Regeneration - Asahel Nettleton
The important and simple doctrine taught by John 1:12-13, is that those who receive Christ-who have power given them to become the sons of God and who believe on his name are born of God. In other words, every real Christian becomes such by a special exertion of Almighty power to change his heart. - More

Irresistible Grace - Jacob Moseley
God, for reasons known only to himself, gives an inward, effectual call, in addition to the outward invitation, to the elect in Christ. This inward call is accompanied with the very power of God, and with it comes a new birth, life, willingness to look unto Christ, and a desire to love and obey him. - More

Regeneration - A. A. Hodge (Revised by B. B. Warfield)
Regeneration (from Lat. re-, again + generare, beget) is a theological term used to express the initial stage of the change experienced by one who enters upon the Christian life. - More

Regeneration: from Jonathan Edwards: A Mini-Theology - John H. Gerstner
Regeneration or "efficacious grace" itself is characteristically decisive, immediate, and solely supernatural. This is the main difference between Calvinists (who affirm it) and Arminians (who deny it). - More

A Practical View of Regeneration - Part III - Archibald Alexander
From what has been said we may deduce the following summary: 1. Regeneration is the commencement of spiritual life in a soul before dead in sin, by the omnipotent agency of God; and the exercises of this life are specifically different from all the exercises of an unregenerate heart... - More

A Practical View of Regeneration - Part II - Archibald Alexander
The question is sometimes asked, whether is regeneration an instantaneous or a gradual work? This is not a merely speculative question. If this is a gradual work, the soul may for some time, yea, for years, be hanging between life and death, and be in neither one state or nor the other, which is impossible. - More

A Practical View of Regeneration - Part I - Archibald Alexander
That human nature has lost that moral purity and perfection with which it was originally endued, is a truth which lies at the heart of the Christian religion. - More

Decisional Regeneration - James E. Adams
Our Lord Jesus Christ taught that the new birth is so important that no one can see heaven without it. Mistakes concerning this doctrine have been very destructive to the Church of Christ. - More

Regeneration - Asahel Nettleton
The important and simple doctrine taught by John 1:12-13 is that those who receive Christ-who have power given them to become the sons of God and who believe on his name are born of God. - More

The Evidences of Regeneration - C.R. Vaughan
THE discussion of regeneration will be made sufficiently complete for the purposes of this little treatise by an exposition of its evidences. - More

The New Genesis - R.C. Sproul
BIRTH and rebirth. Both are the result of the operation of the Holy Spirit. Just as nothing can live biologically apart from the power of the Holy Spirit, so no man can come alive to God apart from the Spirit’s work. - More

Efficacious Grace - Loraine Boettner
The Westminster Confession states the doctrine of Efficacious Grace thus: -- "All those whom God has predestinated unto life, and those only, He is pleased, in His appointed and accepted time, effectually to call, by His Word and Spirit, out of that state of death, in which they are by nature, to grace and salvation by Jesus Christ; enlightening their minds spiritually and savingly, to understand the things of God; taking away their heart of stone, and giving them a heart of flesh; renewing their wills, and by His almighty power determining them to that which is good; and effectually drawing them to Jesus Christ, yet so as they come most freely, being made willing by His grace. - More

An Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism - Part IV: Irrestible Grace - Brian Schwertley
A doctrine crucial to understanding the biblical doctrine of salvation is efficacious grace. Efficacious grace means that men who are dead spiritually are regenerated and effectually called by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit works immediately upon the soul infusing a new spiritual life into it, thus changing it in such a way that it is spiritually alive and oriented toward Jesus Christ. - More

The Five Points of Calvinism - Part 2 - R. L. Dabney
This change must be more than an outer reformation of conduct, an inward revolution of first principles which regulate conduct. It must go deeper than a change of purpose as to sin and godliness; it must be a reversal of the original dispositions which hitherto prompted the soul to choose sin and reject godliness. Nothing less grounds a true conversion. - More

Regeneration or The New Birth - Arthur W. Pink
Two things are absolutely essential in order to salvation: deliverance from the guilt and penalty of sin, and deliverance from the power and presence of sin. - More

The New Birth - Brian Schwertley
The term “born again” is known to most Americans. There has even been a president who claimed to be born again. Most evangelicals and fundamentalists like to refer to themselves as “born again” Christians. Yet these words have little or no meaning to many people. - More