Hello, Layton Flowers here with SoTriology 101.

I just wanted to take a minute and stop and say thank you.

I could not do this without the donors, patrons, prayer support that you all provide.

I know I say on many broadcasts this is a listener-supported

ministry and that is so very true. What we do to help spread the news of God's love and provision

can only be accomplished with your help. You stand with me not only through prayer but through

financial gifts that help us to continue to leverage resources,

promote material, advertise, and get the word out of God's love and provision for all people.

That doesn't happen without people standing with us, and I just want to say thank you.

Now, because of the position I'm in, I get to read all these messages that come in.

Some of them not so good.

I admit they can be a little harsh, but others are so absolutely encouraging. And I wanted to share

at least one of those encouraging messages with you because it's because you give, because you

pray, because you support us, that these kinds of messages come in. This one's from a listener named

Samantha. She wrote this, hey, Dr. Flowers, I was completely against you very recently, but it was my

son that made me rethink all these things. It was him asking, how do I get saved? Calvinism made

that very hard for me to answer. It broke my heart. I knew to say confess, believe,

repent, et cetera, but he also said, what if I do that and I'm not chosen? And she says, that broke my

heart. I said to myself, how can this be right? So I decided to study it again with a fresh new,

clean-slated perspective. I'm starting to see the truth. It's all making

more sense. Thank you for your fair videos representing Calvinism and not bashing Calvinists and accepting

them as our brothers and sisters in Christ, Samantha. This is just one of many messages that I've

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