I am Persuaded

Visualizing God’s providence as a chain with interlocking links helps in understanding it better. In the lives of a patriarch named Joseph and an orphan named Esther, all things—envy, cruelty, imprisonment, false accusation, famine, a beauty contest, assassination plots, a sleep­less night, racial/ethnic hatred—were all…

God’s Foreknowledge and Predestination

“For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these…