Three Streams

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Entries Tagged ‘Election’

Chosen

Is it possible, can it be true?
That it wasn’t my choice to be chosen by you?
If it is possible, how can it be?
Out of all of the peopl;e, you chose to call me?
A sinner by nature, no good of my own,
Saved only by grace, through faith alone!
Father, is it possible, can it be true?
That I [...]

Why would God give us the freewill/choice to hate him if He wants us to love Him?

This was the question posed to me on Friday night by the freind of one of the young people who comes to our Youth Night. If that wasnt challenging enough it was accompanied by the statement ‘If you can answer it for him he says he will come to church’! So here you have this [...]

The Covenant of Grace

“I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word.” John 17:6
This verse, and others like it, reveal a tremendous yet often overlooked truth.
Let me highlight what I mean.

Jesus revealed the Father to certain people (their faith [...]

  

    "I will defy any man who has held a deep experience of his own odious depravity to believe any other doctrines but those which are commonly called Calvinism."
    C.H. Spurgeon