God Allows Confusion to Exist Regarding the Saving Message

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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
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Jesus Is Not the Father

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

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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
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Old Testament Commentaries I Recommend

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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
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Feelings Are A Bad Reason to Be Mormon

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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.
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Recommended Bible Study Tools

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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,
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Turn Away! (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

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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
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