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If God Chose Us Before Creation, How Can We Be Free? (podcast)
What was predestined and what wasn’t? Greg sorts it all out in this haunting episode, millions and millions of years in the making.
Episode 505
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Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Predestination
Verse: Ephesians 1, Ephesians 2
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