Chasing Choices, Dodging Destiny

Every Christian eventually collides with the same brutal question: Do my choices matter, or has God already written the script?

In Chasing Choices, Dodging Destiny, D. Michael Gross treats free will vs. predestination like what it is-blood sport, not polite theology. He walks you through Scripture's hardest scenes (Eden's bite, Pharaoh's hard heart, Joshua's stark ultimatum, Paul's potter and clay) and the church's loudest brawls (Augustine vs. Pelagius, Luther vs. Erasmus, Calvin vs. Arminius).

The result isn't academic fog. It's street-level theology with pastoral bite: the kind you can carry into grief, relapse, marriage fights, and 2 a.m. prayers. You won't get a system that saws off half the Bible. You'll get a bigger faith-one that admits the paradox, refuses clichés, and insists that sovereignty and responsibility both show up in the text and in your life.

Raw, irreverent, and relentlessly honest, this book won't tell you what to think. It will teach you how to stand in the tension with courage, humility, and hope.