Calvinism, the Doctrines of Grace, TULIP too,
Are fuller expressions of the Gospel, true and true,
One need not understand all the implications to believe,
All that's needed is to turn from striving, and to Christ receive.
To recognize our need for cleansing from sin,
And to look to Christ alone, to cleanse outwardly and in,
This is the Gospel, in its simplest form,
And the five points of Calvinism, it does adorn.
His Election, limited atonement, drawing grace, and our depravity,
Perseverance, His righteousness, all part of the key,
To understand and embrace these teachings when presented,
Is to believe the Gospel, and in Christ be contented.
So let us cling to the cross, with nothing in our hands,
Simply trust in Christ alone, and on His love depend,
For in Him we find salvation, and all that we need,
And the Doctrines of Grace, they help us indeed.
About Brandan Kraft
Brandan Kraft is a computer programmer from the Missouri Ozarks who has been writing about the sovereign grace of God since 1997. He started with a website called bornagain.net, built it into PristineGrace.org, and has published over two hundred articles, nearly sixty songs, and a growing catalog of podcasts from his living room in Ashland, Kentucky. All without permission from anyone.
He holds no seminary degree, no denominational endorsement, and no theological credentials. He has been writing software for the same employer since 1998. He thinks in systems and believes that the sharpest doctrine should produce the widest arms.
His systematic theology, A Thought in the Mind of God, derives every position from one sentence and applies it across every domain - from ontology to eschatology, from the nature of the human mind to the nature of heaven and hell. It is available at pristinegrace.org/mind.
Brandan lives in Ashland, Kentucky with his wife Angie and their son Cole. He plays trombone in the Marshall University Tri-State Brass Band and changes a diaper twice a day on a cat named OJ who was once paralyzed and whom nobody else wanted.
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