How we live now determines our eternal ability to glorify Christ

In a recent blog I suggested that missed rewards would be missed forever. One person strongly disagreed and commented in response that “rewards are for time, 1000 years, not eternity.” […]

You May Need to Move.

I get weekly phone calls and emails from people seriously hungry for a Free Grace church. They don’t have one in their area, and they suffer for it. Bob and […]

Will be there be shame at the Judgment Seat of Christ_

I received the following email: I understand the deadly consequences of unrepentant sin in this life. But I don’t get the idea of negative consequences at the Judgment Seat of […]

I Hope I Keep Believing

In his book, His Truth: Scripture Truths About Basic Doctrines, Jack Cottrell, an Arminian theologian, wrote on the subject of assurance. He did not give a name for the view […]

Whatever you believe, you believe. No activation required.

Take a look at this moving email I just received: I have believed I was saved for a long time. But it was not until last year that I finally […]

Continuous assurance depends on continuous faith.

Jack Cottrell is an Arminian theologian. If you want to read a serious Arminian, start with him. Cottrell wrote a summary of his beliefs—a short systematic theology—called His Truth: Scriptural […]

Laurie’s approach, though well-intentioned, is based on misinterpretation of Scripture.

On May 18 of this year, Greg Laurie posted a blog entitled “Close, But Not Close Enough.” You can read his blog here. A reader of our blog asked what […]

Salvation requires a moment of faith, not continuous faith.

Jack Cottrell is an Arminian writer and theologian. He writes from within the Stone-Campbell tradition. If you’d like to read an Arminian who believes in inerrancy and tries to be […]

Give Paige Patterson a Fair Hearing

Paige Patterson was recently demoted, then fired, as President of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. There was intense one-sided coverage, followed by a quick decision by SWBTS. Personally, I’m always suspicious […]

June 5, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Good, James, Sin
What good haven’t you done_

The idea that James teaches the necessity of good works to be eternally saved comes up against a very strong objection: James says that absolutely no one is qualified to […]

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