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REASSIGNED is now available.

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  by Bart Denny After a lot of writing, rewriting, cutting, adding, checking sources, arguing with sentences, and wondering more than once whether this thing would ever actually be finished, I’m happy to say that my new book is now available on Amazon . Reassigned: Military Lessons for Ministry Leadership grew out of a question I’ve been wrestling with for years: What happens to everything the military formed in us when the uniform comes off? For me, the answer became especially important when my own life took an unexpected turn. I spent nearly twenty-two years in the U.S. Navy. I served on submarines and destroyers, commanded two coastal patrol ships, deployed overseas, and eventually finished my military career on a major combatant command staff. Years later, I found myself in seminary and then in pastoral ministry. Those two worlds can feel very far apart. And they are. A church is not a warship. A pastor is not a commanding officer. Church members are not sailors who...
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Is the Reformed Doctrine of Reprobation a Necessary Corollary to the Doctrine of Election?

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 This paper will critique the Reformed doctrine of reprobation, as held by the Reformed confessions of faith, particularly the Canons of Dort . This paper will examine historical, logical, philosophical, and (especially) biblical arguments both in favor of and against Reformed reprobation. In particular, this paper will evaluate whether Romans 9 truly supports a the Dortian view. Ultimately, the author will demonstrate that the pre-Augustinian church, logic, Romans 9 in particular, and the balance of the biblical witness, in general, provide little convincing support in favor of the Calvinist view of reprobation. [1] Few evangelicals disagree that the Bible teaches predestination, especially when it comes to election of some to salvation. Most evangelicals also agree that not everyone is saved, so then, not all of humanity is among the elect—they are reprobate. Says Boettner, “Those who hold the doctrine of Election but deny that of Reprobation can lay but little claim to consist...
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