The Tulip Driven Life

I remember having sword drills in elementary school. This is where you are given chapter and verse of a book in the Bible, and then on cue, you search for it. Whoever finds it first gets a point. It was fun, and it might have helped me flip to particular passages more quickly, but it didn't really teach me what the verses actually said. Sometimes we may have read the verses we looked up, I do not remember, but even if we did, the point wasn't really to elaborate on the verse and what it meant, the point was simply to find it. Then I remember going to AWANA'S, or whatever it was called, like twice as a kid. You got points which I think could be redeemed for prizes for quoting verses that you memorized. Of course, we did that in school too. So I still remember the little jingle for, say, Ephesians 4:32. "And be ye kind, one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you you you, Ephesians 4 and 32." I thi

This is my paper for Church History class on the development of modern liberal theology and Arminian/ free will theology. It had to be written in a letter format, so I thought it would be neat, and fitting, to write it as a letter from B.B. Warfield, near his death, to Machen, regarding his concerns for Princeton, which was beginning to slip into liberalism around the time of his death in 1921. REFORMATION BIBLE COLLEGE LETTER PAPER PASSING OF THE TORCH CHURCH HISTORY BY THOMAS BOOHER SANFORD, FLORIDA APRIL, 2012 My dear friend and colleague,                 There is a churning in the pit of my stomach. My bones grow weak, and as I approach seventy years of age, I cannot help but wonder with fear and trepidation what the next seventy will hold. I write this letter as a passing of the torch from me to you. Read carefully and take to heart what I have to say, and if the Lord wills, you may be able t