In 2010, B&H published Whosoever Will: A Biblical-Theological Critique of Five-Point Calvinism (ed. David L. Allen and Steve W. Lemke). It arose from the 2008 “John 3:16 Conference.”
This book is much better:
Matthew Barrett and Thomas J. Nettles, eds. Whomever He Wills: A Surprising Display of Sovereign Mercy. 
Cape Coral, FL: Founders, 2012. 401 pp.
Here’s the lineup: [Read more…] about Whomever He Wills: A Surprising Display of Sovereign Mercy
Sort of.
When Alex Crain asked me some questions about Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism back in April, he also asked six other questions:
1. What is the gospel? How can God save me?
Related:
(Foreword by D. A. Carson. Small, short (127 pp.), clear.) (Cf. my review.)Related:
Paul Kjoss Helseth, “Response to William Lane Craig,” in Four Views on Divine Providence (ed. Dennis W. Jowers; Counterpoints; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011), 113 (formatting added):
While Reformed believers are persuaded that faithfulness to the God of the Bible requires us to affirm and really believe that God “works all things according to the counsel of his will” (Eph. 1:11), they acknowledge that many evangelicals find it difficult to swallow what Reformed theologians like Douglas Wilson call “the Godness of God” for reasons having to do with something other than exegesis. [Read more…] about Why Some Reject the Godness of God
We’re scheduled to fly today from Greenville to Green Bay via Detroit (for Northland’s Heart Conference), but snowmageddon in the Midwest is canceling and delaying flights.
“God’s in Charge of the Weather” (from J Is for Jesus ) keeps playing in our heads:
God makes the sun shine;
God makes the rain fall.
God’s in charge of the weather.
God makes the thunder;
God makes the lightning.
God’s in charge of the weather.
God can make it wet or dry;
God’s the big boss of the sky.
God makes the sun shine;
God makes the rain fall.
God’s in charge of the weather.
Sometimes adults benefit more from children’s music than children do.
The sovereign God “decides who will believe and undeservingly be saved and who will rebel and deservingly perish.”
—John Piper, “How God Makes Known the Riches of His Glory to the Vessels of Mercy,” sermon on Rom 9:19–23 (February 16, 2003).
I keep thinking about this statement that John Piper posted three days ago:
God never does only one thing. In everything he does he is doing thousands of things. Of these we know perhaps half a dozen.
Layton Talbert reflects on Job 26:14a: “Behold, these are but the outskirts [“outer fringe,” NIV] of his ways.”
“These are the mere edges of His ways.” The word edges (KJV, “parts”) denotes a termination, a boundary line or coastline, an edge or corner. What we can discern of the infinite God from His works in nature and history are the mere coastlines of the continent of the mind and character of God. Imagine landing for the first time on the seventeenth-century American continent. You have no idea that the sand onto which you step is the fringe of a continuous landmass over 3,000 miles wide and 9,500 miles long. Imagine formulating views of what this whole continent is like based on what you can see from the bay where you drop anchor. Suppose you forge your way five miles inland, or even fifty miles, to get a better idea of what this new country is like. As tangible and verifiable as what you see is, you are experiencing a minuscule fraction of an unimaginable stretch of vast and varied terrain yet to be explored—massive and multiple mountain ranges, trackless prairies, impenetrable forests, mammoth lakes and mighty rivers with deafening waterfalls, swamps and deserts, flora and fauna yet unknown. How much more there is to know about our magnificently infinite God than what we can see from where we are, only eternity can tell.
–Beyond Suffering: Discovering the Message of Job (Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University Press, 2007), 146.
Related: A few years ago I reviewed Talbert’s book and linked to MP3s of his sermons on Job.