By Lucas Kitchen Marty Sampson and Josh Harris, two huge Christian influencers who have publically announced that they have left the faith, share an interesting similarity. I’ll get to that in a moment, but let me first explain what these guys have done. Josh Harris wrote I Kissed Dating Goodbye, along with loads of other

By Bob Wilkin Someone sent me a link to a rather extreme Arminian preacher. Most who believe you can lose everlasting life think that people who believe you can’t lose your salvation still have a good chance of making it to heaven by persevering. However, this preacher thinks that the preaching of eternal security makes

By Summer Stevens I remember listening to a guest speaker in my evangelism class in seminary talk about the thousands of times through the years he had personally shared the gospel. He drew a line on the board that represented both time and intensity. Basically, with your next-door neighbor, you take your time and let

By Ken Yates In Romans 6–8, Paul has a lengthy discussion on the Christian life. The believer can walk by the flesh (in his own power) or by the Spirit. The former results in the wrath of God and the deadly consequences of sin. The latter results in life and peace. Paul compares the way

By John O. Hosler I have been a prayer warrior for GES since its foundation. The promise of eternal life, made possible by the blood of Christ (Acts 20:28), is the only gospel that can provide redemption for the sinner who trusts Christ alone for salvation from eternal condemnation. I have served as a Free

By Marcia Hornok The shortest verse in the English Bible gives solace to us when life turns sad. “Jesus wept,” connecting Him to a number of people whom the Bible recorded as weeping. Can you guess how many? Would the number 60 surprise you? On nearly 80 occasions, 42 different individuals or groups of people

By Shawn Lazar After centuries of promising to send a Messiah, God finally gave a concrete timeline in Daniel 9:24-27 for when He would come. And vv 25-26 give us specific information about what would happen to Messiah at that time: “Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore

By Bob Wilkin Did Zane Hodges believe that saving faith is intellectual assent? Dr. Dave Anderson argues in the book A Defense of Free Grace Theology1 that Wayne Grudem’s view that saving faith is not mental assent is essentially that of nearly all Free Grace advocates.2 (Anderson does reject some aspects of Grudem’s view of

By Donnie Preslar with Bernie Hunsucker Author’s note: Bernie Hunsucker and I are elders at Grace Bible Church in Charlotte, NC, where I am the senior pastor. We graduated from Florida Bible College together in the seventies and founded GBC. Both of us attended Dr. Geisler’s funeral service and took notes. I will incorporate some