10 Reasons Why Believing in the Sovereignty of God Matters
This article offers ten reasons from Scripture why it matters whether we believe the sovereignty of God.
Divine Sovereignty and Evangelism
Does the sovereignty of God kill the need for evangelism? Looking at the relationship between the sovereignty of God and evangelism, this article shows both the negative and positive aspect of thinking about this relationship. It shows that God's sovereignty should offer hope for success in evangelism.
The Mystery of Sovereignty
This article describes the relationship between God's sovereignty and human responsibility. These two truths must be accepted as they are revealed to us by God, without diminishing the one but rather upholding them both equally.
Preaching the Sovereignty of God
God is sovereign over creation, history and salvation. This article looks at Acts 2, pointing to Peter as an example of how to preach the sovereignty of God. Preaching the gospel requires ministers to preach the sovereignty of God.
The Significance of the Canons of Dort for Today Sovereign Grace, Human Responsibility and "Cheap" Grace
The Sovereignty of God
Perversions of Divine Sovereignty
The Sovereignty of God and Healing Its Implications for Africa
How to Understand God's Sovereignty
What is meant by the sovereignty of God? Many people do not grasp the fact that God is the cause not only of the results but also the means and process. This article explains the matter.
Six Effects of God's Power
What is the effect of the power of God? This article lists six things that important for us to understand.
Ten Things You Should Know about the Sovereignty of God
What do we mean when we confess the sovereignty of God? This article discusses ten things you should know on the subject.
Knowing God Can Do the Impossible Should Affect the Way We Live
The sovereignty of God implies that God can do the impossible. This reality should impact your prayer, giving, and evangelism, and the article fleshes this out.
Truth for Exiles
By His Fatherly Hand
The sovereignty of God is a doctrine that is not easy for Christians to accept. This article emphasizes that plans all human history, including the details of our lives, and successfully and unfailingly accomplishes his plan.
A Perfect Fit Scripture’s Divine/Human Tectonic Plates Balance Exactly
An Open Question? God’s Foreknowledge is Complete – Including Our Suffering
Woolly Thinking Open Theism is like Tugging on a Thread – the Whole Jumper may Unravel
Free Will and God’s Sovereignty
Are we born with a free will? To answer this question this article dispels the misconceptions about free will, and then looks at the relationship between free will, the sovereignty of God, and human responsibility.
Almighty Who Allows Us Room
The Power of God
The Sovereignty of God: An Anchor in the Midst of the Storms of Life
How to be comforted in suffering? The answer is found in knowing the sovereignty of God. This article explains what the Bible means by God's sovereignty and it shows how this is the source of comfort in suffering.
The Sovereignty of God in Salvation
Why is it that some people are saved and others are not? This article traces the answer to this question to the sovereignty of God in salvation. It argues that the biblical answer is found in that God the Father elected certain ones to salvation, God the Son died for the elect, and God the Spirit quickens the elect.
The Knowledge of God
The omniscience of God refers to the truth that God knows everything. But what does this mean? This article answers this question and shows how this relates to the Christian life.
Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility
The sovereignty of God and human responsibility seem like a contradiction in terms. This article looks at the relationship between the two and shows from Romans 9 how this appearance of contradiction must be dealt with.
Reformed Theology
The distinguishing character of Reformed theology is the place it gives to God. By looking at TULIP—total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints—this article shows how this is so.
"God in Control"
Divine Sovereignty and Human Responsibility
This article looks at the response of the Puritans to Arminianism when looking at salvation and its relationship with divine sovereignty and human responsibility. Does man act out of free will, or not? The author also discusses man's will and God's sovereignty in relation to mission work.
Should We Preach the Sovereignty of God
This article understands the sovereignty of God to mean that God has absolute authority over the whole created order, has the absolute ability to fulfill His desire, and is autonomous. Here the author appeals for the preaching of this sovereignty of God. The author also deals with objections to preaching the sovereignty of God in public and the challenge of open theism.
What Is Open Theism?
The Thoughts of God
A Hair's Breadth from Pantheism: Meister Eckhart's God-centered Spirituality
Can God be omnipotent and omniscient, and a human being be truly free at the same time? If human beings are free, does this not limit God's omnipotence and omniscience? Corduan makes use of Meister Eckhart, teacher at the University of Paris in the 13th century, as a guide to reflect on the God-man relationship.
God’s Sovereign Good Pleasure
This article looks at the relationship between the sovereignty of God and man's free will. The author maintains that it is impossible to talk about man having a free will.
God’s Almighty Power
If God Is Sovereign, Why Do Anything?
The author of this article explains why a person should not think in terms of "indifferent fatalism." This explanation includes the role of man's choices within the overall sphere of the sovereignty of God.
Counselling and the Sovereignty of God
Christian counselling can only be done by embracing the truth about God, and true hope in counselling can only be given by embracing the sovereignty of God. This article explains the relationship between counselling and God's sovereignty.
The Inconsistency of Four-Point Calvinism
This article highlights what happens to all the other points of Calvinism if limited atonement is considered false.
The Sovereignty of God over Evil
Does the sovereignty of God mean that he is the author of sin, that he is the cause of sin, or that he ordained sin or permits sin? This article addresses the matter.
The Price of Internal Consistency?
There is always a tension in affirming both divine sovereignty and human freedom. This article examines Clark Pinnock's attempt to reconcile God's sovereignty with human freedom by suggesting that God knows all that can be known, which does not include future human decisions. However, God is omnicompetent and thus able to bring about his ultimate goals.
Reconciling Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom
This essay wrestles to reconcile the sovereignty of God with human freedom. It describes the appeal to paradox, paying particular attention to the various senses of the term. The author concludes that the appeal to paradox fails as a result of its claim that a logical reconciliation of sovereignty and human freedom is known to be impossible.
Master Weaver
The Consistency of Divine Sovereignty and Human Accountability
The author wrestles with the question of the sovereignty of God and human responsibility. The sovereignty of God seems to take away from man's responsibility or accountability. On the other hand, human responsibility seems to rob God of his sovereignty. The author searches for the biblical relationship between these two concepts.