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What Is the Free Grace View of Election?

June 13, 2025 1 Peter 2:4, Acts 1:2, Acts 10:14, Acts 15:7, Election, eternal life, Free-will, John 15:16, service

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about election. Obviously, the Bible does talk about election, but there are differing […]

Does Spiritual Death Mean Unbelievers Cannot Respond to God?

April 15, 2025 2 Corinthians 4:4-6, Acts 11:14, Acts 16:14, Acts 17:27, Blinding, Calvinism, Ephesians 2:1, Ephesians 2:5-8, Free-will, Hebrews 11:6, John 5:40, Matthew 7:7-11, Response, Romans 3:11, Romans 8:28-30, Spiritual Death, Unbelievers

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and David Renfro are answering a question about the being spiritually dead. Does this mean there is a complete inability […]

Romans–Part 36–Romans 11:1-5

October 19, 2023 Election, Free-will, Grace, Israel, Rejected, Remnant, Replacement Theology, Romans 11:1-5

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Kathryn Wright and Ken Yates are beginning to look at the (sometimes difficult) issues of Romans chapter 11. Is God done with Israel? […]

Do We Have Free Will to Come to Christ?

September 7, 2023 Acts 17:27, Believe, Calvinist, Draw, drawing, Draws, Elect, Election, Free-will, General Revelation, Holy Spirit, John 1:11, John 16:6, John 5:39-40, John 6:44-45, John 6:63-65, Ps 19:1, Rom 1:19-20

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are responding to a question about John 6:65 where Jesus asserts that no one comes to Him unless […]

Does Luke 13:3 Say Repentance Is Needed for Salvation? Also: Why Do Only Dispensationalists Believe in the Judgment Seat of Christ?

August 22, 2023 1 John 2:28, 2 Cor 5:9-10, Christ, Dispensationalist, Eternal Salvation, Free-will, Judgment Seat, Luke 13:3, Luke 19:15-26, Perish, Repentance, Rev 20:11-15, Rev 20:4, sovereignty, Westminster Confession

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Mike Lii are answering a few great questions about repentance, Luke 13:3, God’s sovereignty, man’s free will, dispensationalists, and the […]

Romans–Part 26–Romans 9:14-33

July 20, 2023 Compassion, Free-will, Gentiles, God’s Power, Hardened, heart, Israel, Mercy, Pharaoh, Romans 9:14-33

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Kathryn Wright and Ken Yates are continuing to look at the (sometimes difficult) issues of Romans chapter 9. Did God really harden Pharaoh’s […]

Aren’t Our Beliefs Predetermined Before We Are Born?

April 25, 2022 Determinism, Free-will

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Bob and Shawn are currently taking questions from our listeners. Today, they will be unpacking issues related to predestination. Are our beliefs predetermined before […]

Free Will and Eternal Security

January 28, 2020 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Eternal Security, Free-will, Titus 1:2

A friend sent me this second-hand question: “Question from a friend online: ‘If God desires for us to always have free will, why would He not allow us to give […]

Peter Kreeft on Free Will

August 22, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Free-will, Peter Kreeft, Total depravity

Peter Kreeft is a prolific Catholic philosopher and apologist. He has written numerous books on apologetics and introductions to philosophy that I greatly enjoyed. What makes Kreeft’s introductions different is […]

J. I. Packer and The Bondage of Tradition

May 28, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - bondage of the will, Free-will, J.I. Packer, Martin Luther, Total depravity

J. I. Packer, the famed Reformed Anglican theologian, has written more book forewords than anyone I know. It seems that every book published by a Calvinist either has a foreword […]

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