I want to visit Rome so I can see the art that I’ve admired since I was a kid. I especially loved Michaelangelo. I grew up reading and drawing comic […]

November 2, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Are you saved through fruit? John Piper thinks so: “In final salvation at the last judgment, faith is confirmed by the sanctifying fruit it has borne, and we are saved […]

November 1, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Grace in Focus Articles

A chapter from Chosen to Serve: Why Divine Election Is to Service, Not to Eternal Life. By Shawn Lazar Introduction When theologians write or talk about the decrees of God, […]

November 1, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Grace in Focus Articles

By Shawn Lazar There are two standards for evaluating a logical argument. First, is it true? And second, is it valid? When an argument has true premises and is valid, […]

October 30, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
harvest

Are you aware of the evangelistic opportunities all around you? They may seem few and far between. But are they, really? In John 4, we read about Jesus’ famous conversation […]

October 27, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
Hero

I’m preparing to teach a Sunday School series through Ephesians and Joshua. To that end, I’ve been reading The Christian in Complete Armour by Puritan William Gurnall (1616-1679). Spurgeon said […]

October 26, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
Realism

Jesus did not come to condemn the world. That means He did not come to condemn you. “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the […]

October 24, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
Salvation comes through faith in Christ, apart from the Law.

It turns out I’m a real antinomian. That’s a ten-dollar-word. Antinominian means being “against” (anti) “the law” (nomos). Now, there are different ways of being against the Law, so there […]

October 19, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
There are as many different ways of God drawing people to Christ, as there are people.

People often confuse the one condition of being born again with the many conditions of being a disciple of Jesus. In Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth, C. I. Scofield […]

October 18, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
To ‘quench God’s wrath’ would therefore be the same thing as quenching God’s righteousness.

Did the cross bring an end to the wrath of God? How can God still be angry at sin? After the cross, aren’t we in the clear? Why would believers […]

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