The Plan: How God Got the World Ready for Jesus is Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson’s most recent book for children.
A full preview of the book is available online.
Publisher’s Description: Before the dawn of time a plan was made… a plan to save and a plan to love, a plan to rescue and a plan to [...]

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From The Preaching of Jonathan Edwards, John Carrick
… Edwards maintains, that fallen man suffers moral inability and there are certain things that he simply cannot do. First, (Edwards explains to the Indians in the latest preaching on this text), [December 1751] men cannot make satisfaction for their sins; only God can do that. Second, men [...]

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Tim Challies shares some heartbreaking-though-hope-filled emails about the lose of this little newborn girl.
Update.
(HT: BTW)
Paul Schafer, a fellow Brother and blogger, recently lost his daughter, Abigail Schafer. Please keep his family in your prayers along with the Rainey’s.

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In Our Sovereign God (p. 34) Roger R. Nicole discusses the Perseverance of the Saints.
Dr. Nicole writes:
The last point [in TULIP] is called “the perseverance of the saints,” and the emphasis is that those who have been won by the grace of God will not lose out but will be preserved by God’s grace to [...]

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‘Edwards cherished the Calvinist doctrine of the sovereignty of grace. He agreed that Christ died only for the elect and that they alone would experience the supernatural and sovereign “divine influence and operation, by which saving grace is obtained.’
E. Brooks Holifield in ‘Edwards as Theologian’ in The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Edwards, 149.

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