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Mike is a former senior pastor and church planter in the Pacific Northwest, and served for three years as the executive producer of The Albert Mohler Program, a nationally syndicated radio show dedicated to Christianity and culture. Mike is a Ph.D. Candidate in American church history at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary writing his dissertation on radio and the American church during the period 1920 to 1950. Mike is husband to Julia and father to four wonderful children: Samuel (9), Anna (7), John (6) and Michael (1). When not reading, writing or editing, Mike loves sports, music and hanging out with his family.
From David Mathis at the DesiringGod blog introducing John Piper's recent sermon on John 3:1-10:
This week's sermon: "The Free Will of the Wind"
The Wind has a will of his own.
We don't control the Wind of God's Spirit. He gives the new birth as he pleases. His will is decisive, not ours. For sure, our will moves when we receive the new birth—it moves toward the crucified Christ. But the decisive Mover is the Spirit. He gets the credit for our new birth.
The free will of the Wind is threatening to those who would be captain of their own souls. But to those who know they are desperate, dead in sin, and utterly unable to save themselves, this truth can be thrilling.
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