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The Surgeon General Says…

March 4, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - Bema, Eternal Rewards, Mark 2:17, Rom 6:23

I’m old enough to remember when smoking cigarettes was cool. All the beautiful actresses and handsome actors in movies and on TV smoked. It was considered both sexy and elegant. Many of my relatives smoked cigarettes and used other forms of tobacco. I recall commercials in which even doctors promoted certain brands of cigarettes. Some

Brodawki na naszych bohaterach (Marka 14:71)

March 3, 2025 by Ken Yates in Jedynie Wiara, czyli darmowa łaska w centrum uwagi - Marka 14:71, natchnienie, Piotr, zaparcie się

Jeśli chcesz być pod wrażeniem, przeczytaj historię Dietera Denglera, jednego z zaledwie trzydziestu trzech jeńców wojennych, którzy uciekli podczas wojny w Wietnamie. Gwarantuję, że pomyślisz lub nawet powiesz: „Nigdy nie mógłbym zrobić tego, co on”. Jego historia jest legendą, szczególnie wśród tych, którzy służyli w wojsku. Dengler dorastał w Niemczech podczas II wojny światowej i

Must You Recognize That You Are a Sinner in Order to Be Saved?

March 1, 2025 by Ken Yates in Grace in Focus Articles

By Ken Yates Every one of us have heard a gospel presentation that started off like this: “You must recognize that you are a sinner.” I visited a church website recently that described how one could “have a relationship with Jesus Christ.” It said that “it starts with admitting that you are a sinner.” To

The Day of Wrath

March 1, 2025 by Ken Yates in Grace in Focus Articles

By Ken Yates INTRODUCTION In the first two chapters of Romans, Paul speaks of the wrath of God. When they hear that phrase, most Evangelicals assume that it refers to the lake of fire. Unbelievers, it is thought, will be cast into hell and experience God’s wrath forever. Unbelievers will spend eternity in the lake

A Servant Becomes a King

February 27, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - 2 Tim 2:12., Isa 42:1, Kingdom, Mark 10:45, Prov 30:21-23, Reign, Rev 19:16, Servant

Agur, a man of whom we know very little, wrote Proverbs 30. Most students of the Bible will recognize one of the characteristics of his writing. He likes to enumerate several things that have something in common, then up the number by one. Proverbs 30:21-23 is an example. Agur says that there are “three things”

Hearing and Doing: An Opportunity

February 25, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - Discipleship, Luke 8:11-15, Luke 8:21-25, rewards, Works

But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it” (Luke 8:21). In Luke 8:21, the Lord stresses the importance of hearing and doing the wordi of God. Some take this verse as being addressed to unbelievers. They need to hear the

Looking for Good Employees

February 21, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - Fig Tree, Matt 24:45-47, Prov 27:18, Rev 22:12, rewards

I have a lot of respect for people who can start their own businesses. They’re able to take a chance and do something new. It’s like rolling the dice. It’s exciting. But they don’t take the safe route. In this area, I’m the opposite. I’m happy working for somebody who’s already started a profitable business.

The Wages of Sin

February 19, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - Jas 1:13-15, John 3:16; 5:24, Prov 28:1, Proverbs, Rom 6:23

Careful students of the Word of God have pointed out to me the deadly consequences of sin. Most Evangelicals say that sins send a person to the lake of fire. That is not true. A person who is cast into the lake of fire will be there because they did not believe in Jesus for

Second Peter 2:22 Revisited

February 17, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - 1 Kgs 11:1-13, 2 Peter 2:20-22, Backsliding, Christian sin, Prov 26:11

Second Peter 2:22 is often considered a problem text for the Free Grace position. Peter speaks of a person who has the “knowledge” of the Lord and Savior of Jesus Christ. Such a person has “escaped the pollution of the world.” He has lived a righteous life. Is this a description of a believer or

When a Righteous Person Disappoints (2 Tim 4:10)

February 13, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - 2 Pet 2:20-22, 2 Tim 4:10, Demas, Prov 25:25-26, Proverbs

Many people in churches today believe that a true believer cannot fail morally, at least not too badly. If such a person “backslides” for an extended period, it shows he is a false professor, according to their theology. Those who understand the grace of God know that such theology is nonsense. The Bible teaches that