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Examples of Believers Who Persevered to the End of Their Lives

February 22, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 2 Timothy 2:12, Assurance, Endurance, Perseverance

Last year in Grace in Focus magazine, Marcia Hornok wrote an article about believers in Scripture who lived messy lives. You can read her article here (pp. 35-36). In her conclusion she said, “Anyone who thinks true believers persevere in following God cannot prove it with Biblical examples.” I received an email from a reader

Studying the Real Thing (John 3:16)

February 21, 2019 by Ken Yates in Blog - evangelism, false gospels, Grace

I don’t know if it is true or not, but many years ago I was told that the Treasury Department has a specific way of training agents involved in preventing counterfeit money. They do not train them by showing them different examples of illegal currency. Instead, they spend thousands of hours studying what authentic money

The Free Grace Movement and Sanctification

February 20, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Assurance and Free Grace, Sanctification and Free Grace

Central Seminary, MacDonald Lectures 2019 Pastor Bill Lee (Trego, WI) told me about a conference being held at Central Seminary (officially Central Baptist Theological Seminary) in Minneapolis, MN. They were having a conference on “Issues in Sanctification.” One of the messages was entitled, “The Free Grace Movement and Sanctification.” The speaker, Dr. Jon Pratt, Professor

Preaching Repentance and the Forgiveness of Sins (Luke 24:47)

February 18, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Luke 24:47, Repentance and Salvation, The Great Commission

While trying to clear out my Inbox, I found an email question that needs an answer: Many in my church think repentance of sin is a required part of being born again. How would you explain the words of Jesus after the resurrection in Luke 24:45-47? “And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the

Doing Greater Works Than Jesus Did (John 14:12)

February 15, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Assurance, Greater works than Jesus did, John 14:12

This great question got buried in my Inbox: “Hey GES! I was wondering, in John 14:12, it seems that Christ is saying that work is a direct result of faith. I’m not concerned with the “greater works” part, just the fact that it looks like He’s saying “he who believes WILL do” instead of “should

Taken on Testimony

February 14, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - blood, Faith, Watchman Nee

“On a scale of 1 to 10, how’s your pain?” Often, my kids will come and say they have a headache or a tummy ache, or their throat is sore, or they hurt their knee. I can’t feel their pain, but I can sympathize and guess what it feels like based on my own experiences.

Replacing Everlasting Life with a Relationship with Jesus

February 13, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Eternal Security, evangelism, Everlasting Life, John 3:16, promise of life

Shawn was talking with a friend who takes online seminary classes. The man told Shawn he was a bit reluctant to raise Free Grace issues in his papers for class because the professor gives no indication that he is at all open to Free Grace Theology. Shawn’s friend told him that the professor is also

More Than a Herd of Pigs (Mark 5:1-20)

February 12, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Gerasenes, value

We tack silly cartoons to our office wall. Here’s a recent one we enjoyed: Poor pig. The cartoon is referring to the episode in Mark 5:1-20 in which Jesus visited the land of the Gerasenes and met a man who was demon possessed. Long story short, Jesus cast out the demons who then entered a

Chuck Swindoll Says That People Will Miss Eternity with Christ If They Make Salvation Too Difficult

February 11, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Chuck Swindoll, John 3:14-15, Numbers 21, saving faith, The bronze serpent

A reader told me about a January 7 Insight for Living broadcast in which Chuck Swindoll talks about the time when Moses lifted up the bronze serpent, and those who looked on it were healed of the plague (Numbers 21). I just listened to the section in question, and it is fantastic. You can hear

Grace Is Approachable

February 8, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Grace, Paul Zahl, sinners

I was listening to a podcast by Paul Zahl entitled “A Disease I Do Not Have the Courage to Name.” The title comes from a now out-of-print book entitled My Son Is a Splendid Driver, set during the Great Depression. In it, the protagonist’s mother is given a deadly STD by her husband, a traveling