QUYỀN NĂNG CAO CẢ CỦA ĐỨC CHÚA TRỜI Ở VIỆT NAM (Ê-phê 1:4-5)

Errors of New Apostolic Reformation (NAR)

This so called “Reformation” has nothing to do with the historic Protestant Reformation kicked off by Luther in 1517.

“The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) elevates personal experiences over Scripture, leading believers away from the gospel’s true focus. Its emphasis on power, cultural dominance, and man-centered teachings distorts biblical truth, urging Christians to return to the authority of the Bible alone.”

-Living Waters

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(GSiV: NAR and church worship music: dangers abound; Is “Being Slain in the Spirit” biblical?; Prosperity Gospel? ; Được Thánh Linh Dẫn Dắt của ông Elliff–part 5; Interpreting impressions like “God told me…”; Elliff)

Posted on November 2, 2025 by gsivn111

Helps and Tools, Thinking Biblically

sự hướng dẫn thuộc linh; Giải nghĩa những ấn tượng, sovereign grace materials in Vietnamese; “God told me” and “Hearing God’s voice”; New Apostolic Reformation is bad

Justification and the Reformation: sự xưng công bình

‘Rao giảng và sống bày tỏ sự xưng công bình chỉ bởi đức tin mới tôn vinh hiển Đấng Christ, giải cứu tội nhân đang tuyệt vọng, khích lệ những thánh đồ bất toàn và củng cố các Hội thánh yếu đuối. Đây là một chân lý đầy kinh ngạc — Đức Chúa Trời xưng kẻ có tội là công bình bởi đức tin. “Còn kẻ chẳng làm việc chi hết, nhưng tin Đấng xưng người có tội là công bình, thì đức tin của kẻ ấy kể là công bình cho mình” (Rô-ma 4:5). Lịch sử chứng minh rằng: Rao truyền lẽ thật này sẽ tạo ra, cải cách và phục hưng Hội thánh.’

-Piper (tienphong.org)

Đọc them

(GSiV: Luther, Calvin, Farel, Reformation; Sanctification;

Reformation History: Five Onlys–part 10; Baptist; GSiV Resource Page; Grateful for the Reformation; What is Reformed theology?; A Few Confessions of Faith in Vietnamese; Philadelphia Baptist Confession of Faith)

Posted on October 26, 2025 by gsivn111

Church History, Helps and Tools, Thinking Biblically

Năm Điều Duy Nhất Của Cuộc Cải Chánh; thuyết Calvin ở Việt Nam; truyền thống cải chánh ; thần học cải chánh; thần học cải cách Cuộc Cải Chánh ;, Protestant Reformation; Calvinism in Vietnam; 5 onlys; 5 solas; reformed theology;, reformed churches in Vietnam; reformed tradition;, thuyết Calvin ở Việt Nam; giáo lý của phái Calvin ở Việt Nam; các Hội Thánh cải chánh ở Việt Nam; Ân điển tể trị

Original Sin & Total Depravity series–part 13

Nguyên tội và Hoàn toàn bại hoại

(bại hoại / depravity)

What Is Original Sin?

‘The term “original sin” doesn’t refer to the first sin, committed by Adam, but to the result of that first sin. The Bible asserts not only that we sin a lot but that we’re sinful by nature. Therefore, writes Richard Phillips, “We have an inborn tendency to commit sin.”

As Paul wrote, “Sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned” (Rom. 5:12). All people, both in Paul’s day and ours, have sinned in the past. When did we sin? When Adam sinned. In his first sin, Adam represented his descendants with devastating results.’

-Bateman

Missions and the long patient journey

‘They may be ordinary and unflashy, but healthy churches are the consecrated common sense that builds for eternity. They’re the Bible’s missions strategy. Just as the gospel “sounded forth” from the first-century churches in Macedonia and Achaia (1 Thess. 1:8), so it continues to sound forth from churches today. Sometimes God moves in surprising ways, but generally the harvest doesn’t come immediately. It’s “first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear” (Mark 4:28). The sower doesn’t even know how the seed sprouts. “By itself,” the earth produces grain.’

