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Overcoming Objections to Predestination (Machen)

Machen is helpful in thinking through objections to predestination. In one of his radio addresses, found in “Things Unseen,” he tells us what predestination does NOT mean: It does not mean…that God’s choice of some men for salvation while others are passed by is due to mere chance or that there is anything arbitrary about […]

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Helping Others Out of the Misery of Doubt

I ran across this great quote from Machen on our attitude and approach to unbelievers and regarding our apologetic conversations with them: “[W]e do not regard the people who differ from us regarding these great concerns of the soul as our enemies. On the contrary, we long to help them. Having known something of the […]

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Machen “The Person of Jesus” Quotes

Machen “The Person of Jesus” Quotes Over this summer I read through the radio addresses of J. Gresham Machen that he gave back in the 1930’s shortly before his death. What a delightful read! Here’s some of the quotes I found most helpful. “We should never say with regard to a human friend that it […]