Predestination vs. Free Will – Household Words:

YOU ARE NOT AN ACCIDENT. Ephesians 1:4-13.

Was it God’s will that Jim’s mother got pregnant when she was 19? Was it God’s will that Jim then fathered a child at 17? God wills that we save sex for marriage. But God also wills that sex results in children, even difficult, unplanned pregnancies. Now what? Now Grace! Grace is God stepping “outside”Continue reading “YOU ARE NOT AN ACCIDENT. Ephesians 1:4-13.”

WOODROW. Romans 9:14-16, 20-21.

My childhood friend Woodrow could walk on his hands, climb anything, and do crazy things with bicycles. He would have made an excellent athlete if his family had not driven him toward intellectual pursuits. One day in 12th-grade English class, he shouted me down: “The only reason you’re a Christian is because that’s the wayContinue reading “WOODROW. Romans 9:14-16, 20-21.”

Predestination vs. Free Will. Daniel 11:27.

How can God know the future, yet still allow us to make our own decisions? “If he knows what I’m going to do, then didn’t He CAUSE me to do it?” “Foreknowledge is not cause.” I love that simple answer from the Dragon in the John Gardner novel GRENDEL. “Foreknowledge is not cause.” Just becauseContinue reading “Predestination vs. Free Will. Daniel 11:27.”