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(GSiV: Thinking through methods and missions; Expecting Rapid?; Debate about methods of church planting and discipling; Unreached People Groups and Overemphasis on Speed; A Plea for Gospel Sanity in Missions; Dangerous Desire for Church Growth; Miller: Success, Failure, and Grace; Church Growth, Planning, and Multiplication; Starting Churches: Making Disciples; Analysis of T4T; Phương pháp ‘Môn Đồ Hóa Dựa Trên Sự Vâng Phục’ là chủ nghĩa luật pháp phải không?; Rapid; Missions: Success, faithfulness, rapid, deception)

Posted on October 12, 2025 by gsivn111

Evangelism and Church Planting, Helps and Tools, Prayer and Promise, Thinking Biblically

truyền giáo quốc tế; truyền sĩ; rao giảng; truyền giảng;

Missions: Staying and Going (How Senders Win the Nations)

In this article, the author gets at some key issues that especially can help folks think through if they going to live for the Lord by staying in their home country.

“We miss out on the highest, fullest joys when we keep what we should give. This is true for the goers, those who risk their lives to take the gospel to unreached peoples. And this is true for the senders, those who gladly spend and are spent to support those who go.”

“If someone looked closely at your spending and giving, would they see that you’re at war? And if so, what would they say you’re fighting for? If you haven’t started supporting God’s work among the nations, what if you worked to identify one missionary, maybe through your local church, whom you could start prayerfully supporting today?”

Strategic and Aggressive Simplicity
Make War for Souls
Make War Against Greed
Make War from Joy
The Army Behind the Army

-Marshall Segal

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(GSiV: Baptist; A Mindset All Reformed Folks Need; GSiV Resource Page; Grateful for the Reformation; What is Reformed theology?; A Few Confessions of Faith in Vietnamese; Philadelphia Baptist Confession of Faith)

Posted on September 29, 2025 by gsivn111

Evangelism and Church Planting

Ba Ngôi Đức Chúa Trời; giáo lý; các Hội Thánh cải chánh ở Việt Nam, church; strong church; great leaders; better churches; Christ honoring churches; biblical churches; humility; honest pastors; sound theology; biblical churches; sound doctrine;, healthy churches in Vietnam; sacrifice; taking risk, V-reformed ministries in Vietnam; biblical discipleship is gospel driven; reformed churches in Vietnam;

Một Số Điều Về Việc Làm Cha Mẹ

1. Nuôi dạy con cái là sứ mạng thiêng liêng mà Đức Chúa Trời đã giao phó cho bạn.

2. Học vâng phục thẩm quyền là nền móng quan trọng.

3-5 (Đọc Thêm)

-Ligonier / Tripp

(GSiV: GSiV Resource Page; Grateful for the Reformation; What is Reformed theology?; A Few Confessions of Faith in Vietnamese; Books and articles of interest in Vietnamese)

Posted on September 22, 2025 by gsivn111

Helps and Tools

V-reformed ministries in Vietnam; biblical discipleship is gospel driven; reformed churches in Vietnam; healthy churches in Vietnam;

Thinking through methods and missions

Methods matter in ministry. They matter in overseas ministry too. Consider this article to think through key issues.

‘We long for (good) results and are prone to succumb to mechanistic ways of thinking–If only we implement A and B, then the strategy will lead to C.’

‘Listening to God’s word chastens triumphalist or mechanistic thinking, reminding us that, in the work of missions (or parenting or pastoring, for that matter), the success of our labors depends not on our carefully honed methods but on the authority of him who calls.’

‘The effectiveness of their ministry does not depend on the latest strategy and how well they can implement it, nor does it depend on the winsomeness of their speech or the depth of their sociological research.’

‘When the going is slow, when the soil is hard, don’t look first for a new method to advance the gospel.’

‘No amount of human strategy or ingenuity can twist the arm of his sovereign strength.’

