Definition
Common grace, as an expression of the goodness of God, is every favor, falling short of salvation, which this undeserving and sin-cursed world enjoys at the hand of God; this includes the delay of wrath, the mitigation of our sin-natures, natural events that lead to prosperity, and all gifts that human use and enjoy naturally.
Summary
While humanity is totally depraved and deserving of God’s wrath, God mercifully postpones his destroying wrath and graciously blesses all men, even apart from salvation. This is called God’s common grace. Common grace includes all undeserved blessings that natural man receives from the hand of God: rain, sun, prosperity, health, happiness, natural capacities and gifts, sin being restrained from complete dominion, etc. The doctrine of common grace explains how a man can be totally depraved and yet still commit acts that are, in some sense, “good.” This common grace, however, falls short of salvific grace; all humans still need the saving work of the Spirit to reconcile them to God.
Podcasts
Videos
Fighting the Lies Our Culture Tells Us about Identity
In this video, Melissa Kruger, Betsy Childs Howard, and Trillia Newbell address the ways that culture distorts our identity in Christ and how to fight it.
Russell Moore on the Christian Sexual Ethic
Russell Moore explains how the roots of the Christian sexual ethic extend back to Creation. Sexual revolutions always over-promise and under-deliver.
Courses
Articles
(Fake) Sex in a Technological Age
Pornography and AI-empowered sex dolls are flip sides of the same coin, diminishing both the goodness of sex and the image of God in women.
God Made Sex, and His Rules Are Good
Why does God care who we sleep with? Because he cares deeply about the people doing the sleeping. He cares because sex was his idea, not ours.
No Social-Media Algorithm Rewards Grace
Our hearts lead us to sign up as gladiators for social-media warfare—or to punch our tickets, grab our popcorn, and watch the madness.
The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self
We have been here before—despised, considered immoral, standing on the margins. And we can learn lessons that will fortify us as we move into an uncertain future.
Tim and Kathy Keller on Why Marriage Is Not About Us
In only 100 pages, Kathy and Timothy Keller offer a deeply countercultural vision of marriage for the modern age.
Let’s Deconstruct a Deconversion Story: The Case of Rhett and Link
We live in a day when two YouTube comedians, in just three hours of video, can persuade Christians to rethink their faith.
