My name is Jim Wilson. I am 88 years old, pastor of Word of Life Church in Moscow. I am Douglas Wilson’s father. I am not a regular reader of what goes on in this blog. It would take up too muc...
With regard to the historic Protestant doctrine of regeneration, a lot could be said, and I believe a lot more should be said. One of the things we will discover is that there is more careful nua...
I just finished listening to a talk which addressed the question of whether regeneration should be defined as a change in nature, and was reminded of something from Wodehouse. Some minds are like...
I am currently reading A Humble Inquiry by Jonathan Edwards, in which he explains the reasons why he was putting some doctrinal daylight between himself and his predecessor Solomon Stoddard. And ...
https://dougwils.com/the-church/s16-theology/a-bucket-with-no-bottom.html
In my stack of books being read, there are a handful of writers that are always in there somewhere. I make a constant point of always having a book by Chesterton, Bunyan, Lewis, Thomas Watson . ....
https://dougwils.com/the-church/s16-theology/one-kind-of-baptism-means-two-kinds-of-christian.html
My friend Garry Vanderveen has been kind enough to suggest a side-by-side comparison of what Jim Jordan and I teach on the subject of regeneration, coming to the conclusion that we are not all th...
https://dougwils.com/the-church/s16-theology/making-seneca-crack-up.html
As I never tire of saying, the new birth is not an optional add-on extra. It is absolutely essential, but since we tend to get gummed up on this kind of thing, it is also important to fill that s...
https://dougwils.com/the-church/s16-theology/the-chewy-porter-of-reformation-evangelicalism.html
In a fallen world, there must be an antithesis. But since the devil is the accuser, we should therefore see that his power rests in accusations that misplace the antithesis. Seeing this is the he...
https://dougwils.com/the-church/s16-theology/all-the-condemnation-you-could-ever-want.html
My friend Peter Leithart tags to an argument by Alan Kerr on the Spirit in John 3. Kerr’s argument, in sum, is that in the gospel of John, the Spirit is not given until later in the gospel (Joh...
https://dougwils.com/the-church/s16-theology/dry-bones-reborn.html
So this is how it is possible to be a churchman and an evangelical. Not only is it possible, I believe that rightly understood, the two require each other. We are told that we are supposed to let...
https://dougwils.com/the-church/s16-theology/for-the-church.html