July 8, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Believe, Faith, propositional
Twelve Theses on Belief

Question What is the Free Grace definition of belief? Also, what is “intellectual consent,” and is it more than a belief in a historical Jesus? I would like to understand. […]

Stepping down from the pastorate.

This past Sunday, I announced I was stepping down from pastoring the contemporary service at Gateway United Baptist Church. I started serving as an experiment. It was an experiment for […]

If all doesn’t always mean all, then how can we know when it does_ (1)

A friend asked this insightful question: You mentioned recently on a podcast that the word all does not always mean all in the New Testament. That seems to fit your […]

July 3, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Job, Suffering
Suffering taught Job.

Job’s three friends had a very legalistic view of the world and of God. They thought everything worked according to a clear and simple law of moral cause and effect—of […]

July 2, 2019 by Ken Yates in Blog - demons, fasting, Prayer
Are there some demons stronger than others_

I have always found Mark 9:29 to be a strange and hard to understand verse. A man has brought his son who has a demon that caused the young boy […]

Did the disciples receive the Spirit at Pentecost, or seven weeks earlier_

A friend just sent in this super question: I just finished listening to your podcast about repentance and baptism for the forgiveness of sins and had a question about when […]

Pentecost on Eternal Security

Here is a great quote from J. Dwight Pentecost, writing in 1965, on why the promise of eternal life implies eternal security: The promise of God is a basis for […]

Is it important to insist on studying the context of a verse_

One of the emphases of Free Grace Theology is its insistence on looking at the context of a verse when we study it. Hopefully, we challenge ourselves and others by […]

June 26, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - journal, Salvation, Soteriology
J. Dwight Pentecost on the Simplicity of Salvation

I’m writing a journal article on what Dallas Theological Seminary professors taught about salvation to the general public, from 1965-1995. I’m looking at books by DTS professors, aimed at a […]

Is the Bible the word of God in a secondary sense_

A friend asked me what I thought about pastor Brian Zahnd and his book Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God. I had not heard of him or the […]

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