Predestination & Election (57)
  1. Today’s advice for the anxious and worried would have likely horrified Luther.
  2. How are we to understand election in Romans 9? What does it mean that God loved Jacob and hated Esau?
  3. All views of election and predestination are not equal. These are doctrines meant to comfort and provide assurance.
  4. Divine election hacking happens with the proposal that God’s Word is irrelevant and powerless, weak and impotent.
  5. The Church of Jesus Christ is and stays Jesus' Church whether we decide it is or not.
  6. A significant election is quickly approaching. A candidate will be chosen to hold the highest office in our nation.
  7. We find such a temptation when the devil causes us to question God’s election or predestination of us in “eternity as a past event” (i.e. “eternity-past”).
  8. We believers are those who have been called out for a special healing mission in the world because we’ve caught a glimpse of the heavenly city.
  9. In an American evangelical landscape that emphasizes the importance of an individual’s personal decision to follow Jesus—as if that were the basis for God’s grace towards a man or woman—Lutherans and Reformed Christians insist that justification before God is based solely on Jesus’ work, two millennia ago.