In my experience, no theological topic causes more existential angst than the truth that God has predestined people for salvation. When such a weighty doctrine is broached, what is a preacher to do?

This week, when you go to church, take a moment to reflect that you are being summoned by a loving Father, hands full of gifts he wants to give.

Lutherans have a unique heritage that makes teaching predestination doubly difficult.

He declared you what you might not always feel you are, but what you were from the moment he knew you, before you were you, when he foreknew you.

When the Savior gets on our trail, nothing, not even the grave and hell, can stop him.

On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson discuss Christ's calling of his disciples, Philip and Nathaniel

Amy Mantravadi shares about the importance and influlnce of Martin Chemitz in the predestination controversy.

How the pumpkin patch has a lot to teach us about the love and work of Christ

In today's episode of Tough Texts, Scott Keith and Daniel Emery Price dive into 2 Timothy 2:8-13, a text that reveals Christ for the elect.

The doctrine of election is biblical, good, and comforting . . . but also frequently misunderstood.

And We Are Live! In this episode, we go live for Holy Week and answer listeners' questions: election, repentance, the church, law and gospel, and on and on we go.

Predestination Is Sick! In this episode, we discuss Steven Paulson’s book, The Outlaw God, focusing our conversation on double presentation, preaching God’s electing promise to sinners, and the consequences of worshipping a philosophical-material god. What are the consequences for people who don’t have a preacher of God’s promise? What does God’s promise have to say to those who believe all people will go to heaven when they die? What are the consequences for sinners when they try to know God apart from the promise?