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Making an Impact

April 10, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - 2 Pet 3:11, 2 Tim 2:12., Eternal Rewards, Luke 19:15-19, reigning, reigning with Christ, Rev 10:4, Rev 21:1-5, rewards, Rom 8:17

I recently saw a poster with an Apple Watch on it. It was not an advertisement. Instead, it showed the different small components of the watch, along with a quote from the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs. He said, “We are here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else are we here?”

Is Free Grace Salvation Actually “No-lordship”?

April 9, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - easy believism, Free Grace Theology, John MacArthur, Lordship Salvation

Lordship Salvation advocates do not call the theology of Zane Hodges, GES, and others in our movement, Free Grace Theology. They have coined a name that they believe better captures our view. They call our view “easy-believism”i or “no-lordship.” In this blog, I will consider the latter label. The label “no-lordship” occurs, for example, in

Free Grace and Spanish Speakers

April 8, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - Missions, Spanish, Spanish Ministry

I just returned from a conference that GES took part in in a place called Zozutla, Mexico. Marino Martinez headed up the conference and invited me to be a part of it. The conference was on the Judgment Seat of Christ and rewards in the coming kingdom. The conference lasted three days. I thought I

How and Why Does God Discipline Believers?

April 7, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Blessing and cursing, discipline, divine discipline, Proverbs 13:24

Brad asks a very simple question: “How and why does God discipline believers today?” Why does God discipline believers? The answer is simple. He does so because He loves us. Proverbs 13:24 says, He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly God is our heavenly Father. He

Why Is Walking According to the Flesh Bad for You?

April 4, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Flesh, The Christian walk, Walking, Walking in Darkness

In a recent blog (see here), I discussed various Biblical expressions concerning ways of walking that are pleasing to the Lord. In this blog, we will consider the ways of walking that are displeasing to Him. Here are expressions of the ways of walking that are inconsistent with the believer’s exalted status as a child

The Church Is Not Israel (Luke 9:1-6)

April 3, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - Church, Dispensationalism, Israel, Kingdom, Kingdom Gospel, Luke 9:1-6

There are fewer dispensationalists today than in years past. Among other things, dispensationalists believe that there is a difference between Israel and the church. However, most Bible teachers say that the church is the new Israel or that the church has replaced Israel. Those who say that the church is not Israel are often held

What Is a Sanctified Walk?

April 2, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - The Christian walk, Walk, Walk in Light, Walking

I like walking. In 1998 I gave up running and switched to racewalking. Since then, I have completed a dozen marathons (26.2 miles). This past weekend, I completed a virtual half marathon. That is, I walked 13.1 miles, but by myself in my own neighborhood. I like to walk with people. That is why I

Our Upside-Down World

April 1, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - 2 Pet 2:19, Gen 3:4, morality, Nietzsche, Rom 6:22

Occasionally, I hear people speak of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who lived in the late 1800s. He was famous for the “God is dead” movement. At first, I thought Nietzsche was teaching that God had literally died, which is a strange concept. I later learned he actually meant that any morality associated with the

Many Evangelicals Need Everlasting Life

March 31, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Assurance, Assurance of Salvation, Salvation

I remember a call I got about ten or fifteen years ago from my late friend Bob Swift. I had said in a magazine article that ninety to ninety-five percent of all professing Christians are not born again. I based that on the fact that well fewer than one in ten church people indicate that

What Is a Spiritual Believer?

March 28, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 1 Corinthians 2:14-16, carnal believers, Christian spirituality, pneumatikoi, Spiritual, Spiritual Christians

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For “who has known the mind of the LORD