5 Things You Should Know About Justification
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“The glory is all God’s because He does everything from everlasting to everlasting for our salvation.” - Ligonier
A "Knockout Blow" to Penal Substitution? Engaging John Mark Comer on the Atonement
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“In this video, Gavin Ortlund responds to recent comments by John Mark Comer suggesting that a new book may be the “final knockout blow” to penal substitutionary atonement (PSA). Gavin offers four reasons why PSA remains a vital part of Christian theology.” - Truth Unites
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What Is Unconditional Election?
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“God does not confer His grace upon us because of any good in us—whether past or future good. In fact, the Scripture describes man’s depravity in the most straightforward way when it says: ‘None is righteous, no, not one’ ” - Ligonier
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How the Roman Catholic Doctrine of Assurance Distorts the Conscience
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“…a key issue is frequently overlooked by both Protestant admirers of Rome and those who convert to Catholicism—assurance of salvation. The Roman Catholic Church flatly denies that Christians can have certainty of their salvation.” - 9 Marks
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Why Do We Say “Ask Jesus Into Your Heart”?
The phrase “ask Jesus into your heart” does not occur in Scripture. My recent article makes this point. So, why do we use this phrase? I’ve only just scratched the surface with my research, but here is what I have found so far. Encouraging unbelievers to ask Jesus into their hearts only seems to appear in Christian vocabulary in recent centuries.
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What Is the Bondage of the Will?
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“Martin Luther looked upon The Bondage of the Will and his Shorter Catechism as his most significant writings. The first of these, The Bondage of the Will, was Luther’s exposition of the monergism that characterized the Reformation.” - Ligonier
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What It Cost to Redeem Us Is the Clearest Indication of Our Evil’s Depth
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“We grasp the horror of human evil only when we focus on God’s standards and on the atonement necessary to satisfy them.” - Randy Alcorn
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What Did God Foreknow? A Biblical Approach to Foreknowledge
When we examine the relationship between God’s foreknowledge and His predestining, one might wonder if one precedes the other, and how that impacts metaphysical realities. As part of this line of reasoning, it is important to examine the Scriptures to discover what God foreknew. There are at least six explicit Biblical references to God having prior knowledge: Psalm 139:4, Jeremiah 1:5, Acts 2:23, Romans 8:29, Romans 11:2, and 1 Peter 1:2. Interestingly, there is another passage that speaks of believers also having prior knowledge—2 Peter 3:17.
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How Does Sanctification Differ from Justification?
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“The most serious, and potentially damning, errors surface when the two are not carefully distinguished. According to Turretin, justification and sanctification differ in at least five ways.” - Kevin DeYoung
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