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.

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€