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Chosen in Christ: Revisiting the Contours of Predestination is unavailable, but you can change that!

Cornel Venema revisits the important doctrine of predestination to re-familiarize the church with truths about God’s sovereignty in salvation. But he does not merely re-visit old ground but also engages a host of historic and contemporary challenges to the doctrine. He addresses the subject from exegetical, historical, contemporary, and pastoral vantage points.

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. (Deut. 14:2) In these descriptions of God’s election of Israel to be His people, several themes stand out. God’s choice of Israel is born out of His love for her. The unique privileges that Israel enjoys flow from God’s good pleasure to call Israel into fellowship with Himself, and to grant her a unique status as His treasured
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