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The Immeasurable Greatness of His Power

February 1, 2021 by Allen Nelson IV Leave a Comment

We are working through the book of Ephesians at Perryville Second Baptist Church. Recently, we came upon Ephesians 1:19 where Paul prays that the Ephesians would know what is the immeasurable greatness of God’s power toward believers. It’s a really great prayer. And it’s an important truth for us today. I’m sure you’ve heard some wrong ways […]

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: Ephesians, Glorification, Perseverance, power, regeneration, sanctification

Christianity is Supernatural

August 26, 2020 by Allen Nelson IV

The following is an excerpt from my forthcoming book — A Change of Heart Christianity is supernatural. Left to ourselves we do not fear God, seek God, truly understand God, or care about God’s glory at all. Without the Holy Spirit, we don’t even want to know the problem, much less possess the means or […]

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: a change of heart, regeneration, supernatural

Augustine vs. Pelagius

August 4, 2020 by Allen Nelson IV

The Debate In the 5th century — the early 400s — there was a controversy in the church between two men, Augustine and Pelagius, over God’s grace in salvation. Pelagius essentially argued in such a way that would minimize the necessity of regeneration. He taught against men being guilty because of Adam’s sin and against […]

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: Augustine, Church History, free will, new birth, Pelagius, regeneration

A Primer on Jacob Arminius, John Wesley, and Charles Finney

July 30, 2020 by Allen Nelson IV

Jacob Arminius and John Wesley Jacob Arminius (1560-1609), in response to William Perkins, wrote, “No one believes, without the exercise of his will. But the actual exercise of the will to believe is a different thing from the ability to will to believe; the latter belongs to all men, the former to the regenerate only, […]

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: charles finney, Church History, jacob arminius, John Wesley, monergism, new birth, regeneration

4 Conversion Stories

May 13, 2020 by Allen Nelson IV

John Wesley I disagree with Wesley on several important doctrinal points. But consider how he recounts his own testimony from May 24, 1738: “In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he […]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Augustine, biography, charles wesley, conversion, John Bunyan, John Wesley, regeneration, testimony

You Must be Born Again: Make Regeneration Great Again

March 16, 2020 by Allen Nelson IV

In God’s kind providence, it was a biblical understanding of the great doctrine of regeneration that birthed (I’m not sure if I’m intending the pun or not) the evangelical movement of the 18th century. Sadly, it is also a misunderstanding and underemphasis of this doctrine that has contributed to the unraveling of evangelicalism in the […]

Filed Under: Evangelism, Theology Tagged With: born again, Evangelicalism, George Whitefield, gospel, john 3, nicodemus, regeneration, Revival

The Religious Affections and Pastoral Ministry

May 27, 2019 by Allen Nelson IV

Recently, I had the opportunity to preach a message at a Jonathan Edwards conference on The Religous Affections. I’d like to share a few practical applications for pastors when it comes to religious affections. But first: What are Religious Affections? One of Edwards’ most famous works is his Treatise on the Religious Affections. In this book, […]

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: affections, Jonathan Edwards, regeneration, religious, Religious Affections

A Short Recounting of George Whitefield’s Conversion

January 16, 2019 by Allen Nelson IV

Before Lifeway, there was the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. In the Mid-20th Century, this board put out a series of studies for churches to use with their parishioners. One such study was called Soul-Winning Doctrines by J. Clyde Turner (1943). In his section on regeneration, he gives a short recounting of George Whitefield’s […]

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: Church History, George Whitefield, regeneration

Brittany the Broccoli Hater

July 16, 2018 by Allen Nelson IV

It was funny at first. Little two-year-old Brittany’s parents thought it was so cute as she’d spit out the green vegetable and then viciously rub her hands on her tongue as though attempting to erase every shred of taste completely out of her mouth. Well, it was sort of cute actually. The way she’d furrow […]

Filed Under: Evangelism, Theology Tagged With: born again, new nature, regeneration

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