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Soul Talk, Soul Food, and “Soul Salvation”

December 1, 1991 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

This article is the first in a series of articles I plan to do on the topic of the soul and salvation. This subject is important because there are a number of so-called problem texts which refer to the saving of one’s soul. Those passages cannot be properly understood without understanding the meaning of “soul

If It’s Free, Why Would Anyone Need to Strive to Enter? – Luke 13:24

November 1, 1991 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. We who believe in the freeness of the Gospel may be uncomfortable with this verse. At least we should be unless we’ve considered carefully what it is saying. After all, if salvation is

Saving Faith and Apostasy: Do Believers Ever Stop Believing?

November 1, 1991 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

Apostasy is a renunciation of one’s faith. It is not strictly a religious term. For example, since Ronald Reagan is a former Democrat, he is an apostate in terms of his former political beliefs. The question is, do genuine Christians ever stop believing in Christ? The answer is, yes. The Scriptures give a number of

The So-Called So-Called Brother – 1 Corinthians 5:11

October 1, 1991 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he should be an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler–not even to eat with such a one. (NASV) But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with

Home Coming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child

Posted in Book Reviews

Home Coming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child.By John Bradshaw. New York: Bantam Books, 1990. 288 pp. Cloth, $18.95. This is not a Christian book. However, it is a book being read by many Christians and which certainly presents itself as a spiritual book. For these reasons, I believe it deserves a review. As one

Christians Who Lose Their Legacy – Galatians 5:21

September 1, 1991 by Bob Wilkin in Journal Articles

I. Introduction On three occasions (1 Cor 6:9-11, Gal 5:19-21, and Eph 5:5-7) the Apostle Paul listed various vices and then said that people who live like that “will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:19-21 has been selected as the representative text for this study. It reads: Now the works of the flesh

A Great Buy! – Matthew 13:44

September 1, 1991 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.(Matt 13:44) Have you ever made a great buy–something you were delighted to obtain? It feels great to buy something you

Receiving is Believing

September 1, 1991 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

A common evangelistic appeal today is: “Receive Christ and you will be saved.” While that appeal is commonly used, it is very uncommon in Scripture! Only one passage refers to “receiving Christ” as a condition of eternal life. yet there are over a hundred which refer to believing in Him as the one and only

Don’t Ask!

August 1, 1991 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

I began to share my faith regularly shortly after I became a Christian during my third year in college. For about a year, whenever I got to the invitation, I would challenge people to ask Jesus into their hearts to be saved. Odd things began to happen. These things forced me back to the Scriptures

Raised To Run – Philippians 3:11

August 1, 1991 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

“That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if by any means, I may attain to the resurrection of the dead. Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on . . . I press on