What to name this blog?
So I think I found a name for this blog. Of course, almost more important than the actual name is the url (in my opinion). Because of the nature of url’s, the url for a blog has to be tight, concise, and to the point. I wanted something that would be thought provoking of course, but not something screaming of Calvinism (see the description of this blog). I do want people to read this after all. The focus of this blog is theology, so the word “theoblogical” popped into my head. But wouldn’t you know it, the url was already taken. Actually, the blog it belongs to looked fairly interesting. So I gave “theological” a try, and low and behold, it wasn’t taken. So for now I will go with http://theological.tumblr.com with the name “A Theological Work in Progress”. It still doesn’t feel like “the one”, but it will do for now.
Let me know what you think.
Indian Man: What are you doing in this place?
Francis: We were on a spiritual journey, but it didn’t pan out
The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox’s gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.
I have my own private 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 the gospel, and nothing else. I do not believe we can preach the gospel, if we do not preach justification by faith, without works; nor unless we preach the sovereignty of God in His dispensation of grace; nor unless we exalt the electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, conquering love of Jehovah; nor do I think we can preach the gospel, unless we base it upon the special and particular redemption of His elect and chosen people which Christ wrought out upon the cross; nor can I comprehend a gospel which lets saints fall away after they are called, and suffers the children of God to be burned in the fires of damnation after having once believed in Jesus. Such a gospel I abhor.
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Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon
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