There are several lectures at youtube on this. While we share this theology, we regret that this is the focus. What about Theology proper, Christology, Pneumatology, as well as the liturgy? Note the architecture, typical for the Reformed. We take from them what wisdom they offer and they have many things--but not all things--to offer.
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Moderns, with great consternation
Despise Calvin's predestination.
For economics, we know,
Or our genes run the show
Of our lives. This we call liberation.
As for the architecture, most Reformed churches today have the following excuses:
(1) There grand, elegant places of worship built in past centuries by either European princes or captains of American industry have been taken over by theological liberals.
(2) The great institutional endowments are also in liberal hands.
(3) The average Reformed congregation is small, and made up of people struggling to pay all the bills.
(4) But I note with approval the central location of the pulpit, indicating the centrality of the preaching of the Word.
You are entirely incorrect and argued quite poorly. God sovereignly, unilaterally, and quite freely "grants" to the "remnant according to election" the gifts of repentance unto life and Spirit-wrought justifying faith. Thank you for the lengthy list of Biblical quotes, although they did nothing for your primary presumption, your Finneyite assumption, and your Arminian assertion. Keep reading. Try a list starting with Acts 13.48and 1 Pet. 2.7,8. I realize that your self-hatred of God's sovereignty (deep inside in places where you don't think) and that your self-love of your self-pride of your assumed self-act of willing faith will be abraded, sand-papered, wire-brushed, chided, utterly rebuked, and radically humbled by these two verses. The and so many others are like a grenade in your little fox-hole of Arminians. But, if you persist, keep praising yourself. Go ahead. It's not my worry or concern. You'll have to deal with God in your as-of-yet unbroken pride. As for me because of St. Paul, "So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy" (Rom.9.16). Oh, there's a third verse for you. There surely are more. Just go ahead and do a study of Romans 9.
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