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https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/sin-and-salvation   "Sin and Salvation" “Why do we need to talk about sin? We ought to just talk about the love of God.” This comment was not made by a dedicated liberal. Rather, it was made by a woman who is a member of an evangelical church and has enrolled her children in a Reformed Christian School. She does not seem to have grasped much of the character of Calvinism. Regrettably this comment is not just a strange aberration. In a recently published book, sociologist Alan Wolfe argues that this attitude is wide-spread throughout American religious groups and denominations, including evangelicals. In  The Transformation of American Religion  Wolfe states, “Talk of hell, damnation and even sin has been replaced by a nonjudgmental language of understanding and empathy.” Most American churches and synagogues today are characterized by attitudes and practices which are “joyful, emotional, personal and empathetic on the one hand, impa...

The salvation of God (5)       [Romans 8:29-30]                        Look at Romans 8:29-30: “For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.”   The fourth stage is ‘God justified’ (Rom. 8:30).              Today I want to think about the fourth of the five stages of salvation, the salvation of those whom God justified (v. 30).   This is Westminster Shorter Catechism Q&A 33: (Q) “What is justification?”   (A) “Justification is an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in his sight, only for the right...