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Few things distinguish Christian and secular worldviews with greater clarity than the doctrine of providence: that everything that happens is the outcome of the sovereign overruling of God. So what is Providence? In this booklet, Derek Thomas examines the providence of God by observing how the Bible explains the complex lives of men and women as well as weighing opposing viewpoints, including...

Few things distinguish Christian and secular worldviews with greater clarity than the doctrine of providence. This doctrine insists that everything (yes, everything) that happens does so because God wills it to happen, wills it to happen before it happens, wills it to happen in the way that that it happens.1 Such a view signals immediately that history is not arbitrary or fortuitous; neither is it “simple determinism,” “Que Sera, Sera” or, “whatever will be, will be,” as though our own choices and
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