If your life is not

Recently, a pastor friend sent me a blog with an interesting title, “10 Flavors of Works-Based Salvation.” It is by Pastor Ed Moore of North Shore Baptist Church in Bayside, […]

If you listen seeking to find pearls, you are likely to find pearls.

While having lunch with a GES friend, Brad, he expressed a widespread problem. How do we get the most out of sermons we hear? Brad is a solid Free Grace […]

What would it mean to do the works that Abraham did

J. G. asks a great question: I’m really struggling to understand John 8:39: “If you were really Abraham’s children, you would do the works Abraham did.” How would you take […]

April 19, 2022 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - cats, Prayer
Prayers for Cat People

My wife and I are cat people. It started by accident. A family of stray cats was living under our fourplex in Baton Rouge. When Hurricane Gustav flooded our street, […]

Three Days That Changed the World (John 1928–2031)

On Friday we celebrate the cross of Christ. On Sunday we celebrate His resurrection. The Apostle John makes much of these three days in his Gospel. John stresses the fact […]

April 15, 2022 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - cross, Good Friday, Jesus, Psalm 22
Seeing Good Friday with Your Eyes and Your Eyes of Faith

If you had witnessed the Romans crucify Jesus, you would not have known the significance of what you saw. You would have seen a Jewish man, among several other men, […]

Christians and Civil Bravery in Hostile Societies

Thomas Kelly (1893-1941) was a Quaker philosopher and writer. Kelly’s son wrote a biography of his father (see here), in which he tells of what happened when Kelly was sent […]

April 13, 2022 by Ken Yates in Blog
A Berean Scribe (Mark 1228-34)

Many Christians are familiar with the Bereans. These were the people Paul preached to on his second missionary journey (Acts 17:11). They were commended by Luke, the writer of the […]

April 11, 2022 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - John 1:12, receiving Christ
Does someone gain everlasting life if He invites Jesus to come into His heart

D. A. writes, Hey Bob, I was a little confused with what you shared regarding receive. It seemed that you were saying that it is a synonym for believe. Yet […]

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People sometimes challenge the claim that you must believe in Jesus for an eternal salvation to be saved by appealing to spiritual experience. They will say, “I know you don’t […]

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