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Spiritual Gifts: What They Are & Why They Matter

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Spiritual Gifts: What They Are & Why They Matter. By Thomas R. Schreiner. Nashville, TN: B&H Publishing Group, 2018. 172 pp. Paper, $16.99. This book is very irenic in nature. Thomas Schreiner says that the issue of spiritual gifts is not a “first-order” doctrine (p. 2). Devout Christians can have different opinions. He was at

Muslim Conversions to Christ: A Critique of Insider Movements in Islamic Contexts

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Muslim Conversions to Christ: A Critique of Insider Movements in Islamic Contexts. Edited by Ayman S. Ibrahim and Ant Greenham. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2018. 532 pp. Hardcover, $77.17. Ibrahim was raised in Egypt and is a professor of Islamic studies at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Greenham is a professor of missions and Islamic

Jeremiah and the Tickling of Ears (Jeremiah 42)

August 26, 2019 by Kenneth Yates in Blog

We are all familiar with Paul’s warning to Timothy that the time would come when the believers Timothy is serving will want their ears tickled (2 Tim 4:3). In other words, they will want to be told what they want to hear. We are all prone to that problem. We don’t like it when the

Cataracts and Zambia (2 Corinthians 4:4)

August 19, 2019 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - physical sight, spiritual sight, Zambia

From July 11-25 my daughter Kathryn and I were in Zambia to teach the doctrine of Salvation and the book of Romans to two classes at a Bible college. We had a total of 45 students in the two classes. At the same time, at the school medical clinic, two visiting doctors from the US

An Old Testament Illustration of the Christian Life (2 Chronicles 12:8)

July 23, 2019 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - 2 Chronicles 12, OT illustration, Pharaoh, Romans 6-8

In Romans 6–8, Paul has a lengthy discussion on the Christian life. The believer can walk by the flesh (in his own power) or by the Spirit. The former results in the wrath of God and the deadly consequences of sin. The latter results in life and peace. Paul compares the way a believer lives

No Excuse, Sir! (1 John 4:20–5:5)

July 15, 2019 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - 1 John, child of God, commandment, love

I attended a military college after high school. The freshman year introduced us to military life and placed upon us many rules that a civilian would consider strange. For example, if an upperclassman asked you “why” you were doing something, the answer was always, “no excuse, sir!” It didn’t matter if you had a valid

Did Jesus Support the Ecumenical Movement? (Mark 9:40)

July 9, 2019 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - against the Lord, Discipleship, Ecumenicalism, rewards

When I was an army chaplain, there were many who pushed for ecumenical understanding. This meant that doctrinal differences should not keep us from working and ministering together. We should not let denominational differences keep us from doing the work of the Lord. Sometimes Mark 9:40 was used to support this notion. Jesus is talking

Demons, Prayer, and Fasting (Mark 9:29)

July 2, 2019 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - demons, fasting, Prayer

I have always found Mark 9:29 to be a strange and hard to understand verse. A man has brought his son who has a demon that caused the young boy to be deaf and dumb and tried to destroy him. Jesus cast the demon out. The disciples had tried to cast the demon out before

The Glory of the Lord (Mark 9:2-3)

July 1, 2019 by Kenneth Yates in Grace in Focus Articles

By Ken Yates One of the exciting things about studying the Bible is that no matter how long we have been studying it, we can always learn something new. We have all studied a passage we have examined many times before and see something in it for the first time. I had such an experience

Is Context Really That Important? (Matt 24:14)

June 27, 2019 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Matt 24:14, Olivet Discourse, Rapture, Tribulation

One of the emphases of Free Grace Theology is its insistence on looking at the context of a verse when we study it. Hopefully, we challenge ourselves and others by the light that the context sheds on the verse. As a result, we often find ourselves changing views we previously held and invite others to