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Ten Questions: Homosexuality and the Christian Response

By The Closet Calvinist Homosexuality is sadly a very common topic these days. Ten or eleven states have legalized gay marriage, the Boy Scouts of America is sitting on a fence waiting on opinion polls to decide if th…
Ten Reasons To Not Ask Jesus Into Your Heart

By the Closet Calvinist I received this via a tweet a few days ago. Todd Friel of Wretched Radio and Wretched TV has graciously granted permission to post this article. The original can be found here. I listen to Wretc…
Why Are People So Offended by Calvinism? (Part 2)

By The Closet Calvinist In my previous post I gave my answer as to why people are so offended by Calvinism. There is more to be said on the subject however. This post is a little harder to write, because this post is…
Why are People So Offended by Calvinism? (Part 1)

By The Closet Calvinist I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is th…
Before and After

By Brian King at The Closet Calvinist I was restoring a set of headlights at work the other day. I thought of the parallel between the hazy headlights and the supposedly solid books I was reading that were suggested o…
Sharing the Good News at the Back to the Word of God Conference

By The Closet Calvinist Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”1st Kings 19:18 A few weeks ago I returned from Norway, wher…
J.C. Ryle on the Symptoms of False Doctrine

By The Closet Calvinist I posted these 8 points from J.C. Ryle regarding the symptoms of false doctrine, adapted for Twitter as 9 tweets. I present them here in their non-adapted, unaltered form. Many things combine…
Spontaneous Baptism Explosion

By The Closet Calvinist Spontaneous Baptisms: I came across this document a year or so ago, from a well known, very rapidly growing megachurch. It gives some insights into their practices. I shared it on Twitter last we…
Revelife Reviews: The Conviction to Lead by Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr.

By The Closet Calvinist Leadership is a genre I tend to stay away from. Typically, I would expect leadership books to be shallow, self-centered, and a waste of time. Even more so in the genre of leadership books that…
What's Your Bible Reading Plan?

By The Closet Calvinist The Bible is the best book ever written. I’m sure that is due to the fact that it was written by God, through human hands. Because it is the best book ever written, I try to read it every y…