June 11, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - genie, God, Job, Worship
Do you have a God or a genie_

Job. He was the ideal man— righteous, upright, fearing God, shunning evil, and so concerned with holiness that he made sacrifices for sins that might have been committed by other […]

June 7, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - bible, Job, Suffering
Job and Dramatic Irony

Have you ever seen a performance of Romeo and Juliet? Near the end of the play, Juliet takes a drug that induces a temporary, but deathlike, sleep, to avoid marrying […]

Don’t Bother With Atheists_

I love apologetics. I started witnessing a couple of months after I became a Christian at the age of seventeen. The first group I went to was the local Muslim […]

May 20, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog

Here are most of the power-points for the GES National Conference 2019 Bond_GES – Eph. 6 Faul_God’s Wisdom for Marriages Ken Yates Plenary GES 2019 Eph 1 Kenny Hodges Ephesians […]

The Christ Has the Words of Eternal Life

Some people say we must believe that Jesus is the Christ, without necessarily believing in Him for eternal life or any other kind of salvation. By contrast, we argue that […]

Christians Living Differently

I’ve been thinking a great deal about the doctrine of “separation.” It was, and may still be, a defining feature of the Fundamentalist movement. Sadly, I think that doctrine often […]

May 14, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Asa Mahan, Assurance
Are you assured about what you will do for God, or about what God will do for you_

Asa Mahan (1799-1889) was an Arminian philosopher and theologian. He was Presbyterian, but at a time when many Presbyterians were becoming Arminian (following the so-called “New Haven Theology”). Mahan was […]

May 10, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Ephesians, love
Love differently.

Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children. Walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us as a fragrant offering and a sacrifice to God. And […]

May 8, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - atonement, cross
Atonement Debates Are Too Limited

Calvinists and Arminians debate whether the atonement is limited or unlimited. My question is—what if that’s a false dichotomy? The big assumption made by both Calvinists and Arminians is that […]

Salvation is an enduring reality.

I came across this quote from Lewis Sperry Chafer. He contrasts the eternal salvation preached by Jesus with the “transient” salvation believed by Arminians: “The Arminian’s difficulty is initial. To […]

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