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Why Is Walking According to the Flesh Bad for You?

April 4, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Flesh, The Christian walk, Walking, Walking in Darkness

In a recent blog (see here), I discussed various Biblical expressions concerning ways of walking that are pleasing to the Lord. In this blog, we will consider the ways of walking that are displeasing to Him. Here are expressions of the ways of walking that are inconsistent with the believer’s exalted status as a child

The Church Is Not Israel (Luke 9:1-6)

April 3, 2025 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Church, Dispensationalism, Israel, Kingdom, Kingdom Gospel, Luke 9:1-6

There are fewer dispensationalists today than in years past. Among other things, dispensationalists believe that there is a difference between Israel and the church. However, most Bible teachers say that the church is the new Israel or that the church has replaced Israel. Those who say that the church is not Israel are often held

What Is a Sanctified Walk?

April 2, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - The Christian walk, Walk, Walk in Light, Walking

I like walking. In 1998 I gave up running and switched to racewalking. Since then, I have completed a dozen marathons (26.2 miles). This past weekend, I completed a virtual half marathon. That is, I walked 13.1 miles, but by myself in my own neighborhood. I like to walk with people. That is why I

Our Upside-Down World

April 1, 2025 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - 2 Pet 2:19, Gen 3:4, morality, Nietzsche, Rom 6:22

Occasionally, I hear people speak of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who lived in the late 1800s. He was famous for the “God is dead” movement. At first, I thought Nietzsche was teaching that God had literally died, which is a strange concept. I later learned he actually meant that any morality associated with the

Many Evangelicals Need Everlasting Life

March 31, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Assurance, Assurance of Salvation, Salvation

I remember a call I got about ten or fifteen years ago from my late friend Bob Swift. I had said in a magazine article that ninety to ninety-five percent of all professing Christians are not born again. I based that on the fact that well fewer than one in ten church people indicate that

What Is a Spiritual Believer?

March 28, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 1 Corinthians 2:14-16, carnal believers, Christian spirituality, pneumatikoi, Spiritual, Spiritual Christians

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For “who has known the mind of the LORD

At the Feet of Jesus

March 27, 2025 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Feet, Fellowship, Luke 8:35, Luke 8:35-47

In Luke 7–8, the Lord has encounters with various people. I noticed that many of these encounters share a recurring theme: The people find themselves at the feet of Christ. In Luke 7:38, a “sinful” woman interrupts a dinner to wash the Lord’s feet with her tears and dry them with her hair. She anoints

What Is a Carnal Believer?

March 26, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 1 Corinthians 3:1-4, Baby Christians, carnal, carnal believers, The Flesh

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal. For

Making a Fashion Statement (1 Peter 2:1)

March 25, 2025 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - 1 Pet 1:15-22, 1 Pet 2:1, Sanctification

If there is one thing my friends and family know about me, it would probably be that I am not fashion conscious. There are a number of reasons for that. First, I am a guy. Usually, guys get their sense of fashion from their mothers. But my mom was not a typical woman in this

The Jews of Jesus’ Day Were Seeking Everlasting Life – John 5:39-40 Reconsidered

March 24, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Everlasting Life, Everlasting life in the Old Testament, John 5:39-40, Old Testament Believers

You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. John 5:39-40 Vince Deegan, a friend of mine, alerted me to the power of John 5:39-40 about twenty years ago when