Category: Election

  • Mega Church Pastor vs. Truck Driver

    Mega church pastor Steven Furtick recently tweeted this: Any interpretation of God’s sovereignty that diminishes the value of human initiative – is distorted & DANGEROUS. I forwarded that to a truck driver in our church, and he responded with this: I have this written down in my truck. I would…

  • Am I Elect?

    Good counsel from George Whitefield concerning ascertaining whether one is of the elect– That great man, Dr. Isaac Watts, who was called the sweet singer of Israel, says, ‘We should go first to the grammar school of faith and repentance, before we go to the university of predestination.’ Whereas the…

  • Election as Our Motivation for Thanksgiving

    At Orwell Bible Church, which I pastor, each week we put out a little booklet called, “This Week’s Walk with the Lord.” Most of my thoughts on biblical passages that I record here are the result of my daily Bible reading from that booklet. This morning I read 1 Thessalonians…