Doctrine Defined: Exploring Core Truths of Christianity

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About This Series

A theological series designed to clarify and celebrate the core doctrines of the Christian faith, written to deepen worship and strengthen assurance in Christ.

The Ordo Salutis: Understanding the Order of Salvation

October 2025 • Doctrine Defined

An introduction to the gracious, logical sequence by which God saves—from election to glorification—so that His mercy might be praised and His grace adored.

Election: God’s Sovereign Choice

October 2025 • Doctrine Defined

A study of God’s sovereign act of choosing His people according to grace, as illustrated through Jacob and Esau in Romans 9, revealing mercy that magnifies His glory.

Regeneration: The New Birth

October 2025 • Doctrine Defined

The sovereign work of the Holy Spirit that makes the sinner alive to God—transforming the heart and bringing forth repentance and faith as the fruit of new life.

Effectual Calling: The Voice That Summons

October 2025 • Doctrine Defined

A reflection on the irresistible grace of God’s inward call—the voice that awakens the heart, opens deaf ears, and draws His chosen ones to faith in Christ.

Conversion: Turning to God in Faith and Repentance

October 2025 • Doctrine Defined

A study of the Spirit-empowered turning of the soul from sin to the Savior—showing that even faith and repentance are gifts of divine grace.

Justification: Declared Righteous by Faith

October 2025 • Doctrine Defined

A reflection on the believer’s peace with God through Christ’s imputed righteousness — the moment when faith alone secures an eternal standing before Him.

Adoption: Children of God

November 2025 • Doctrine Defined

Through Christ, those once estranged from God are brought into His family, made His beloved children, and granted the full rights and privileges of sonship.

Sanctification

November 2025 • Doctrine Defined

The lifelong work of God’s grace through which believers are progressively purified and conformed to the image of Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Perseverance: Kept by God’s Sustaining Grace

November 2025 • Doctrine Defined

A comforting study on God’s preserving grace, showing that true believers are upheld by His power and will never finally fall away from faith.

Glorification

November 2025 • Doctrine Defined

The final stage of redemption in which believers are perfectly conformed to the image of Christ—body, soul, and spirit—and freed forever from the presence of sin.

Propitiation

November 2025 • Doctrine Defined

Christ bore the full measure of God’s holy wrath, satisfying divine justice and reconciling sinners through His blood — the perfect expression of love and righteousness.

Imputation: Christ’s Righteousness Counted to Us

November 2025 • Doctrine Defined

A study of how God credits our sin to Christ and Christ’s perfect righteousness to believers — the great exchange at the center of the gospel.

Atonement

November 2025 • Doctrine Defined

Exploring how Christ’s sacrificial death satisfies God’s justice, removes our guilt, and restores us to fellowship with Him through a perfect and complete atonement.

Expiation

November 2025 • Doctrine Defined

A clear explanation of how Christ not only pays for sin but removes it entirely—our guilt lifted, our shame taken away, our record cleansed forever.

The Hypostatic Union

November 2025 • Doctrine Defined

Understanding the mysterious and glorious union of Christ’s divine and human natures — one Person, two full natures, perfect Mediator.

Original Sin: Humanity’s Fallen Nature

December 2025 • Doctrine Defined

A foundational doctrine explaining humanity’s inherited corruption and guilt in Adam, revealing our desperate need for grace and the triumph of Christ, the Second Adam.