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Once Saved, Rarely Saved?

September 1, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

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

Invitations in the Evangelistic Ministries of Jesus and His Apostles

September 1, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

By Bob Wilkin When I was on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC), I was required to file weekly reports on how many students I evangelized, what their response was, and how many students I discipled. I was told if I did not get to the invitation prayer in the Four Spiritual Laws, then

Saving Faith and Intellectual Assent: An Ongoing Debate

September 1, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

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

Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism

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Myths and Mistakes in New Testament Textual Criticism. By Elijah Hixson and Peter J. Gurry, Editors. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2019. 372 pp. Paper, $40.00. While in seminary, I became very interested in NT textual criticism. Initially I held to the eclectic approach, which is basically a Critical Text (CT) approach. Later I became

The Assurance of Salvation: Biblical Hope for Our Struggles

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The Assurance of Salvation: Biblical Hope for Our Struggles. By Robert A. Peterson. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019. 191 pp. Paper, $16.99. Robert Peterson was a Professor of Systematic Theology at Covenant Seminary for over twenty-five years. He has written or edited thirty books. There is much to like about this book. The tone is

Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World

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Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World. By Andy Stanley. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2018. 332 pp. Hardcover, $24.99. Normally when I review books, I am confident that I understand the author’s main point. In the case of Irresistible by Andy Stanley, I am confident I understand at least a few of

A Review of Matthew C. Hoskinson’s Assurance of Salvation: Implications of a New Testament Theology of Hope

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Robert N. Wilkin I. INTRODUCTION There have not been many books written on assurance of salvation. Assurance of Salvation (hereafter AOS) is a revised version of Hoskinson’s 2005 doctoral dissertation at Bob Jones University.1 Most of AOS fails to examine NT texts dealing with assurance of salvation, with Hoskinson focusing primarily on “a New Testament

Do You Know What Time It Is? (Romans 13:11-14)

August 30, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Eschatology, knowing the time, Romans 13:11-14, the eschatological day

The following is a condensed version of a sermon I prepared for Victor Street Bible Chapel in Dallas. “Daddy, are we there yet?” “When will we get there?” Little children do not have much of a sense of time. If you tell them that the GPS says we will get where we are going in

Worship Isn’t What You Think (Mark 15:19)

August 27, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - bowing down, Mark 15:19, Worship

I admit it. My understanding of worship is a bit of pet peeve. It bothers me that many people mistakenly think that singing with gusto is worship. That raising your hands is worship. That listening to a sermon is worship. That swaying to the music is worship. Biblical worship is none of those things. Now

Doctrine Matters

August 21, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 2 Tim 3:16, Acts 20:27, doctrine matters, fundamental doctrines, non-fundamental doctrines, What is doctrine

I received a call from a Free Grace friend. He asked, “What is doctrine?” My immediate response was, “Doctrine is anything that is taught in the Bible.” He went on to say that he distinguished between doctrines and tenets. He called doctrines the ten or so fundamentals: the deity of Christ, the virgin birth, His