Common grace
234The Apostles of Jesus Christ
19 Jan 2026
52:16¶ 171
“It is, and in some fall-out of that Rachel spoke of common grace. As I’ve told you before, I’m sure, I don’t really like…”
52:45¶ 172
“Common grace, if we’re going to use that phrase, has to be the overflow of special grace, of redemptive grace. God reaches out into…”
53:02¶ 173
“This is not something like another game that God is running on the side, as it were. This is part of the program and…”
206Rome Wants Elbow Room
23 Sep 2024
12:08¶ 30
“First, the reasons for decline. We’ve talked before about God’s common grace, which is to say that he is good to all sorts of…”
12:52¶ 31
“We don’t know the history of Rome well enough. The ancient world is still largely a closed book for the simple reason that people…”
205Alps and Americas: Rome and Their Enemies
9 Sep 2024
8:01¶ 24
“We looked last time at the so-called 12 tables, the written laws that were set up in the marketplace, in the Forum where everybody…”
8:33¶ 25
“Of course, the Bible already was that, and it’s more than possible that the idea came from Moses, but we don’t know for sure.…”
204The Founding of Rome
26 Aug 2024
23:13¶ 76
“Yes, and where did they get the ideas? This is fairly late in human history. This is a huge dose of common grace, any…”
29:01¶ 92
“A couple things along those lines. Yes, we cannot create history through our questions, but we can have questions. Once we understand on a…”
24:33¶ 80
“As we look at Israel’s history we can look backward and we can look forward. If we look backward we have Solomon and his…”
193Cyrus, King of Persia
20 May 2024
33:02¶ 103
“One of the topics that forms the backdrop for a study of history, especially at this point, is the idea of common grace. I’m…”
33:35¶ 104
“I made a reference awhile back that David asked me about. I spoke of Jesus as the savior of all men, especially those who…”
34:18¶ 107
“A key element in maintaining any degree of rationality and morality in the ancient world was this constant injection or overflow of knowledge from…”
188A is for Alphabet, Artist, and Ahab
8 Apr 2024
16:27¶ 42
“There’s something here about God’s common grace, taking the wealth of even wicked nations and pouring it into the kingdom of God, but God’s…”
16:40¶ 43
“And the gifts of the Spirit also. When we look back at the building of the tabernacle, the artisans and the people who made…”
17:17¶ 44
“Yes. Jesus is the Savior of all men, especially those who believe. God gives gifts to all people for the sake of his Son…”
179Nephilim, The Flood, and Covenant
5 Feb 2024
35:07¶ 99
“This all begs the question of is common grace, or whatever you want to call it, actually something separate and distinct from saving grace,…”
35:38¶ 100
“You can think of the wheat and the tares here. God does not pull up the wheat for the sake of the tares that…”
36:07¶ 101
“There is always this overflow of God’s goodness and grace, which will make the person more accountable in the end, or maybe a means…”
175Be Fruitful and Multiply
11 Jan 2024
43:05¶ 143
“I’m uncomfortable with the term “common grace” but I’ll use it – who in God’s overflowing mercies to his people, let us say, nonetheless…”
42:33¶ 142
“I would have liked them to have done one more sentence to make clearer what they meant. I assume I know what they mean,…”
43:58¶ 145
“Now, this is a children’s book so you may not want to go there, and there would be a valid reason for not, but…”
173Retrospective
21 Aug 2023
34:48¶ 113
“Sadly, Bryan will not be joining us for the next arc. Bryan, we’re going to miss you a whole lot. You’ve said so many…”
35:28¶ 114
“That is God’s wonderful gift to us. That’s how we experience all those things that are ongoing in the world that we wish weren’t…”
170Marriage and Culture
31 Jul 2023
2:04¶ 9
“That is a very interesting question, to which I have no immediate answer beyond the obvious, “Because He would.” God has not taken away…”
4:59¶ 13
“That would be called hell, and it did seem to be a real danger when God came calling on Adam and Eve after their…”
5:28¶ 14
“In the meantime, while God is busy redeeming the planet, there will be a great deal of beauty – aesthetic beauty, but also the…”
153A New Law (Part 2)
16 Jan 2023
3:14¶ 11
“So as we look at the man who does not know Christ, but may be in many respects a good, honorable, and admirable sort…”
21:06¶ 82
“That doesn’t help with regard to your eternal destiny, but it does make life a little nicer for those people who have to live…”
21:27¶ 83
“That sounds like something Van Til wrote. “I’d rather be neighbor to someone with an extraordinary amount of common grace and no special grace…”
144Broken Cisterns
14 Nov 2022
14:34¶ 42
“We’re not programmed but we are exposed, and what God has put in our souls and our personalities by common grace and by divine…”
29:30¶ 99
“Every mother who takes her baby in her arms for the first time and smiles big and coos back at the baby is appreciating…”
44:04¶ 147
“It is God’s goodness to us – common goodness, common grace, whatever you want to call it – that we are not as bad…”
132You'll Know It When you See It
22 Aug 2022
19:59¶ 75
“So as man self-consciously turned from God, God withdrew the remnants of his grace. We can use the term common grace, if you will,…”
27:35¶ 105
“Again, this is not God making them evil. This is God simply withdrawing his grace that kept them from their evil. In other words,…”
23:02¶ 90
“Which was appropriate. This is because they refused to tell the difference between God and a dung beetle. God says, “Fine. I’m going to…”
98Ruth - Immigration and Welfare
27 Dec 2021
30:57¶ 114
“So you go to your unconverted neighbor and say, “I’m collecting for this charity,” and it’s amazing how many times they’ll write a check,…”
30:23¶ 113
“The Bible does not assume that human nature is good, but it does assume that where God’s people are covenanted together in a society…”
14:47¶ 60
“So this overflowing gospel abundance – let’s keep the focus there, not just common grace, whatever that is, but this special grace overflowing through…”
85A Mother in Israel (Part 1)
27 Sep 2021
38:30¶ 128
“That is a great note to end on. Shall we wrap up with some recommendations? I’ll go first. This is something my friend John…”
39:55¶ 131
“Those things are wonderful, to know that despite all the darkness there are still sparks of light, and they’re not all from Christians. God…”
56The Sociology of Sacrifice (Part 2)
24 Jan 2021
25:10¶ 85
“I realize common grace is a theologically acceptable term and I’ll live with it, but I think it’s acquired some baggage. What God is…”
25:44¶ 86
“It also means that God is pouring coals of fire on your head if that goodness does not lead you to repentance. It’s all…”
22:48¶ 77
“Some people call the Noahic covenant the common grace covenant, and sometimes it sounds as though the common grace track is separate from the…”