Tag: Sovereign Grace
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What does it mean to be “Reformed”?
The question of what constitutes Reformed Theology dominates both academic and popular conversations. There are those who assert quite specifically and confidently that being Reformed involves being Calvinistic, covenantal, confessional, and paedobaptistmal, calling any who fail to uphold these pillars as “not really reformed,” which is surely a surprise to the Reformed Baptists among us.…
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Published and praying
I finished with the sequence of publishing my book last week, and as I type this, I’m waiting for some hard copies to be shipped to me. That’s always a nervous anticipation. Will the book look like the proofs I was shown? Will the artwork line up properly on the spine of the book? This…
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What is the ordo salutis?
What is the ordo salutis? What does it mean to live in the salvation of Christ?
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On monergism
God is monergistic in regeneration. He is determinative in other aspects of our great salvation.
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Asking the right questions
Objecting to the teaching of God’s sovereign grace reveals far more about the heart and mind that won’t submit to this revealed truth than it does about the difficulty of the doctrine.
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Dragged kicking and screaming into the Kingdom?
When God sovereignly saves a sinner, does he drag them kicking and screaming into the Kingdom?
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The Reformers and sola gratia
Are we in such dire need of God’s grace operatively working in us, that we are utterly hopeless unless God sovereignly works?
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What do you mean by sovereignty?, part 2
To say that God is sovereign over all is a given among Bible-believing Christians. What is not a given is what we mean by that. Dig deeper and you’ll find that there are differences in what various teachers mean when they affirm God’s sovereignty. In part 1 of this series, I wrote about how God’s…
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What do you mean by sovereignty?, part 1
All Christians believe in a sovereign God. But what do they mean by that?
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Bowing at the idol of free will
Most Christians recoil in horror at the sovereignty of God in salvation. They bow at the idol of free will.
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