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April 15, 2025
Does Spiritual Death Mean Unbelievers Cannot Respond to God?
2 Corinthians 4:4-6, Acts 11:14, Acts 16:14, Acts 17:27, Blinding, Calvinism, Ephesians 2:1, Ephesians 2:5-8, Free-will, Hebrews 11:6, John 5:40, Matthew 7:7-11, Response, Romans 3:11, Romans 8:28-30, Spiritual Death, Unbelievers
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.
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October 19, 2023
Romans–Part 36–Romans 11:1-5
Election, Free-will, Grace, Israel, Rejected, Remnant, Replacement Theology, Romans 11:1-5
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
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September 7, 2023
Do We Have Free Will to Come to Christ?
Acts 17:27, Believe, Calvinist, Draw, drawing, Draws, Elect, Election, Free-will, General Revelation, Holy Spirit, John 1:11, John 16:6, John 5:39-40, John 6:44-45, John 6:63-65, Ps 19:1, Rom 1:19-20
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
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August 22, 2023
Does Luke 13:3 Say Repentance Is Needed for Salvation? Also: Why Do Only Dispensationalists Believe in the Judgment Seat of Christ?
1 John 2:28, 2 Cor 5:9-10, Christ, Dispensationalist, Eternal Salvation, Free-will, Judgment Seat, Luke 13:3, Luke 19:15-26, Perish, Repentance, Rev 20:11-15, Rev 20:4, sovereignty, Westminster Confession
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!
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July 20, 2023
Romans–Part 26–Romans 9:14-33
Compassion, Free-will, Gentiles, God’s Power, Hardened, heart, Israel, Mercy, Pharaoh, Romans 9:14-33
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
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April 25, 2022
Aren’t Our Beliefs Predetermined Before We Are Born?
Determinism, Free-will
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
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Free Will and Eternal Security

January 28, 2020 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Eternal Security, Free-will, Titus 1:2
A friend sent me this second-hand question: “Question from a friend online: ‘If God desires for us to always have free will, why would He not allow us to give back the free gift of eternal life if we so choose?’” How would you answer that? My answer involves two counter questions. Does God really
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Peter Kreeft on Free Will

August 22, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Free-will, Peter Kreeft, Total depravity
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

May 28, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - bondage of the will, Free-will, J.I. Packer, Martin Luther, Total depravity
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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The Sin Process — James 1:14-15

May 8, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Free-will, James, Sin, temptation
  Why do you sin? What is the process that leads you down that path? No one causes you to sin. Not Satan. Not demons. Not God. It all comes down to your free choice. You choose to sin. But how? How does it happen? James explains it in this passage: But each one is
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