June 16, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
Pee-Ew

“Pee-ew!” my four year old daughter exclaimed, dramatically waving her hand in front of her nose. “Daddy, the sandbox really stinks. The cats pooped in it a LOT!” “But, haven’t […]

June 13, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
Do Piper, Schreiner and the New Calvinists actually believe what Jesus promises?

A reader alerted us to this quote from John Piper. It appears in the Foreword to Thomas Schreiner’s Faith Alone: The Doctrine of Justification (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2015). As […]

June 6, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
Abraham believed

When was Abraham justified before God? We don’t know when Abraham first came to believe in God, or when the Lord first spoke to him. We do know that Abraham […]

June 2, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
John 5_24

“Umm, we need to talk….” Those are words no one wants to hear. Whether it’s your spouse, your boss, your teacher, or a friend, from the moment you hear those […]

By Shawn Lazar {This is Chapter 3 from the new book Beyond Doubt: How to Be Sure of Your Salvation} My college roommate had a talent for card tricks. It […]

May 23, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
an easy way to share

I was flying back from Portland when I tried an easy way to evangelize, taught to me by good friend, Dr. Steve Lewis, President of Rocky Mountain Seminary. Here’s how […]

Godman

Is it a contradiction to say that Jesus is both 100% God and 100% man? I was talking to a fellow believer who said it was a contradiction, but that […]

Isaiah 6.9

A psychologist friend recently came back from a missions trip to Muslim Africa. He said he used the “paradoxical intervention technique” while evangelizing and found it worked. It went something […]

May 11, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
people just can’t seem to wrap their minds around the simplicity of the saving message

My wife and I like to try different diets for our health. I need to lose weight. She has Hashimoto’s and experiments to see how food affects her energy levels. […]

May 3, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
FG

I was recently sent this article, “Easy Like Friday Afternoon: A Manifesto on Hard-Believism” by Jared C. Wilson. He rejects “easy believism” for “hard believism.” What self-professing “easy-believists” think is […]

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