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Thomas J. Nettles

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Thomas J. Nettles is a Baptist church historian and professor emeritus of historical theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. His three-volume By His Grace and For His Glory is the definitive study of Calvinism in Southern Baptist history, and he has written major biographies of James Petigru Boyce and B. H. Carroll.

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Creeds & Confessions1

Are Creeds Appropriate for Bible Believing Baptists
Dr. Tom Nettles[/caption] The effort to derive positive benefit from confessions seems so strange to some today that it can hardly be distinguished from the scary "C" word, "creedalism." Though there are valid historical and practical distinctions between the use of statements of faith as a creed…

Prayer & Fasting1

Concerts of Prayer
Ordinary Prayer. Scripture leaves the Christian no doubt about the duty of prayer. 'You ought always to pray, and not to faint,' our Lord said (Luke 18:1), and Paul exhorts, Pray without ceasing' (I Thess. 5:17). Our dependence on God for all things fills the believer most especially in times of…

The Rise & Demise of Calvinism Among Southern Baptists
[/caption] In Search of Restoration in the Land A woman of Shunem had house and land. Her recognition of God's goodness to her was demonstrated in the care she gave to God's prophet, Elisha. God had also twice blessed her with one son. His conception was God's gift, and, when he died as a child…