From the category archives:

Unconditional Election

Jonathan Edwards on Unconditional Election

February 11, 2009

Jonathan Edwards masterfully argues that it is necessary that God determined that at least one individual would be saved, or else there would have been the risk that Jesus work would have been done in vain. The implication of this argument is of course that once you have accepted that at least one person [...]

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SERMON – A Song Of Hope – Psalm 121

September 5, 2008

On the 24th of August, I preached a sermon at Jubilee during our summer series on some famous psalms. I took Psalm 121, which served as a starting point for me to share some of the most important planks of my personal doctrinal framework—a framework that has sustained me through hard times.
As blogging around here [...]

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Credit God, Blame Man, Or Why Double Predestination is Error – Charles Simeon

August 27, 2007

Last week, as you may know, I preached on Jacob. During my preparation I was, not surprisingly, taken once more to the glorious doctrines of grace—the so-called “TULIP.” Jacob is used in Romans as a supreme example of God’s free grace.
This post is part of a mini-series highlighting quotes from others on each of these [...]

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SERMON – Jacob, the Missional Rebel

August 20, 2007

I preached the following sermon at Jubilee Church, London yesterday. You can read the notes, download the audio, or listen to it right here:

HEROES—At the outset I should warn you that Jacob is not your typical biblical hero. We often go to the Bible to learn about how to behave. We want to read about [...]

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Calvinistic newbie

January 3, 2006

My friend Dave Routlege shows his calvinistic training in his commentary about the history of his blog (which I helped him set up) arose. Astute readers will notice the correspondence to the five points of calvinism which cannot have been accidental (for more on the five points of calvinism follow the links at my post [...]

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More on Unconditional election, "double predestination" and the wills of God and man

November 25, 2004

JOLLYBLOGGER has now posted on Unconditional Election, which he posted after my own post on the same subject.
As usual he does a great job- a much better one than I- but as is my want I will once again be slightly nit-picking. This is not so much because I think he and I really differ [...]

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U – Unconditional Election (Five Points of Calvinism, Part 2)

November 23, 2004

I hope David will forgive me but I am going to be very naughty and jump ahead of him on my uninvited tagging allong on his TULIP series. I will not do as good a job of explaining this as he will, but we do seem to spark off each other quite well. Consider [...]

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