Isaiah 41: God’s Elect

The pith of this teaching on election explains that God is sovereign, God controls and guides all events for Godโ€™s glory and for the good of Godโ€™s people.

Minor Prophets: Malachi, Today is not Tomorrow

Whatever we are going through can feel like it will last for the rest of our lives, without escape. Sometimes, some aspect of that really is true. But so much more often, now is only now, the middle of the story, and what the Lord has in store is unknown.

Minor Prophets: Malachi, Jacob not Esau

Irreducible Complexity: Election is simply this, that Sovereign God loves whom God loves. The Lord foreknows and calls those to respond to the good news of Godโ€™s grace and at the same time God works through a person's choosing to believe.

1 Peter, Elected in Love

In this brief, ten minute YouTube presentation, we take a deep look at what Peter might have meant when he spoke of being God's elect.

2 Peter 2: Peter’s Oracle

In Peterโ€™s mind, the creation of the world and the judgment of the Flood acted are proofs of God's impending judgment by fire.

2 Peter 2: Predetermined? Or Free?

Peter took it in stride that all human beings are enslavedโ€”either to God in Christ, or to Satan and darkness. The apostles taught there was no middle ground. Our question today, however, particularly in the west, and even more particularly in such places as the United States, is, โ€œHow much free will do humans actually have?โ€

1 Peter 2: A Chosen People

You and I, by virtue of our new birth, our birth from above, have become citizens of the kingdom of light.

1 Peter 1: Prophetic Mystery

Worship and praise are the natural overflow of Godโ€™s perspective, for you and I can experience joyful confidence and triumphant thanksgiving in the movement and purposes of God.

1 Peter: Elected in Love

If you are feeling a heavy load, or weathering a tempest, then you will be able to resonate with something of what the first century church was enduring.

Gospel of John: Election

From the human standpoint, we become Jesusโ€™ sheep by believing, BUT from Godโ€™s standpoint, we believe because we are Jesusโ€™ sheep.