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Mar 2015
26m 6s

Baptist Calvinists?

ALLIANCE OF CONFESSING EVANGELICALS
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Tom Ascol, Executive Director of Founders Ministries, author, and pastor, joins the Spin Crew for a riveting conversation on Calvinism in the Southern Baptist Convention. Are Calvinists and Baptists so oil-and-water after all? Tom speaks on why Baptists do what they do, and the Gang gets down to business asking some important questions: Are all southerners d ... Show More
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