God's Electing Grace
"Those who are passed over by God will never complain that God is being unfair. Left to themsleves, they have no desire to be chosen." - Ian Duguid
View ArticleThe Great Giver
by A. W. Pink"He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" - Rom. 8:32The above verse supplies us with an instance of...
View ArticleOur Posture Before the Word of God
by Tom Lyon1. If I find something with which I cannot agree, I am wrong.2. If I find something which I cannot understand, I am wrong to judge it on that account. A quote from Martyn Lloyd-Jones:...
View ArticleThe Distinction Between Free Will and Free Agency
INABILITY: FALLEN HUMAN BEINGS ARE BOTH FREE AND ENSLAVEDby J.I. PackerThe heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? - JEREMIAH 17:9Clear thought about the fallen...
View ArticleThe Ground of Justification
by Louis BerkhofOne of the most important points of the controversy between the Church of Rome and the Reformers, and between Reformed theology and the Arminians, concerned the ground of justification....
View ArticleThe Marks of True Prayer
by Joel Beeke1. True prayer brings heaven down into the soul, and lifts the soul up to heaven.2. True prayer is the prime exercise of faith where all saving graces converge to climax in both the...
View ArticleChrist and Sanctification
by Octavius WinslowBy simple, close, and searching views of the cross of Christ, the Spirit most effectually sanctifies the believer. This is the true and great method of gospel sanctification. Here...
View ArticleWho Made You to Differ?
by C. H. SpurgeonIt is grace, free, sovereign grace, which has made you to differ!Should any here, supposing themselves to be the children of God, imagine that there is some reason "in them" why they...
View ArticleThe Importance of Salvation
by Archibald AlexanderIn comparison with salvation, all other subjects are trivial. To waste time in the pursuit of wealth, or in the chase of sensual pleasure, while our salvation is not secure, is...
View ArticleCommon Objections to the Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
by Loraine Boettner1. That it is Fatalism2. That it is Inconsistent with the Free Agency and Moral Responsibility of Man3. That it Makes God the Author of Sin4. That it Discourages All Motives to...
View ArticleMy Social Media Strategy
by J. Ligon Duncan1. Relentlessly encourage, edify & inform.2. Ignore trolls, mockers & slanderers into oblivion.3. Starve dissensionists, narcissists, & errorists of the attention they...
View ArticleJohn Owen on the Holy Spirit
John Owen is among the theologians whose thoughts most closely mirror my own and this particular book of his could easily be called a manifesto of monergistic, God-honoring theology. I agree with Dr....
View ArticleVessels Prepared for Destruction
Excerpt from Dr. James White's book "The Potter's Freedom" (pages 211-214):For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name...
View Article"Circumcise the foreskin of your heart"
Question:"Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn." Deut. 10:16 --> If God commands the Israelites to circumcise their own hearts in this verse and in Jer. 4:4,...
View Article"You Always Resist the Holy Spirit"
One of the common arguments I hear against the biblical doctrine of irresistible grace (effectual calling) is an appeal to Acts 7:51 which declares“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and...
View ArticleThe Force of Bad Example
By John CalvinIt ought to be observed that we are exceedingly disposed to wicked imitation. When we see bad examples, we are drawn to them with great force, and take the example for a law; for when...
View ArticleAn Essential Mark of a Sound Conversion
by Joseph AlleineWe turn from our own RIGHTEOUSNESS.Before conversion, man seeks to cover himself with his own fig-leaves, and to make himself acceptable with God, by his own duties. He is apt to trust...
View ArticleRegeneration
by Dr. Robert L. Reymondfrom A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith 2nd EditionWhy do some people repent and respond by faith in Christ to the divine summons to faith while others do not?...
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