The following is a portion from an interview about PROOF found in the May 2014 issue Towers Magazine, the campus magazine for The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. MD: How does your [PROOF] acronym relate to TULIP? Are you replacing it? TPJ: Well, it’s somewhat unfortunate that, if someone has heard of Reformed soteriology, it’s typically been described […]
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PROOF: What Is Outrageous Grace? #4DaysUntilPROOF
An excerpt from the forthcoming book PROOF: Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace God’s choice to adopt certain sinners as his children solely on the basis of his own good pleasure is sometimes known as “unconditional election.” In the simplest possible terms, unconditional election is God’s eternal choice of some persons unto […]
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PROOF: #5DaysUntilPROOF Winners
The winners of today’s contest were Matt McCraw and Ben Curtis! Both of them will be receiving free, signed copies of PROOF: Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace.
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PROOF: A Window to God’s Glory, a Mirror for His Grace #5DaysUntilPROOF
The following is a portion from an interview about PROOF found in the May 2014 issue Towers Magazine, the campus magazine for The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. MD: So, proof of what? TPJ: The focus of PROOF is the unassailable proof of grace that God has provided through the cross of Jesus Christ. In Jesus Christ, […]
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PROOF: Win a Free Signed Copy of PROOF Today #5DaysUntilPROOF
If you’re interested in winning a free copy of PROOF today, post the message below on Facebook, Twitter, or both: God’s choice to adopt us as his children had nothing to do with anything we have done or might do. #5DaysUntilPROOF http://tiny.cc/PRF Tonight, my children will once again randomly choose two winners, one winner from […]
[Read More...]PROOF: What Is Resurrecting Grace? #6DaysUntilPROOF
An excerpt from the book PROOF: Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace: God’s plan has always been to multiply the fame of his own name by giving new life to the spiritually dead (Ephesians 1:4–2:5). The price that this plan required was nothing less than the slaughter of a perfect substitute—a gift […]
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PROOF: #7DaysUntilPROOF Winners
The winners of today’s contest were Jason Pisani and Ryan K. Boyd! Both of them will be receiving free, signed copies of PROOF: Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace.
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PROOF: Win a Free Signed Copy of PROOF Today #7DaysUntilPROOF
If you’re interested in winning a copy of PROOF today, post the message below on Facebook, Twitter, or both: Spiritual zombies don’t choose grace for same reason prison escapees don’t seek out police stations. #7DaysUntilPROOF http://tiny.cc/PRF Tonight, my children will randomly choose one winner from Facebook and one winner from Twitter. If you’re a winner, […]
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PROOF: Not a “Mama Tried” Kind of God
Broken dreams are woven deeply into the fabric of human existence—so deeply that it’s easy for us to assume God’s plans fail, just like ours. In fact, that’s precisely what some theologians have claimed over the past few decades. According to one best-selling book from a Jewish rabbi, God wishes he could make everything right […]
[Read More...]PROOF: What Is Planned Grace? #8DaysUntilPROOF
An excerpt from the forthcoming book PROOF: Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace: It’s perfectly possible for you or me to have a plan and pay the price but then lack the power to make it happen. That’s why we sometimes need a vacation to recover from our vacations. That never […]
[Read More...]PROOF: A Quick Introduction to PROOF #9DaysUntilPROOF
Here’s a quick video introduction to the forthcoming book PROOF: Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace:
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PROOF: Win Free Copies of PROOF! #10DaysUntilPROOF
Over the next ten days, I will be giving away ten signed copies of the forthcoming book PROOF: Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace! If you’re interested in winning one of these ten books, simply tweet or post on Facebook one of the messages listed below. On each date listed below, two […]
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PROOF: A New Book and the Noetic Effect of the Fall
[Please note the addendum at the end of this post.] Ever since Adam’s fall into iniquity, our minds have been—in the words of John Calvin in his commentary on Genesis—“smitten with blindness and infected with innumerable errors.” The primeval fall not only stained our natures but also degraded our bodies so that imperfection has crept […]
[Read More...]PROOF: Good News (and Not-So-Good News) for Spiritual Zombies
God’s plan has always been to multiply the fame of his own name by giving new life to the spiritually dead (Ephesians 1:4–2:5). The price that this plan required was nothing less than the slaughter of a perfect substitute—a gift too great for anyone but God to give, with a price too high for anyone […]
[Read More...]PROOF: God Doesn’t Need You—and That’s Good News
A little more than a decade ago, my wife and I sat at a table in a cramped office that reeked of scorched coffee and mildewed carpet. While social workers shuffled around us, we pored over page after page in a file that never seemed to end. “Cruelty to animals.” “Persistent patterns of theft […]
[Read More...]PROOF: The Beauty of a Plan that Never Fails
An excerpt from the forthcoming book PROOF: Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace: It’s perfectly possible for you or me to have a plan and pay the price but then lack the power to make it happen. That’s why we sometimes need a vacation to recover from our vacations. That never happens […]
[Read More...]PROOF: Nothing Left to Prove
Human religion claims that God will do his part if only you do yours. The gospel of grace declares that God in Christ has already done his part–and yours. From the moment you first rest in Christ as your only hope, you have no failures to hide and no triumphs to hide behind. Your shortfallings […]
[Read More...]PROOF: An Anthem of Resurrecting Grace
In PROOF: Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace, a book I co-authored with Sojourn Community Church pastor Daniel Montgomery, we explain the biblical truth of “resurrecting grace.” What we mean by this is simply that all of us exist as spiritual zombies—the walking dead—until God’s resurrecting grace invades and enlivens our hearts: “Spiritual […]
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Church History: How Christians Settled an Argument About Election
:: Defenestration and Divine Election in Seventeeth-Century Europe :: By the opening years of the seventeenth century, the Reformation had turned European Christianity into a conglomeration of conflicting sects. The Roman Catholic Council of Trent drew a firm line between Catholics and Protestants by declaring that Roman Catholic tradition represents the final authority when it […]
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