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George Whitefield escribió esta carta a John Wesley en 1740 en respuesta a su sermón titulado “Gracia libre”. Whitefield creía que la cuestión del libre albedrío versus la elección era vital para un cristianismo sólido, y se apresuró a escribir desde Georgia, en las colonias americanas, a su amigo del otro lado del mar. Del prefacio: «Muchos de mis amigos, fervientes defensores de la redención universal, se sentirán inmediatamente ofendidos. Muchos de los que son celosos en la otra parte se alegrarán mucho. Quienes son tibios en ambos bandos, y se dejan llevar por ...

The doctrine of providence is often too abstract, complex, or detached from real-life situations for introductory students. Drawing on years of experience in the classroom and the church, Adamson Co offers an introductory guide that uses the creation motif of the Bible to highlight the importance of providence for the Christian life.

Learned yet approachable, Mouw explains how Christians can affirm God’s justice while holding hope for the wideness of his saving mercy. Congregations today face pressing questions about how to reconcile orthodoxy with empathy in increasingly pluralist neighborhoods and communities. For Reformed pastors, students, and interested laypeople, Divine Generosity serves as a biblically based, doctrinally sound guide.

In this, one of the most influential works of the post-Hegelian era, Feuerbach captures the synthesis that emerges from the dialectical process of a transcending Godhead & the rational & material world. In understanding the true nature of what it means to be fully human, he contends that we come face to face with the essence of Xian theology: human beings investing ordinary concepts with divine meaning & significance. The true danger to humanity occurs when theology is given the force of dogma & doctrine.

Knowing, loving, and worshiping God is the call and privilege of every disciple of Jesus. Because all Christians are part of his royal priesthood, theology is not just for those teaching in the academy or serving in ministry vocations. Theology proper centers on God, exploring his existence, his divine nature, his Persons, and his attributes. In this book you will find an overview of these truths in the doctrine of God as well as other great truths in the doctrine of divine revelation.

Unfortunately, many well-meaning, Christ-loving saints have been held hostage by prophecy teachers using questions like these to cast doubt upon God's prophetic promises for the New Testament Church. When the End Begins is a God-given tool to break through the spiritual chains of bondage. Listen to the book! Heed the warning! Consider yourself bound no longer!

What are angels? Who are they and what can we learn from them? In Scripture, angels are mentioned over 250 times in thirty-four books of the Bible. Angels were present, rejoicing at God’s forming of the earth (Job 38:4-7). They visited Abraham’s house and brought judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 18, 19:13). They were involved with the transmission of the Ten Commandments to Moses (Gal 3:19). An angel gave prophecies to Daniel about Israel’s future (Dan 9, 10). Likewise, an angel prophesied the messiah’s birth to both Mary and Joseph (Matt 1, Lk 1). An angel strengthened Christ ...

In a world of flawed heroes, crooked politicians, and people who lie as naturally as they breathe, who can you trust? Who do you trust? You may not be sure if God exists or if Jesus was a real person. You may be confused about a lot of stuff in the Bible. If any of those statements are true for you, you're not alone. But if you're curious to know more about God--who, what, and where He is--this book and its eighteen brief lessons will help you learn for yourself. Plus, you can submit your own questions about God to be answered in subsequent volumes. Theology--the story of God--is the queen ...

"Solid Ground" is the second edition of "Sound Doctrine." Mr. Clay has been a Christian for over fifty years, and he has written an accessible book for those who are interested in knowing more about the Christian faith and what Christians believe. In short chapters, Mr. Clay begins with the basics of Christianity and builds on them to address more controversial topics. His aim is two- fold: he wants to help Christians understand their faith and be better able to respond to God, and he wants to provide a book that someone who is not a Christian can use to understand the Christian religion. ...

Imagine a life of street crime. What began as typical teen rebellion became cycles of dodging the police, nodding on the corner, and seeing your friends and loved ones shot or killed. Then someone tells you the truth - God loves YOU. Though you can barely believe it you do, because their voices bring hope of a better life. Like a child learning to walk, you stumble through life less and now you can run. As your life slowly changes for the better you begin to see and hear things that no longer ring true. You're learning for yourself that God's love for you is real, but the way you're being ...

