Is Ray Comfort Correct That We Are Saved by Grace, Not by Faith?

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Zoltan sent me some videos in which two very popular preachers criticize each other over the issue of repentance and salvation. These preachers are Ray Comfort (with 1,630,000 subscribers) and Ryan Hemelaar (with 147,000 subscribers). See this video by Hamelaar, criticizing Comfort’s view on repentance and salvation, and this video by Comfort, criticizing Hemelaar right
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A Contemporary Model of Preaching (2 Peter 1:1-11) 

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When I went to seminary, we had daily chapel messages. We were required to attend four a week for fifteen weeks, or sixty a semester. During the spring semester, four fourth-year students were chosen to give sermons in chapel. These students represented what our seminary was attempting to produce. Back then, the sermons chosen would
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Kalwinizm ma pudełko dla tajemniczych wersetów

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Siedziałem w samolocie i czekałem na start z Dallas-Fort Worth do Orlando na naszą regionalną konferencję 8-9 czerwca na temat „Czy kalwinizm jest biblijny?”. Wyciągnąłem mój harmonogram konferencji i przeglądałem go. Następnie zacząłem przeglądać przesłanie, które miałem wygłosić tamtego wieczoru. Wtedy stało się coś niezwykłego. Bardzo rzadko zdarza się, że nieznajomy siedzący obok mnie w
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Did You Know That Date-Setting for Christ’s Return Has a Long History? 

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In preparation for a breakout session at our 2025 annual conference, I read a book called Dispensationalism Before Darby. The author, Watson, showed that the components of dispensationalism had been taught by British theologians for at least two hundred years before Darby. Something that jumped out at me in Watson’s book was a chart listing
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Were Old Testament Believers Motivated by Eternal Rewards? 

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Did Adam and Eve know about the doctrine of eternal rewards? What about subsequent generations? Enoch (generation seven)? Abraham (generation twenty)? Moses (generation twenty-six)? King David (generation thirty-four)? Various words are used in the OT to refer to the idea of rewards: reward, recompense, reap, and judgment are four of the most prominent. While it
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