What Is the Free Grace View of Election?
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Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about election. Obviously, the Bible does talk about election, but there are differing views of what it means. Is there a Biblically consistent view? As a free grace organization, where does the Grace Evangelical Society stand? Thank you for listening and keep grace in focus!
Does Spiritual Death Mean Unbelievers Cannot Respond to God?
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Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and David Renfro are answering a question about the being spiritually dead. Does this mean there is a complete inability to respond to God? If Satan is blinding people, how can they possibly come to faith without being regenerated first? This is the Calvinist position. Is it consistent with Scripture? Please listen to this and every episode of the Grace in Focus podcast!
Romans–Part 36–Romans 11:1-5
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Kathryn Wright and Ken Yates are beginning to look at the (sometimes difficult) issues of Romans chapter 11. Is God done with Israel? Are Gentiles beneficiaries of eternal salvation only in the New Testament? What about election? How is God dealing with all this? Listen and enjoy today’s episode of the Grace in Focus podcast!
Do We Have Free Will to Come to Christ?
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are responding to a question about John 6:65 where Jesus asserts that no one comes to Him unless the Father grants it. What is the meaning of this? Is this about election? Listen and learn about it on today’s episode of the Grace in Focus podcast!
Does Luke 13:3 Say Repentance Is Needed for Salvation? Also: Why Do Only Dispensationalists Believe in the Judgment Seat of Christ?
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Mike Lii are answering a few great questions about repentance, Luke 13:3, God’s sovereignty, man’s free will, dispensationalists, and the Judgment Seat of Christ. Bob Wilkin and Mike Lii will offer their thoughts rapid-fire style from a Free Grace position!
Romans–Part 26–Romans 9:14-33
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Kathryn Wright and Ken Yates are continuing to look at the (sometimes difficult) issues of Romans chapter 9. Did God really harden Pharaoh’s heart? And was this part of God’s predestination of Pharaoh? Yet the Old Testament account says that Pharaoh hardened his own heart first. How does Pharaoh play into Paul’s argument in Romans chapter 9? How does God use his life and choices? Listen and enjoy today’s episode of the Grace in Focus podcast!
Aren’t Our Beliefs Predetermined Before We Are Born?
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Bob and Shawn are currently taking questions from our listeners. Today, they will be unpacking issues related to predestination. Are our beliefs predetermined before we are born? Do we have free will? What is the relationship between our beliefs and our works? These, and many more issues will be addressed on the show today. We hope you join us as we seek to keep grace in focus.

Peter Kreeft on Free Will

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Peter Kreeft is a prolific Catholic philosopher and apologist. He has written numerous books on apologetics and introductions to philosophy that I greatly enjoyed. What makes Kreeft’s introductions different is their dialogical format. Plato wrote his philosophy in the forms of dialogues, and Kreeft has followed that tradition. In Kreeft’s case, the dialogues occur between
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J. I. Packer and The Bondage of Tradition

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J. I. Packer, the famed Reformed Anglican theologian, has written more book forewords than anyone I know. It seems that every book published by a Calvinist either has a foreword or an endorsement written by Packer. Packer, along with O. R. Johnston, translated Martin Luther’s The Bondage of the Will (Westwood, NJ: Revell, 1957). They
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