Welcome!  The essays and devotionals posted below are designed to serve as a resource for pastors and other Christian teachers and students of the Bible who wish to explore or defend an Arminian-Reformed interpretation of Scripture. I attempt in these essays to avoid polemics and to achieve instead a balanced, responsible interpretation of Scripture that upholds the integrity of God's Word. It is my hope that these essays and devotionals will inspire you to greater love for our Lord Jesus and greater service in His name.
Faith and Works
Despising God
The Order of Faith and Election in John's Gospel: You Do Not Believe Because You Are Not My Sheep
Election in Romans Chapter Nine
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Most recently posted essays:
posted 7/22/2002
Robert L. Hamilton
last updated 9/28/2004
posted 6/30/2002
posted 5/13/2002
posted 11/30/2001
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Other previously posted essays by category:
Arminian/Calvinist Concerns:
Sanctification and Christian Living
The Wills of God: Assessing Arminian and Calvinist Accounts of God's Seemingly Conflicting Wills Toward Human Evil and the Scope of Salvation
Philosophical Reflections on Free Will
Does Arminianism Diminish God's Glory?
Does Hebrews 6:6 Teach that Apostasy is Without Remedy?
Can a Person Accidentally Commit the Unpardonable Sin?
Can Arminians Be Assured of Their Salvation?
Deliberate Sin Erodes Faith
When an Immunization Becomes Fatal: Must Faith Persevere?
posted 9/1/2001
posted 11/11/2000; revised 7/13/2002
posted 1/23/2001; revised 3/19/2001
posted 5/24/2001
posted 4/5/2001
posted 6/5/2000
posted 9/7/2000
posted 8/14/2000
Submission
Obsessed With Christ
Without Spot or Blame
Three Lies About Sin
No More Fear
Killing the Serpent
Death and Freedom in the Christian
posted 1/27/2002
posted 1/13/2002
posted 12/21/2001
posted 9/7/2000
posted 4/19/2001
posted 3/18/2001
posted 5/24/2001
How to Be More Like Jesus: Living in Jesus' Name
posted 11/26/1999
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Thoughts on Original Sin
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posted 1/3/2001
posted 5/20/2000
posted 5/20/2000; revised 1/3/2001
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posted 2/11/2000; revised 7/14/2000
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Grace To Be Holy
posted 7/24/2004
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"If my heart can be so fickle, my will so inconsistent,
then how can I have any confidence that the
sanctification I am experiencing today will continue
into the future? Indeed, what assurance do I have
that I will even want to be sanctified in the future? . . ."
More Grace!
What Melts God's Heart
posted 9/19/2004
"How could the Father embrace one
who has returned home draped in
rotten rags still carrying the
lingering stench of rebellion?
How could he kiss a cheek still caked in
the hardened residue of sin?"

What Melts God's Heart
More Grace!
posted 9/28/2004