by Bob | Nov 11, 2024 | Common Grace, John Calvin
A Word from Bob You’re reading part of a series of posts on Reformed thinking on common grace. For a collation of all of my posts on common grace, see: Common Grace and Biblical Counseling: Wisdom from Reformed Theologians. No. I do not think John Calvin was an...
by Bob | Nov 10, 2024 | Common Grace
A Word from Bob You’re reading the first of a three-part blog mini-series on Cornelious Van Til and common grace. In Part 2 (Cornelius Van Til on Common Grace: In His Own Words), I focus on Van Til’s beliefs about common grace and how they relate to the use or...
by Bob | Oct 14, 2024 | Bavinck, Common Grace
The Noetic Effect of Common Grace and the Noetic Effect of Sin According to the Reformed doctrine of common grace, God bestows goodness to the unregenerate, enables them to want to do acts of common goodness, and produces non-saving influences of biblical truth on...
by Bob | Sep 14, 2024 | Common Grace, David Powlison
A Word from Bob There is much discussion these days in the modern biblical counseling world concerning how the Reformed doctrine of common grace relates to the biblical counselor’s attitude toward, the use or non-use of, the engagement with, and the evaluation of...
by Bob | Jul 1, 2024 | Common Grace
A Word from Bob: Common Grace and Biblical Counseling Free Resource: For a free 90-page, 35,500-word PDF of this post, visit: Common Grace and Biblical Counseling: Wisdom from Reformed Theologians. In 2022, I began sharing posts where I collated quotes from Reformed...
by Bob | Apr 24, 2024 | Common Grace, David Powlison
“Cherry-Picking” Powlison Recent writings in the modern biblical counseling movement have been using David Powlison’s teachings in a “gate-keeping” way. “David Powlison taught _____; so anyone who sways from _____ is not really a true biblical counselor.” These...
