Ligonier Ministries has announced that R.C. Sproul’s entire teaching-series library is now permanently free to stream online and in the Ligonier app. More than 170 audio and video series, 1,400 messages, and 500 hours of teaching are now available without charge.
Ligonier deserves our sincere thanks. For decades, the ministry R.C. founded has helped ordinary Christians think carefully about the holiness of God, and making this library free is a generous service to the church. I hope Christians everywhere take full advantage of it.
Few teachers have influenced my understanding of God’s sovereignty and predestination more than R.C. Sproul. I was raised Lutheran, and I didn’t come to the Reformed doctrine of predestination easily. Sproul had a rare gift for taking a doctrine many Christians instinctively resist and making us face the biblical text with clarity.
His Chosen by God teaching series was especially important to me. Sproul kept pressing the real question: not whether predestination made me comfortable, but whether Scripture taught it. He helped me see election as the gracious purpose of a personal God who saves sinners through Christ.
The struggle eventually led me out of my Lutheran church, and leaving was painful. The God Who Saves: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination explains how Romans 9 forced me to reckon with the doctrine, why election rests entirely on grace, and how predestination gives Christian assurance its deepest foundation.
I am grateful to Ligonier for making Sproul’s teaching freely available. If you’ve always found predestination harsh or confusing, Chosen by God is a good place to begin. Sproul didn’t pretend every hard question would disappear; he kept bringing us back to the holy God who owes sinners justice and gives mercy freely in Christ.
For a direct response to recent objections involving Romans 9, human freedom, and God’s justice, read Dinesh D’Souza’s Case Against Calvinism, Answered.
Featured image: R.C. Sproul, 2006. Photograph by James Thompson, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY 2.0. Cropped from the original.
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