Excellent Illustration of Election
This is another short example of the great content in Boettner’s book on predestination. Too good not to share! This audio clip is taken from chapter 19, which deals with the common objection that predestination represents God as a respecter of persons. To say that it obliterates that objection is an understatement.
Ours To Adore, But Not To Explain
This audio clip is from Loraine Boettner’s The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, from the long section covering common objections to this Bible teaching. The particular objection considered here is the errant charge that predestination makes God the author of sin. The clip is from chapter 17: “That It Makes God The Author of Sin,” and […]
Great Illustration!
Boettner’s The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination is so very good. I’m truly enjoying it. The following illustration was so helpful that it simply must be shared.
Predestination Is Not Fatalism
Loraine Boettner aptly points out in his book, The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, that predestination is most certainly not fatalism. This is an audio clip from Chapter 15, which begins the section of the objections commonly brought against the doctrine of Predestination.
New work in progress
It has been a little while since the last update, but I’ve not been idle. I’m working on producing The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination by Loraine Boettner. For those not familiar with it, it was originally published in 1932. It has 431 pages of explanation of, and arguments for, the often misunderstood but certainly Biblical […]
Being Astonished Is Not Enough
The crowd was astonished both at the matter and manner of His preaching, for He spoke with weight, a majesty, an earnestness which carried conviction. They were filled with a temporary wonderment: yet it is not said that they repented or believed on Him or became His disciples. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, […]
His House Fell
Sometimes God exposes those who have made an eminent profession by sending them such anguish of conscience and foretastes of hell that at the end they are exposed to all around them. A notable example of this was Francis Spira in the seventeenth century. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, Chapter 63
A House Built Upon Sand
A mere intellectual assent to the Gospel or a belief in the historical Christ is worthless, for it brings forth no spiritual fruits. To hear and acquiesce and then perform not is a mocking of God. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, Chapter 62
Obedience
From all that has been before us on the different points it will be seen that everything goes back to and turns upon the word “doeth”: that strikes the keynote of the verse, and therefore its dominant theme is our practical compliance with the Divine will. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, Chapter 61
Sobering
No wonder there is now so much dishonesty among those in the pew when there has been such dishonesty in the pulpit. A.W. Pink, The Sermon on the Mount, Chapter 60, “Profession Tested”