The Tulip Driven Life

By: Thomas Booher I have been blogging on the Tulip Driven Life for several years now. Over time I have amassed a small readership. I have been told by some of you how much you appreciate this blog and the content on it. For that I am very thankful. Some of you who appreciate this blog are not Calvinists yourself. It isn't necessarily that you think it is evil like many who reject Calvinism do, or that it is some man made system imposed upon Scripture, but rather you don't see it as a necessary conclusion from Scripture. Perhaps you also do not see the importance of holding to the doctrines of grace, and therefore you have never taken it upon yourself to study them and determine whether or not they are scriptural. What I want to show is that Calvinism is both biblical and necessary. So much so, in fact, that one cannot reject Calvinism without also rejecting much of Scripture. Moreover, to reject Calvinism is to reject the clearest expression of the gospel and to distort ...

By: Thomas Booher I was at a wedding over the weekend. I was the best man. It was a nice wedding, albeit a warm one. My wife and I got to stay in a nice condo out by the beach with a bunch of other people that were part of the wedding party. This is the first time in two years now that I have not been a Bible college student and surrounded by reformed people. The two years before the last two I had never been surrounded by reformed people. I like the exposure, and conversely I like the fellowship with other Calvinists as well. It's easy to think everyone is reformed when you are around reformed people, and it's easy to think no one is reformed when you are not. The truth is, most people are not reformed here in the United States. The wedding reminded me of that, as my wife returned to our room at the condo and informed me that she overheard in a conversation one young fellow saying "theology doesn't really matter" to another young fellow. She found that har...