In one of the most bizarre tributes I’ve every heard, Tony Campolo celebrates John Calvin’s 500th birthday by telling us that the Calvinist doctrine of total depravity is one of the factors behind the Nazi genocide. (As if Calvinism doesn’t also include the doctrine that all human beings are made in the image of God.) And did you know (so says Campolo) that homosexuals who come out of a Calvinist background feel free to behave licentiously because they know they’re  not one of the elect? But anyone who knows Calvinism enough to comment on it  on the radio should know that Calvinists believe that no one can know that they’re not one of the elect, because God chooses to save all kinds of sinners.

And there’s more: Calvinists think Christians should save their sacrificial giving for causes that help only fellow Christians. No helping world orphans and poor people for Calvinists! Oh, and Calvinism kills missions.

Calvin? He was just a big old meany and anyone who opposed Calvin was in serious trouble. The way it was in Geneva, according to TC, was “Don’t buck Calvin, or they’ll burn you at the stake.” Hey-ho. I wonder how all those Genevan Libertines survived, let alone were elected to town council.

I’m thinking maybe Mr. Campolo doesn’t know there’s a difference between a tribute and a roast. (HT to James White.)

Cutting Edge
Perhaps I was overprotective with my kiddos. HT for this vintage ad: Retro Comedy

Counting Numbers
Catching up with Sherry’s hymn project.

• Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (66)
• Jesus Loves Me (67)
• Children of the Heavenly Father (68). (This was one of my ten favorite hymns. I didn’t expect it to be on the top 100 hymn list, but I’m glad it is. The only other of my favorites on the top 100 list so far has been God Moves in a Mysterious Way.)
• All My Hope on God Is Founded (69)
• Hark the Herald Angels Sing (70)
• Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken (71)
• O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go (72)
• Shout to the Lord (73)

How hath Christ appointed bread and wine to be given and received in the sacrament of the Lord's supper?

Christ hath appointed the ministers of his word, in the administration of this sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, to set apart the bread and wine from common use, by the word of institution, thanksgiving, and prayer; to take and break the bread, and to give both the bread and the wine to the communicants: who are, by the same appointment, to take and eat the bread, and to drink the wine, in thankful remembrance that the body of Christ was broken and given, and his blood shed, for them.[1]

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