1. We’d like to say that Craig and Troy wrestle with the teaching of election, but actually, it’s no struggle at all. The promises of God are freely given to all in Christ, and the elect are those who are in Him. He alone is our security.
  2. The series on the history of the Reformation comes to an end with a recap on the Formula of Concord and the beginnings of the Thirty Years War.
  3. How are we to understand election in Romans 9? What does it mean that God loved Jacob and hated Esau?
  4. All views of election and predestination are not equal. These are doctrines meant to comfort and provide assurance.
  5. As the last confession in the Book of Concord, the Formula of Concord strove to unite a Lutherans around a standard set of answers regarding doctrinal controversy.