Regeneration: A New Covenant Blessing
The Moralistic Wrath-Dodger Romans 2:1–5
The Final Judgment
In John’s well-known description of the Final Judgment in Revelation 20:11-14, we do not even find a reference to sins, much less a reference to unforgiven sins. Instead, we are told, “the dead were judged acording to their works, by the things which were written in the books” (Rev 20:12; italics added). To be sure,
How to Lead People to Christ, Part 2: Our Invitation to Respond
How to Lead People to Christ: Part 1 – The Content of Our Message
The title of my two-part article may lead you to expect a discussion on how to do personal evangelism. Hopefully you will get some ideas about personal work from these articles, but this is not my major objective. Instead I want to discuss how grace theology should affect the way we present the gospel, whether
How to Lead People to Christ, Part 1: The Content of Our Message
Confession and Fellowship with God
Confession of sins is a vital element in the Christian’s walk with God. And no verse is more important in this regard than 1 John 1:9. In the following article excerpted from his new commentary on 1-3 John, Zane has given us a wonderful explanation of this key verse. Editor. 9If we confess our sins,
Repentance and the Day of the Lord – 2 Peter 3:9
In this series on the doctrine of repentance, we have reached two fundamental conclusions. These are: (1) that repentance is not in any way a condition for eternal salvation; and (2) repentance is the decision to turn from sin to avoid, or bring to an end, God’s temporal judgment. All the statements about repentance by
Unless You Repent You Will Perish: Repentance in Luke 13:1-5
As we have seen in our previous articles on repentance,1 biblical repentance is not a condition for a person’s eternal salvation. Instead it addresses the need that sinners have (whether saved or unsaved) to repair their relationship to God in order to prevent, or to terminate, His temporal judgment on their sins. The prodigal son,