Cheer Up, Calvinist Kid!

December 7, 2009 Posted by David NcloseAuthor: David N Name:
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About: In 2003 I graduated from high school with no set direction for my life. I spent a year in Iowa before returning to California to attend Junior College. I changed majors 3 times; from Physics to Business to Film (as you can see, no direction). I was a Christian, attending church regularly, but furthering the cause of Christ in this fallen world was not a high priority. In 2005 I picked up an issue of TableTalk magazine, and I was re-introduced to the work of R. C. Sproul (whom I had read once in high school). Later that year, while taking a biology class with an ardent atheist professor, I picked up a copy of Lee Strobel's "The Case For A Creator." In the Fall of 2006 I came to Biola University and was introduced to the works of J. P. Moreland and John Mark Reynolds. My fate was sealed. Just a few years ago, I was passionless. Now I have two passions: Studying the Word of God and engaging in the task of Apologetics. 1 Peter 3:15 exhorts all Christians to be ready to give an answer for the hope that we have. My goal is to be able to give my answer articulately and powerfully, but even more importantly, in love. There are many purposes for apologetics, but by far the most important is the opening of minds and the softening of hearts for the work of the Holy Spirit. If we don't care about and pray for those with whom we engage in apologetics, we fail to fulfill this purpose. As a wise man once said, "Take a stand for the Truth, but do it in love fool!" Education Info: --Currently: M.A. in Historical Theology student, Westminster Seminary California --2008: B.A. in Philosophy, Biola University --2006: A.A. in Liberal Arts, Palomar CollegeSee Authors Posts (75)

Dr. John Mark Reynolds has written this rather interesting blog post over at Scriptorium Daily in which he gives ten reasons that “dour” Calvinists ought to cheep up this Christmas. 

As a Calvinist who is neither dour nor “cool” nor anything like Katie Couric (just read the blog post and you’ll understand what I’m talking about), I still found this post quite amusing (if only because it shows all the signs that Dr. Reynolds was very tired with a little too much residual caffine in his system while writing it) and I am definitely cheered up!  The only thing that I still cannot understand is Dr. Reynold’s obsession with John Knox.  It’s really reached an unhealthy level, I think. 

(I just realized that this statue of Knox looks a lot like a grumpy Gandalf and/or Dumbledore.  I guess the Eastern Orthodox don’t have the market cornered on wizards after all!)

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