With clear writing-technical terms kept to a minimum-and a contemporary approach, emphasizing how each doctrine should be understood and applied by present-day Christians, Making Sense of Salvation explores God's common grace to redeem those who will be saved, and to demonstrate his goodness, mercy, justice, and glory. Topics include but are not limited to the order of salvation-from God's choice of people to be saved to the chosen people receiving a resurrection body; effective calling-the act of God the father speaking through the human proclamation of the gospel to summons people to himself in saving faith; regeneration-a secret act of God in which he imparts new spiritual life to us; and glorification-when Christ returns and raises from the dead the bodies of all believers for all time who have died. Written in a friendly tone, appealing to the emotions and the spirit as well as the intellect, Making Sense of Salvation helps readers overcome wrong ideas, make better decisions on new questions, and grow as Christians.