Predestination
174In the Beginning... Again
4 Jan 2024
34:05¶ 119
“When I have been asked on occasion, usually by one student to explain to someone else, “Explain to them predestination,” I say, “Really? Why…”
34:29¶ 121
“They catch them. I say, “Look, I knew you were going to do that. In fact, I planned for you to do that. Did…”
34:43¶ 123
“”So I didn’t make you do it, but you did it, even though I planned it and knew it was going to happen? Now,…”
154Dry Bones
23 Jan 2023
43:37¶ 144
“Too often I think Calvinists of all various stripes have fallen back. We’ve been accused of this and we say, “No, no, no, no,”…”
43:56¶ 146
“Well, if I’m going to eat, God will provide. It’s predestined, right? I don’t need a job. I don’t need money.”
44:08¶ 148
“In a sense that brings us back to the dry bones in Ezekiel, which is that God has ordained means for how the dry…”
140All Things New
17 Oct 2022
29:37¶ 82
“Too often Christians don’t think like that, and it even sounds a little weird to some Christians, honestly. Sometimes the worst offenders, I hate…”
30:38¶ 85
“As Christians oftentimes, as Westerners certainly, and sometimes even as Calvinists, we push God out of the universe and we are content to let…”
33:40¶ 97
“The message is that we, by divine appointment, predestination, and providence, have an inheritance in the moment we’re living in, in this particular place,…”
66History as Story
4 Apr 2021
31:13¶ 139
“How does God do all that? I don’t know. I don’t know how God created heaven and earth out of nothing, either, and that’s…”
31:55¶ 141
“Do we know? No. But we can believe what the Bible says, that man’s choices are meaningful, that man in responsible, that God holds…”
32:45¶ 149
“We have to accept that God is a storyteller who has multiple goals for us, but the chief one around which everything spins is…”
60Facing Giants
21 Feb 2021
27:34¶ 75
“And here eschatology perhaps plays a part. I think because of the doctrine of predestination, we misread that to mean God doesn’t love very…”
26:16¶ 70
“And we don’t know who this person is. We don’t know if they’re elect or not. That’s secret information that’s none of our business,…”
27:09¶ 73
“True, the ultimate outcome is dependent upon God’s sovereignty, but that’s true of everything. Whether or not we all three survive the next three…”