Read the whole thing here

(GSiV: Expecting Rapid?; Debate about methods of church planting and discipling; Unreached People Groups and Overemphasis on Speed; A Plea for Gospel Sanity in Missions; Dangerous Desire for Church Growth; Miller: Success, Failure, and Grace; Church Growth, Planning, and Multiplication; Starting Churches: Making Disciples; Analysis of T4T; Phương pháp ‘Môn Đồ Hóa Dựa Trên Sự Vâng Phục’ là chủ nghĩa luật pháp phải không?; Rapid; Missions: Success, faithfulness, rapid, deception)

Posted on September 15, 2025 by gsivn111

Evangelism and Church Planting, Helps and Tools, Prayer and Promise, Thinking Biblically

môn đồ hóa dựa trên sự vâng phục là OBD; chủ nghĩa luật pháp; sự hiểu biết; sự hiện hữu; và thực hành; CPM ở Việt Nam;, OBD bằng Tiếng Việt; obedience based discipleship ở Việt Nam; môn đồ hóa ở Việt Nam; OBD ở Việt Nam;, truyền giáo quốc tế; truyền sĩ; rao giảng; truyền giảng;

Spurgeon on the atonement

‘Let the Christian feel that the teaching which lowers the work of Christ or makes it dependent upon the will of man as to its effect, puts the Cross on the ground and says, “That blood is shed, but it may be shed in vain, shed in vain for you”–let us all feel that such teaching comes not from the Spirit of God! That teaching which, pointing to the Cross, says, “He shall see of the travail of His soul and shall be satisfied.” That teaching which makes the Atonement a true atonement which forever put away the vindictive Justice of God from every soul for whom that Atonement was offered, exalts Christ and, therefore, it is a teaching which comes from the Spirit of God! When your heart is brought to rest upon what Christ has done. When, laying aside all confidence in your own works, knowledge, prayers, doing, or believing, you come to rest upon what Christ has done in its simplicity–then is Jesus Christ exalted in your heart and it must have been the work of the Spirit of Divine Grace! The Person, then, and the work of Christ are exalted.’

-C. H. Spurgeon

“The Spirit’s Office Towards Disciples,” (No. 3062)

A Sermon Published on Thursday, October 17, 1907

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(GSiV: Spurgeon; TULIP: Possible translations in Vietnamese; Election; Atonement; Piper; Eternal security; Salvation;Evangelism and Calvinism; TULIP; A great brief summary of Calvinism (in English); Arminianism ; TULIP là gì?; The Joys of Definite Atonement ; Phúc Âm cho Người Cơ Đốc (Spurgeon)–phần 6; Spurgeon)

Posted on September 7, 2025 by gsivn111

Grace, Thinking Biblically

Ân điển tể trị; các Hội Thánh cải chánh ở Việt Nam, Có thể dịch sang tiếng Việt; John Piper bằng tiếng việt, Hoàn toàn bại hoại, nam luan diem, Năm Luận Điểm Tác Giả John Piper, Protestant Reformation; Calvinism in Vietnam; reformed theology;, Sự chuộc tội, sovereign grace materials in Vietnamese; reformed churches in Vietnam; reformed tradition;

TULIP là gì?

“TULIP. Cách tóm tắt giúp nhớ năm điểm trong giáo lý của phái Calvin khẳng định tại Hội nghị Dort (1618-1619):

Hoàn toàn bại hoại (Total depravity),
Sự lựa chọn vô điều kiện (Unconditional election),
Cứu chuộc có giới hạn (Limited atonement; [Particular redemption])
Ân điển bất khả kháng (Irresistible grace; [Overcoming Grace])
Sự bền đỗ của thánh đồ (Perseverance of the saints; [Perseverance of the Savior]).”

–Sổ tay Thuật Ngữ Thần Học Anh-Việt (Ấn bản thứ 2), tr. 236.

