Sowing & Reaping: Previewing the Free Will Baptist National Convention
Between July 27 and 30, thousands of Free Will Baptists will converge on Forth Worth, Texas for their annual National Convention. This will mark the 78th time they have assembled for such an occasion. In many respects this meeting will be like previous meetings: reports will be given, elections held, resolutions brought forward, budgets passed, seminars provided, worship services conducted, and more. At the same time, this Convention...
Thomas Monck: A Cure for the Cankering Error of the New Eutychians
As a young man, when my Sunday School teacher or pastor began talking about how God would use my spiritual gifts for His glory, I would say to myself, “I’m just an Average Joe.” After all, I was raised in a rural Tennessee community of tobacco farmers. I am descended from north Alabama and South Carolina carpenters, share croppers, and itinerant pastors. And though both of my parents are very intelligent, they’re just regular folks....
Thomas Grantham: Christianismus Primitivus
Thomas Grantham lived in an age when kings were beheaded, national church structures were dissolved, and Baptists were regularly imprisoned. Grantham was a prolific theologian, a farmer, and a tender shepherd of souls. He staunchly defended Baptist beliefs and heralded universal religious freedom. Thomas Grantham (1633/34-1692) was born in Hatton, England, a region near Lincolnshire. Like many seventeenth-century figures, his early...
Jacobus Arminius: On Predestination & Election (Part 2 of 2)
In Monday’s post, we introduced Arminius’ theology of election. We began by defining it as God’s eternal decree, according to His good pleasure, with its basis in Christ. We considered the important role of Trinitarian grace in Arminius, which takes all boasting away from man. Finally, we examined Arminius’ view of foreknowledge, which speaks to the fact rather than the cause of a given event. Thus established, we now consider what...
Jacobus Arminius: On Predestination & Election
During the month of June 2014, the Helwys Society Forum (“HSF”) is emphasizing General Baptist writers, works, and ideas. Free Will Baptists who take their spiritual heritage seriously must embrace the privilege and responsibility to know who our leaders were (and are) and what they taught (and teach). Thus far, Forum contributors have considered Thomas Helwys’ A Short and Plaine Proof and A Short Declaration of the Mystery of...
The Satisfaction of Sonship
by Frank Owens Two scenes. Two sons. Scene #1: One of the coldest winters in thirty years had sequestered the two of us in a Louisville apartment. Jesse was taking his first class in a new degree at Southern Seminary. We were also trying to turn student housing into a home for he and Tiffany. Every brush stroke and turn of the roller was a labor of love. I was a father satisfied with a son. Scene #2: We raised our voices with hundreds...
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