The Bible has served as the anchor of American culture from the earliest days of our founding. While connected to this anchor, our nation prospered like none before us. Today, our nation has disconnecting itself from the Bible, and we are adrift in a sea of relativism that threatens the very fabric of our society. Truth itself is now considered relative, and thus for all practical purposes, no longer exists. The Bible is dismissed as foolishness by a world growing more foolish every day.

Doctrinal deviation, degeneration, and denigration is a perilous path leading not to genuine unity of the Spirit, as posited by its propagators, but rather disunity with the Spirit, apostasy, perdition, and ultimately hell itself! An oft recited slogan in some segments of the church over the last few decades is: "We must agree to disagree without being disagreeable." In itself, the import of that pun has some merit.

Everybody has a form of eschatology—beliefs about their future or the world's. For some, eschatology brings despair because everything ends in death—including the individual and the universe. Some have a vague hope of the afterlife. For Christians, they should have a certain hope because God has laid out his plan for the end times in Scripture. He reveals these things to teach his saints about his glory and control over history, to encourage them in uncertain times, and to equip them for good works, among other things. For these reasons, we should not neglect eschatology but instead ...

Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology is widely influential. It is well laid out, easy to understand, and has components that make working through it a spiritual experience. The problem is that it is wrong at a number of fundamental points. This is the first of seven e-booklets summarizing and evaluating Grudem's theology. This first e-booklet evaluates his theology of Scripture, whose underlying problem is that it is riddled with anachronistic thinking. Grudem neither knows how to fully read the books of the Bible in context, nor is aware of how fundamentalist Reformed influences have skewed ...

Glimmerings brings the high-voltage tensions of faith as felt by many into the realm of relationship, where our hope might be bolstered in community with kindred minds. This vivid interpersonal offering brings together one of the world’s leading Christian theologians, Miroslav Volf, with one of the most celebrated voices in modern American poetry, Christian Wiman, in this private-now-public exchange of letters on these very pressing tensions of our time.

Examining God, the gospel, the Christian life, and more, Cunnington shows how the theme of distinction without separation unlocks doctrine and enables true community.

Throughout history, Christians have pictured the relationships between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit through analogies. Such illustrations—some from the West but also from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and other places—come laden with theological ramifications that the church has rejected (heresies) or embraced (doctrines). In Three in One, William David Spencer shares a lifetime of insights from teaching within the global church, bringing fresh images and analogies of the Trinity to deepen our theological vocabulary.

What is salvation? Why do humans need it? And what is its process? The doctrine of salvation essentially teaches how humans are condemned to an eternal hell by a just and righteous God because of their sins. However, instead of condemning all of humanity without any hope of redemption, God provided a means of salvation, so that the condemned may become righteous and dwell eternally with him in a place of blessing. In this study, we will consider salvation by exploring some of the elements within the order of its process, the gospel message, and theological issues associated with salvation ...

Who is Jesus Christ? This question elicits a lot of mystery and confusion. Some say Jesus was only a regular human—maybe a wise man or prophet. Others say he is a created being, like an angel. Still, others say Jesus is God but not human. While others say he is both fully God and fully human. Who exactly is Jesus? Scripture teaches that our eternal destiny depends on how we answer this question (1 John 4:2-3, Rom 10:9-10); therefore, it befits us to reflect on this question and answer it correctly. In Christology, we’ll consider what the Bible says about Jesus Christ, so that we may ...

And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament … (Revelation 11:19) The Ark of the Covenant, along with the Mercy Seat positioned atop it, is the most mysterious of the furniture items within the Tabernacle of Moses. This is especially true in regards to the cherubim that were mounted on the two ends of the Mercy Seat. There is also the matter of the Arks contents and its ministry on the annual Day of Atonement. In this 6th addition to The Tabernacle Series, Isaac B. Dargan takes on the task of explaining the spiritual implications ...