QUYỀN NĂNG CAO CẢ CỦA ĐỨC CHÚA TRỜI Ở VIỆT NAM (Ê-phê 1:4-5)

Explaining doctrine of election over a meal or coffee

Here are a few verses that pastor John Piper uses to kindly persuade those struggling against this beautiful doctrine: Listen or read the whole thing here (GSiV: A Mindset All Reformed Folks Need; GSiV Resource Page; Election ;  Praising God’s purpose and plan: to… Read More

Praising God’s purpose and plan: to get glory (Eph 1:5-14)

God’s purpose in choosing us (v4) for salvation (v5) was to bring himself glory. We do well to glory in what God glories in. While man believes (he really does act), it is all according to God’s will…. Read More

Preach only God’s Word unflinchingly

While I don’t agree with certain aspects of the theology of the radical reformers from the 1500s in Europe, I certainly appreciate that they stood on their convictions for believer’s baptism; and many paid with their lives.  “Seek… Read More

When God Elects: A Practical Doctrine for Us

‘Predestination also says something important about us: apart from a unilateral work of grace, we cannot please God. We are dead in our sins, and dead men can do nothing (Eph. 2:1). Therefore, we ignore predestination to our… Read More

The practical doctrine of election

A Practical Doctrine ‘1. Predestination means our salvation is as secure and settled as the God who selected us. If our inheritance is rooted in God—who chose us before the salvation of the world—then we cannot fall away…. Read More

John Calvin and Missions

‘Even though the Protestant reformers of the sixteenth century were regularly fighting for their survival because of Catholic assaults, and even though they had few resources and were land-locked, they believed in and practiced missions. We see this… Read More

If the saved need God to will for them, how much more the lost

If the believing Psalmist asked God to “incline his heart,” and Paul in the NT looked to the Lord to “grant” what the Christians at Rome needed, and trusted that God would “empower” the Corinthians, and he confessed… Read More

A God who can’t be stopped

Deuteronomy 32:39 (ESV) — 39 “‘See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; and there is none that can deliver… Read More

How the gospel works–election

‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world,… Read More

How do we stop loving the darkness?

Many of us know John 3:16, but how many of us know what it says after that?  This passage shows that man is born loving the darkness; he delights in it. That means, man naturally loves lostness and… Read More