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Simon the Magician’s Repentance (Acts 8:24)

April 24, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - Acts 8: 24, Acts 8:13, Samaria, Simon

Simon, a sorcerer in Samaria, is a fascinating character in Acts. I don’t think anybody in church history has been maligned as badly as this man. Even though the text says he was a believer, theologians of many stripes have been determined to see him cast into the lake of fire. Even some believing theologians

Who Will Have Children During the Millennium, Since We Cannot?

April 23, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Children in the Kingdom, Isaiah 65:20, Millennial kingdom

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven (Matt 22:30). Church-age believers will be glorified before the Millennium (1 Thess 4:16-17). We will not have any children after this life is over. The same is true of all the OT believers who have

The Cure for Man’s Depravity (Rom 1:28)

April 22, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - depravity, Deut 12:30-31, Deut 18:10, Jer 32:35, Lev 18:21, Lev 20:3, Rev 22:20, righteousness, Rom 1:28

I recently visited the Mexican city of Cholula. In the US, we know it as the place where we get bottles of hot sauce for our food. It is also famous because of its Aztec ruins. I visited those ruins, which include an altar where archaeologists believe children were sacrificed because of some small skulls

What Is Dispensationalism? Part 3

April 21, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - carnal believers, Christ’s return, Dispensationalism

Gentry and Johnson have an online article titled, “Ninety-five Theses Against Dispensationalism.” See here. I have selected three that I will touch on here and speak on at our conference, May 19-22. Dispensationalism is new and is inconsistent with Christian scholarship (Thesis 1). Imminency is contradicted by Matt 25:1-9, Luke 19:13, & Acts 1:6-7 (Thesis

Does the Triumphal Entry Point to Resurrection Sunday?

April 18, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Easter, Palm Sunday, Resurrection Sunday, Triumphal Entry, Zechariah 9:9-10

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey (Zech 9:9). Zechariah 9:9 is a famous prophecy about Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. We call this Palm

Moving in the Right Direction (Mark 12:34)

April 17, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - 1 Cor 3:10-15, Eternal Rewards, Heb 11:26, Mark 12:34, rewards, Rom 14:12

When I was studying Spanish, I would listen to sermons in Spanish from a church in Mexico called Casa de Oración (“House of Prayer”). The pastor spoke distinctly, which helped me understand the language. He was an Arminian, believing a believer could lose eternal salvation. Sometimes he said that if a Christian continues in sin,

What Is Dispensationalism? Part 2

April 16, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Dispensationalism, Dispensations, Law of Moses, Laws

Even non-dispensationalists recognize that the commands of the NT are not the same as the commands under the Law of Moses and that the commands before the Law of Moses were different still. Scofield, in his study Bible, suggested that there are seven total dispensations, with one of those, which he called kingdom, being future.

A Prisoner of Spiritual Warfare

April 15, 2025 by Kathryn Wright in Blog - 2 Tim 2:3-4, Matt 25:24-29, Phil 1:21-22, Spiritual Warfare.

During the Vietnam War, a Navy Petty Officer Doug Hegdahl accidentally fell off his ship on April 6th, 1967 and was taken captive by the North Vietnamese. He was held as a prisoner of war (POW) at the Hanoi Hilton, a Vietnamese prison notorious for its brutality and poor living conditions. His seemingly absurd story

What Is Dispensationalism? Part 1

April 14, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Dispensationalism, Dispensations, Distinction between Israel and the Church, Hermeneutics

The topic for our May 19-22 annual conference is “Dispensationalism and Eternal Rewards.” Many people do not know what dispensationalism is. The word dispensation occurs in some English translations (KJV, NKJV, ASV, JUB, Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible, TMB, YLT, Wycliffe) in four NT verses (1 Cor 9:17; Eph 1:10; 3:2; Col 1:25). Other translations of those

Is Lordship Salvation a Pejorative Expression?

April 11, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Free Grace, Lordship, Lordship Salvation

Recently I wrote a blog (see here) about whether the label no-lordship is a fair designation of Free Grace Theology. I suggested that it is pejorative since it suggests either that we do not believe in the Lordship of Jesus Christ or we do not proclaim it. Neither is true. That label is not fair.