Think Reformed

The discipline of God

Grant Dunlop — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:22:32 +0000

“Positive discipline sounds like a contradiction in terms. Discipline is often seen in punitive terms- and correction and consequences in discipline are clearly necessary-but primarily, discipline is to do with guidance and instructions to teach and enhance a social order where rights and responsibilities are balanced. All students need corrective management: they forget they [...]

Atheism’s Denial

Grant Dunlop — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:03:27 +0000

Well…….it’s been a while since my last post. A lot has been going on in my life recently and it resulted in me deciding to take a leave of absence from anything to do with the site. Recently though, I got an email to remind me the site was due to expire within a few [...]

The Value of Learning History

Grant Dunlop — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:17:25 +0000

In his day, C.S. Lewis talked of the ‘chronological snobbery’ that existed in much of western society. Owen Barfield (a friend of Lewis’) stated that chronological snobbery can be defined as being the belief that, “intellectually, humanity languished for countless generations in the most childish errors on all sorts of crucial subjects, until it was [...]

Upcoming Reviews

Grant Dunlop — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:35:46 +0000

The past few months have been pretty busy, with all the planning for my move to London, redesigning of the website etc. As a result, I haven’t posted as many articles and reviews as I would have liked. Thankfully, my move to London is just around the corner, all the plans are coming together nicely [...]

The Message of the Resurging Calvinism

Grant Dunlop — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:31:07 +0000

With a name like Think Reformed, it’s pretty obvious that I’m going to turn a lot of potential readers off my site. Sometimes they have a disliking for reformed theology and sometimes they just haven’t got a clue what it’s all about. And that’s ok. I was once in that boat. However, that all changed [...]

The Generation that the Church is in danger of failing………..

Grant Dunlop — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:09:59 +0000

When Jesus asks Peter to “feed my lambs” after he’s been resurrected (John 21:15), he’s not talking about engaging them in a Bible study. Very few people were ever able to read back then, and there were very few copies of Scripture. When Jesus told Peter (who is a type of medieval Everyman – a [...]

“Red-Letter Christians”: A Bad Idea with a Bad Name, Alas

Grant Dunlop — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:08:47 +0000

Being a “red-letter Christian” sounds like a good idea, doesn’t it? Tony Campolo, professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University, activist, pundit, and provocateur, tells us that he wants to obey the very words of Jesus, those words that in previous generations of Bible publishing were printed in red. His comrade Jim Wallis of the [...]

Identifying Our Idols in the Pursuit of Contentment

Grant Dunlop — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:15:54 +0000

“If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning in life, and identity, then it is an idol”- Tim Keller, Counterfeit Gods. This is a really challenging statement by Tim Keller because our hearts are perpetual idol factories…and our pursuit of idols is like drinking from broken cisterns (see Jeremiah 2)- we can [...]

Choosing the Ancient Paths

Grant Dunlop — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:22:13 +0000

In light of the recent Rob Bell controversy I thought that the following words might prove insightful and challenging for my readers. They were penned by Phil Ryken (recently established as President of Wheaton College) in his book “Courage To Stand: Jeremiah’s Message For Post-Christian Times”. Jeremiah 6:16 reads, “This is what the LORD says: [...]

Book Review- A Handful of Pebbles: Theological Liberalism and The Church

Grant Dunlop — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:36:38 +0000

“At first sight the word ‘liberalism’ doesn’t seem threatening in any way. Quite the reverse, it is often associated with ideas like ‘democracy’, ‘freedom’ and ‘generosity of spirit’. However there is something qutie sinister about ‘theological liberalism’; although not a well-defined term, it usually refers to a belief system which rejects the orthodox view of [...]