[Alex Murphy]

Someone asked me yesterday whether my intent was to replace the Great Reformed Ping List. My goal is not replacement - my goal is to revive it, to strengthen it, and to grow it.

The original GRPL list can be found on nobdysfool's home page. For now, to delineate the (reinvigorated) list from the original, I'm calling this the "Great Reformed Ping List, [Re]formed", although I'm not settled on the name. The new list will be kept on my homepage.

I've started by reviewing the original GRPL list, and pulling anyone who has been inactive on FR for at least three months. I'm assuming that these FReepers have actually left FR, and not just gone into full-time lurking mode. This post pings those names on the GRPL who are still active. You form the beginning of the GRPL[R] list. And additional names have already been added since yesterday's initial announcement.

List members will be pinged to articles regarding Reformed thought or interest. If you want to be added to the Great Reformed Ping List [Re]formed, please FReepmail me. If you were on the old GRPL and want your name removed from the Great Reformed Ping List [Re]formed, please FReepmail me. And if you were on the original GRPL and your name is missing from the GRPL[R], please FReepmail me.

The rules for inclusion on the new list are the same as requested for inclusion on the original:

The GRPL[R] (Great Reformed Ping List [Re]formed) was originally conceived by Orthodox Presbyterian and initiated by drstevej as a ping list for FReepers who affirm monergistic regeneration, regardless of their denominational background. This ping list is intended for the exclusive use of its members. Non-members, while free to ping any FReeper they desire, are asked not to use the GRPL[R] list. Anyone desiring further information on the GRPL[R] or desiring inclusion on the GRPL[R] ping list, or removal from the ping list, should send a PM to me (Alex Murphy), as I currently maintain the list.

Persons desiring inclusion on the GRPL[R] should indicate their agreement with the doctrine of monergistic regeneration (the doctrines of grace). Following the tradition of the original GRPL, application for inclusion should be accompanied by a suitable historical quote. Requests for membership will be reviewed and may involve some private correspondence before inclusion to the list. It is our intention to maintain the integrity of the list, and to not use it for the purpose of divisive or vain and pointless arguments. Our primary goal is to Glorify God, and to present His Truth in power and integrity.

[ckilmer]

Here's a pretty good poem that begins with the line

"Listen friends and mark my words in this moment and this hour God is jealous for his name for his name is jealous."

Its overlaid on the selah tune "draw me Lord"

[Gamecock]

For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology. —C.H. Spurgeon

[alpha-8-25-02]

“Those who hope to be saved by trying to do their best know nothing of that glowing fervour, that hallowed warmth, that devout joy in God, which come with salvation freely given according to the grace of God.”

C.H. Spurgeon, All of Grace (Rossshire, UK: Christian Focus Publications Ltd., 1997), 136)

Soli Deo Gloria!

[RnMomof7]

I did not know the pope and OP were still hanging out...of course I want on the list..

[RnMomof7]

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
- Martin Luther |

[Dutchboy88]

“If God had not foreordained the course of events but waited until some undetermined condition was or was not fulfilled, His decrees could be neither eternal nor immutable.” Loraine Boettner, page21, The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination.

[Puritan Idelette]

Please count me in the GRPL(R). I have regularly read and benefited from GRPL; offered prayers for posted prayer requests, but was like the sluggard and did not post- but instead sent private messages to some on GRPL to keep in touch. Besides being monergistic, and reformed, and thankful for my salvation - I will reform and post!

My historical quote: (and prayer for America)

“As also, that our brethren, natural Scotsmen o what religion so ever they may be, may have occasion to examinate themselves, if they may with safe conscience oppone themselves to us, who seek nothing but Christ Jesus His glorious Evangel to be preached, His Holy Sacraments to be truly ministrate; superstition,tyranny and idolatry, to be suppressed in this Realm; and finally, the liberty of this our native country to remain free from the bondage and tyranny of strangers.”
John Knox

[Frumanchu]

I'll see your historical Calvinist quote...

"But the devil, with all his crew, is mistaken if he imagines that, by assailing me with vile falsehoods, he can either cool my zeal, or diminish my exertions." - John Calvin, Epistle to Reader, final edition of Institutes

and raise you an historical FR Calvinist quote!

Recognize that all true Christians will be Calvinists in glory!

(let the apoplectic seizures commence)