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(GSiV: TULIP: Possible translations in Vietnamese; Election; Atonement; Piper; Eternal security; Salvation; Evangelism and Calvinism; TULIP; A great brief summary of Calvinism (in English); The Joys of Definite Atonement )

Posted on August 31, 2025 by gsivn111

Grace, Helps and Tools, Thinking Biblically

Ân điển tể trị; các Hội Thánh cải chánh ở Việt Nam, Có thể dịch sang tiếng Việt; John Piper bằng tiếng việt, Hoàn toàn bại hoại, nam luan diem, Năm Luận Điểm Tác Giả John Piper, piper's five points in vietnamese, Protestant Reformation; Calvinism in Vietnam; reformed theology; John Piper in Vietnamese, Sự chuộc tội, sovereign grace materials in Vietnamese; reformed churches in Vietnam; reformed tradition;, V-reformed ministries in Vietnam

The Joys of Definite Atonement

Definite atonement is also called particular redemption and specific atonement. One theologian of the past helpfully asked, “When Jesus died, did he have a specific people in mind?” We think the Bible answers “Yes.” In other words, God didn’t merely “provide” salvation; he sent Jesus to die for the elect. Below are some other details by another pastor-theologian to help us think biblically:

‘It is important. Sometimes it is called “limited” atonement, which is an unfortunate designation, because it seems to minimize or diminish the work of the atonement. In fact, what we are arguing for is not something less than others believe but for something more. This what I mean: The Bible speaks about God loving the world (John 3:16). And he speaks about Christ being “the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe” (1 Timothy 4:10).’

-Piper

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(GSiV: GSiV Resource Page; No Free Will: Bondage; The human will in bondage to sin; Traditionalism/Provisionism; ĐỨC CHÚA TRỜI VÀ SỰ CỨU RỖI: Tín Lý Về Ân Điển Quyền Năng (Gi. 3:16); How do we stop loving the darkness?; How the gospel works–election; A God who can’t be stopped; Provisionism: Did God save people or just provide salvation?; If the saved need God to will for them, how much more the lost; Original Sin & Total Depravity series–part 3; If Calvinism is true…part 3;; Praising God’s purpose and plan: to get glory (Eph 1:5-14); TULIP: Possible translations in Vietnamese; Election; Atonement; Piper; Eternal security; Salvation; Evangelism and Calvinism; TULIP; A great brief summary of Calvinism (in English))

Posted on August 25, 2025 by gsivn111

Grace, Helps and Tools, Thinking Biblically

Ân điển tể trị; các Hội Thánh cải chánh ở Việt Nam, Có thể dịch sang tiếng Việt; John Piper bằng tiếng việt, Hoàn toàn bại hoại, nam luan diem, Năm Luận Điểm Tác Giả John Piper, piper's five points in vietnamese, Protestant Reformation; Calvinism in Vietnam; reformed theology; John Piper in Vietnamese, Sự chuộc tội, sovereign grace materials in Vietnamese; reformed churches in Vietnam; reformed tradition;, V-reformed ministries in Vietnam

Thưa anh em, Đức Chúa Trời là Phúc Âm

‘Kể từ khi quyển sách này được xuất bản vào năm 2002, tôi suy nghĩ đến một vài chân lý mà trong đó có lẽ thật về Đức Chúa Trời là Phúc Âm. Điều đơn giản mà câu này muốn nói là sự tốt đẹp nhất ở trong Tin lành là chính Đức Chúa Trời. Khi đặt niềm tin vào Phúc Âm, bạn đang nếm biết và nhìn thấy Chúa là tốt lành và món quà quý nhất mà Chúa đã chuộc lại cho bạn qua sự chết của Con Ngài là được vui hưởng chính Đức Chúa Trời.’

-Piper (Tien Phong)

Đọc Thêm

(GSiV: Phúc Âm cho Cơ Đốc nhân; Phúc Âm Là Gì?; Đức Chúa Trời là Phúc âm, Piper–part 1; Piper; Năm Luận Điểm; Phúc Âm cho Cơ Đốc nhân; Prosperity Gospel?; Elliff; More Resources)