DG website crashes …

… at least that’s my prediction.  With the $5 book sale underway, I visited the site this morning and my browser timed out several times trying to load their store home page.

John Piper seems to think that this $5 book sale is crazy and not quite sure what to make of it.

In other news, Mark Dever writes the first of a ten part series on why the resurgence of Calvinism.  He believes that Spurgeon was instrumental.  Dever quotes Spurgeon’s sermon on 1Cor 1:23-24:

“I have my own private opinion, that there is no such thing as
preaching Christ and him crucified, unless you preach what now-a-days
is called Calvinism. I have my own ideas, and those I always state
boldly. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism. Calvinism is the gospel,
and nothing else. I do not believe we can preach the gospel, if we do
not preach justification by faith without works; not unless we preach
the sovereignty of God in his dispensation of grace; nor unless we
exalt the electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, conquering love
of Jehovah; nor, I think, can we preach the gospel, unless we base it
upon the peculiar redemption which Christ made for his elect and chosen
people; nor can I comprehend a gospel which lets saints fall away after
they are called, and suffers the children of God to be burned in the
fires of damnation, after having believed. Such a gospel I abhor. The
gospel of the Bible is not such a gospel as that. We preach Christ and
him crucified in a different fashion, and to all gainsayers we reply,
“We have not so learned Christ.”

I’m sure John Piper and his contemporaries had something to do with it also!