So much for diversity and convergence – Southern Baptists ban tongues

Last updated on: September 24, 2017 at 9:02 am By Adrian Warnock

Just when I was begining to think convergence was possible on the charismatic debate the southern baptists IMB have taken a renegade step in my view. They have banned all future missionaries from speaking in tongues. In classical Christian hypocrisy they have decided not to make that ruling retrospective. Anyone currently serving as a missionary can still speak in tongues privately. I cannot see the logic of this decision. If tongues is not of God why permit existing missionaries to... Read more

Arminian Grace?

Last updated on: June 27, 2018 at 11:05 pm By Adrian Warnock

Last night in my offline life I had an interesting conversation about calvinistic theology. Since I have been stressing the charismatic side of my theology for a while I thought perhaps I would emphasize in this post my reformed roots. The trouble with blogs is that all too often the archives disappear into the mists of time and nobody reads them. I linked in my post on defining a reformed charismatic to a number of my old posts including a... Read more

God or Not carnival – miracles

Last updated on: December 1, 2005 at 10:30 pm By Adrian Warnock

Entries for the next God or Not carnival are due this weekend- no later than Sunday. The subject is miracles which might fit with our charismatic debate. Read more

Nominations open for the final warnie award of 2005

Last updated on: December 1, 2005 at 5:36 pm By Adrian Warnock

Its almost the season of goodwill. Now we are actually in the month of December I am happy to start speaking of Christmas. The Warnie awards are my own thank you gift to the Christian blogosphere for giving me such a lot of fun and for continuing to surprise me with the level of appreciation links and readership that comes the way of this blog. Well, Christmas has come early this year! I have decided to give out one more... Read more

Nine minute Narnia supertrailer

Last updated on: November 30, 2005 at 9:43 pm By Adrian Warnock

HT Justin Taylor for this fantastic nine minute preview of the film that many of us have been waiting for all year. Read more

So they didnt throw me out of the reformed blogosphere!

Last updated on: November 30, 2005 at 5:07 pm By Adrian Warnock

With all the recent hullabaloo over things charismatic I honestly thought Id be on a slippery slope towards no longer being seen as a reformed blogger! Imagine my surprise to read this Community Blog emtry: “…..to me, the Calvinist blogosphere is made up of what is endorsed by Tim Challies, Phil Johnson, Modergism.com and Adrian Warnock……”Thats scary stuff! Does that make the four of us some kind of Godfathers or gangsters I ask myself? Read more

What Does a Sovereign Grace Church Look Like?

Last updated on: November 30, 2005 at 12:14 am By Adrian Warnock

Ryan Jones has a great post describing what his reformed charismatic church meetings look like. To be honest though theres a large part of me that says “You really have to be there”. I would encourage those who really want to know what this is like to find a Sovereign Grace, newfrontiers or other reformed charismatic church and visit one sunday- most of us can get at least one sunday off our own meeting. For me one of the biggest... Read more

Confessions of an experiential cessationist

Last updated on: November 29, 2005 at 8:14 am By Adrian Warnock

Pastor Shaun has some really interesting things to say from the cessationist side of the fence. As I have suspected from previous dialogue contrary to the stereotype I had foolishly built up in my mind there are many of them who really do believe in an experiential relationship with God. This encourages me no end for it makes me feel our differences are not so great after all. The people who concern me are the extremists on both sides- the... Read more

Thanksgiving Sermon : The Importance of Gratitude

Last updated on: November 27, 2013 at 4:00 pm By Adrian Warnock

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This sermon from Tope Koleoso was very warmly received at the time. Oddly, it was preached entirely by coincidence on the Thanksgiving weekend as Tope felt prompted to preach on gratefulness. I am thrilled that it is one of his sermons that is the most visited sermon page on this blog, in spite of the fact that all that is available is a link to the mp3 file. I want to give tribute to my pastor, and thank him for... Read more

A Cessationist / Charismatic Question from a reader

Last updated on: November 27, 2005 at 8:30 pm By Adrian Warnock

A Mind Awakeasks “‘what does a reformed charismatic look like in practice?’Answers in a blog post with a comment link here and/or there please….. Read more