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Frank Turk on the Virginia Tech murders and the Gospel.

Rome and the Reformation in Review

I want to highlight a great series that has been posted on Pulpit Magazine on the theology of the Roman church, namely the sufficiency of Scripture and the doctrine of faith alone. The articles by John MacArthur are great, but I specifically want to point you to the comments under each post where Papists weigh in with their rebuttals.

Read their rebuttals and read also the responses from Protestants in the comments. It may take a while, but it’s worth it to get a full orbed understanding of this discussion and arguments for evangelizing those of the Roman bishop’s persuasion. Here are the links to this series.

• Rome in Review
• Scripture, Tradition, and Rome (Part 6)
• Scripture, Tradition, and Rome (Part 5)
• Scripture, Tradition, and Rome (Part 4)
• Scripture, Tradition, and Rome (Part 3)
• Scripture, Tradition, and Rome (Part 2)
• Scripture, Tradition, and Rome (Part 1)
• Mother Church?

Many of us have friends that are currently in the Roman tradition or are flirting with “crossing the Tiber” into that tradition. We need to be prepared to defend the faith once for all delivered to the saints.

King Pyro on Lordship-Salvation

Justin Taylor, of Between Two Worlds bloggage fame, has put together an indexed list of Phil Johnson’s series of articles on his personal experience with the “Lordship-Salvation” debate. Go to Taylor’s links and you can read the Pyromaniac’s posts in order.

After our discussion on how we don’t get the weight of our sin, I thought this would be good reading. I am still reading through them myself. I think this issue is where the rubber meets the road in our race to the Throne. If we can’t live under the Lordship of Christ, there’s some serious questioning that needs to take place about the status of our faith. Again, none of us will be perfect this side of Heaven, but if we are not growing in the fruits of the spirit, we need to take a hard look at the status of the tree.