When I was in my late twenties I read articles and books on finances and investing. Most of the authors pointed out that if you could save just $2,000 per year for 10 years when you were 25 and then add nothing to it you’d have more money at age 65 than if you saved

The year was 1989. I had just finished presenting a paper on repentance at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in San Diego, CA. I was near the end of the question and answer time. There were several professors and pastors from John MacArthur’s school and church in my session. One of them

by Bob Wilkin The word tradition does not have favorable connotations in the New Testament. While Free Grace people can see the flaws in the Calvinist and Arminian traditions, we tend to be blind to the flaws in our own flavor of Free Grace Theology (FGT). We all must be like the Bereans of Acts

by Bob Wilkin Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to

by Bob Wilkin In our postmodern culture it has become increasingly popular to speak of faith in Christ as having had a personal encounter with Him. Many pastors and theologians say that faith is personal, not propositional. What does a personal encounter with Jesus feel like? That is the issue in assurance for many so-called

Why “He will save His people from their sins” doesn’t mean what most Christians think by Bob Wilkin “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” Most pastors and authors suggest that what an angel told Joseph concerned the spiritual

by Bob Wilkin, originally published in the March-April 2003 Newsletter of the Grace Evangelical Society In June of last year something odd happened in Loxley, Alabama. Pastor Orlando Bethel was preaching a funeral for a man who had died of prostate cancer. Pastor Bethel had a tough task, for the man who died had not