Blog – Grace Evangelical Society

Three False Calvinist Assumptions

July 10, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Calvinism, Faith, Grace, work

I was explaining Free Grace theology to a Calvinist when, to my surprise, he claimed that I really believed in salvation by works! That’s not something I’ve ever been accused of before, so I was curious why he thought that. During our conversation, it became clear to me that he was making three big assumptions

God Allows Confusion to Exist Regarding the Saving Message

July 9, 2020 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Assurance of Salvation, Interpretation, Lordship Salvation

A friend, Paul, wondered at a comment I made that I use commentaries by people who hold to Lordship Salvation: I was reading your most recent blog Recommended Bible Study Tools, and at the conclusion of listing several lexicons, concordances, Bible dictionaries and commentaries, you indicated that many of these resources do not come from

Jesus Is Not the Father

July 8, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Trinity

I recently heard a worship leader, in a moment of extemporaneous prayer, say, “Jesus is the Father and the Spirit and the Son!” I’m going to chalk that little bit of heresy to (1) the leader being young; (2) theological education being low both within and without the churches; and (3) the teaching of Trinitarian

Coronavirus and a Left Turn (Acts 16:6-8)

July 7, 2020 by Kenneth Yates in Blog

The novel coronavirus has been a colossal pain for just about everybody. It has caused all of us to change our plans. This is also true when it comes to how we want and plan to serve the Lord. In my case, I had plans this summer to teach Bible courses in a couple of

Three Differences Between Jesus and the Grim Reaper

July 6, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Death, Grim Reaper

You’ve seen cartoons of the Grim Reaper, haven’t you? Artists depict his skeletal figure as clad in a black hooded cloak, carrying a scythe, waiting to reap his next victim (for the history of the figure see here). If you read the news, the Grim Reaper is all over the headlines. There are riots and

New Testament Commentaries I Recommend

July 3, 2020 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Commentaries on the New Testament

Leon Morris. The Gospel According to Matthew. Eerdmans. 781 pages. R. T. France. Matthew. Tyndale Series. 416 pages. Alfred Plummer. The Gospel According to St. Mark. 392 pages. Vincent Taylor. The Gospel According to St. Mark. Second Edition. 696 pages. Kenneth E. Bailey. Poet & Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes: A Literary-Cultural Approach to the

Old Testament Commentaries I Recommend

July 2, 2020 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Hermeneutics, Old Testament Commentaries

Derek Kidner. Genesis. Tyndale Series. 224 pages. Allen P. Ross. Genesis. R. Alan Cole. Exodus. Tyndale Series. 239 pages. Allen P. Ross. Leviticus. Gordon J. Wenham. Numbers. Tyndale Series. 240 pages. Walter Riggans. Numbers. The Daily Study Bible Series. 251 pages. Peter C. Craigie. Deuteronomy. NICOT. 424 pages. J. A. Thompson. Deuteronomy. Tyndale Series. 320

Feelings Are A Bad Reason to Be Mormon

July 1, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - apologetics, Mormon

I recently asked a Mormon for three evidences that would convince any fair-minded person that his religion is true. He said, “The same as Oliver Cowdery’s: ‘Did I not speak peace to your mind concerning the matter? What greater witness can you have than from God?’” That is a quote from Doctrine and Covenants 6:23.

Recommended Bible Study Tools

June 30, 2020 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Bible Concordances, Bible Dictionaries, Bible Lexicons, commentaries, Systematic Theologies

Here’s another good question: I respect your Biblically centered scholarship and theological astuteness, and I would like your advice. As a student of Free Grace Theology can you recommend for me what study tools to use to make my study efforts more effective and productive? For example, what lexicons, concordance, Bible dictionary, systematic theology books,

Turn Away! (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

June 29, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - 2 Timothy, Biblical separation, last days

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness