Read our blog posts on the Canons of Dort, gathered into one list for easy access. New blog posts go up every week. Here you can start from the beginning, or find the posts you’ve missed.
Our blog post content comes from Rev. Paul Treick’s book, Faith of Our Fathers, Living Still: A Study of the Five Points of Calvinism, available for purchase. It is posted with the gracious permission of the author.
- Introduction (1): Faith of Our Fathers
- Introduction (2): The Five Points of Calvinism
- Introduction (3): The Doctrine of Salvation
- God’s Sovereignty (1): Sovereignty Defined and God’s Eternal Nature
- God’s Sovereignty (2): Creator and Self-Sufficient
- God’s Sovereignty (3): Creatures are Dependent
- God’s Sovereignty (4): Absolute Power, Glorious Reign
- God’s Sovereignty (5): Love, Mercy, and Grace
- Arminius and the Remonstrants
- Arminianism and the Canons of Dort (1): Arminianism’s Unintended Consequences
- Arminianism and the Canons of Dort (2): Humanism
- Arminianism and the Canons of Dort (3): The Synod
- The Doctrine of Total Depravity (1): Free Will
- The Doctrine of Total Depravity (2): Sin
- The Doctrine of Total Depravity (3): Sin’s Origin
- The Doctrine of Total Depravity (4): Imputation
- The Doctrine of Total Depravity (5): Necessary Regeneration
- The Doctrine of Total Depravity (6): A Gift, Not Cooperation
- The Doctrine of Total Depravity (7): Common Errors
- The Doctrine of Total Depravity (8): The Importance of Sin as Sin
- The Doctrine of Total Depravity (9): Serious Sin, Serious Salvation
- The Doctrine of Total Depravity (10): What Does the Record Show?
- The Doctrine of Total Depravity (11): A Deadly Serious Matter
- The Doctrine of Total Depravity (12): Biblically Based
- The Doctrine of Total Depravity (13): Scriptural Proofs
- The Doctrine of Total Depravity (14): Slaves to Sin
- The Doctrine of Total Depravity (15): Hell
- The Doctrine of Total Depravity (16): Freed Will, Not Free Will
- The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (1): Based on Total Depravity
- The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (2): Chosen
- The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (3): By Mercy and Grace
- The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (4): Completely Trinitarian
- The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (5): Various Errors
- The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (6): The Fairness Question
- The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (7): the Gospel’s General and Effectual Call
- The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (8): Missions and Success
- The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (9): What About Human Responsibility?
- The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (10): Grace is Owed to None
- The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (11): A Doctrine of Comfort
- The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (12): Scriptural Proofs
- The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (13): Before the Creation of the World
- The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (14): Appointed to Eternal Life
- The Doctrine of Unconditional Election (15): Foreseen and Created
- The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (1): Power or Possibility?
- The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (2): Limited to “His People”
- The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (3): The Lamb and His Sheep
- The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (4): Is It Just?
- The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (5): Universal Benefit?
- The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (6): Universal Application?
- The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (7): and the Mission of the Church
- The Doctrine of Limited Atonement (8): Scriptural Proofs
- The Doctrine of Irresistible Grace (1): A Trinitarian Work
- The Doctrine of Irresistible Grace (2): Inward Call and Freed Will
- The Doctrine of Irresistible Grace (3): Regeneration Precedes Faith
- The Doctrine of Irresistible Grace (4): How the Spirit Works in Us
- The Doctrine of Irresistible Grace (5): Scriptural Proofs
- The Doctrine of Irresistible Grace (6): Scriptural Proofs (Continued)
- The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints (1): Everlasting Assurance
- The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints (2): Is It Up To Us?
- The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints (3): God the Preserver
- The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints (4): Backsliding
- The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints (5): Salvation, Sin, and Church Discipline
- The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints (6): Sin, Not Hypocrisy
- The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints (7): Scriptural Proofs
- The Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints (8): Scriptural Proofs (Continued)
- Conclusion
- Hymn: By Grace Alone