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effectual grace

John Piper on 1 John 5:1 – Those Who Believe Have Been Born of God

by Roger Servin 03.01.2010
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Can You Prove Calvinism to be True Apart from Pauline Scriptures?

by Roger Servin 11.19.2009

Les Lanphere has decided to try and prove Calvinism without using scriptures written by the Apostle Paul.  I like this and think it’s a good challenge since he brings out scriptures found in the gospels and non-Pauline epistles.  So if you’re one of those who say that we only get our theology from Paul, then [...]

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Is the Call of God Effectual or Not?

by Roger Servin 10.16.2009

What is the “calling” of God? The words call, called, and calling are used over 700 times in the Old and New Testaments, according to the New Bible Dictionary. The Greek words translated call include kaleo and its derivatives parakaleo, epikaleo, and kletos, along with legein and phonein. Despite such a variety of words, there [...]

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“Doctrines of Grace” Series with John Piper – Assumptions and Irresistible Grace

by Roger Servin 09.09.2009

Here’s the second video in the TULIP seminar series taught by John Piper in March of 2008. For those of you visiting for the first time you can catch up by watching the introduction to this series located here.
The complete series can be found here.

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“It Is God that Justifieth” – C.H. Spurgeon

by Roger Servin 08.07.2009

–Romans 8:33
A WONDERFUL THING it is, this being justified, or made just. If we had never broken the laws of God we should not have needed it, for we should have been just in ourselves. He who has all his life done the things which he ought to have done, and has never done anything [...]

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Why Do Some Laugh them to Scorn, While Others Humble Themselves?

by Roger Servin 07.26.2009

Over the next couple of weeks I will be posting some old posts of mine from the old blog as well as new original posts inbetween.  I decided not to import all of my posts because I did not want to wreck anything.  So here you go!
Why do some come to Jesus and some [...]

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