When Calvinists say "But predestination!" (sermons)

Calvinism centers around the Calvinist definitions of predestination and God's sovereignty - that God controls everything, even sin and evil and our decisions, and so He pre-picks who goes to heaven and causes them to believe in Him, but everyone else is destined for hell with no chance to believe or be saved (and so Jesus never died for them anyway). [ I already have a "When Calvinists say 'But sovereignty!'" post, but I'll briefly include it here since it's so closely tied to predestination, being the reason for Calvinist predestination and all.] And when Calvinist pastors and theologians introduce this topic, they'll often be strategic about it - first implanting their definitions of sovereignty and predestination in our heads and then leading us to verses about God causing/controlling something specific in the Bible and verses that have the word "predestined" in it, and then they'll say "See, God causes and controls everything...