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Seventy-Six Questions

January 20, 2026 by Ken Yates in Blog - Child, Discipleship, John 6:68, Matt 11:29

I recently heard an interesting statistic: Children ages two to five average over seventy-six questions per hour in conversations at home. While some debate that number, most parents of preschoolers would probably say it’s even higher. For example, I was hanging out with my four-year-old grandson recently. Our family was watching a movie, and every ten seconds or so, you could hear his soft voice ask, ‘Why?’ By the

The Righteous Are Scarcely Saved? What Does 1 Peter 4:18 Mean?

January 19, 2026 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Salvation by suffering, the saving of the soul

Now “If the righteous one is scarcely saved, Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?” (1 Peter 4:18). If the righteous will be recompensed on the earth, How much more the ungodly and the sinner (Prov 11:31). Tom Schreiner, a leading Calvinist NT scholar, makes this comment on 1 Pet 4:18: The word molis can mean “scarcely” (Rom 5:7) or “with difficulty”

Does What We Do Impact Us Forever? Part 3

January 16, 2026 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Accountability, degrees of torment, Great White Throne Judgment

In part 1, we saw that the Bible teaches that everyone is judged during this life according to his works. In part 2, we saw that the eternal experience of believers will depend on how their works are evaluated by the Lord at the Judgment Seat of Christ (the Bema). In part 3 we will see that

Throwing a Party in Hell

January 15, 2026 by Ken Yates in Blog

There are many variations of a joke I often heard while in the military. I would talk to a young soldier about eternal life by faith alone in Christ. He would say something like, “I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends will be there. I would rather party in hell with my buddies than be bored in

Does What We Do Impact Us Forever? Part 2

January 14, 2026 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 1 Pet 4:13, 2 Cor 5:10, The Judgment Seat of Christ

In part 1, we saw that the Bible teaches that everyone is judged during this life according to his works. Whether believer or unbeliever, we are all accountable for our actions. We reap what we sow in this life. But what about the life to come? Will the eternal experiences of believers and unbelievers vary depending on their good and

Enslaved Because of Sin

January 13, 2026 by Ken Yates in Blog - Delilah, Flesh, Judg 16:1-3, Samson, spirit

In Rom 6:16, Paul tells the believers at Rome (and believers today) that they are slaves to whatever they obey. While the believer has been set free from the power of sin by the Holy Spirit, he can become a slave to sin if he walks according to the flesh rather than the Spirit. Through

Does What We Do Impact Us Forever? Part 1

January 12, 2026 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - God judges us according to our works

Recently, actor and Christian apologist Kirk Cameron stirred up a lot of controversy when he suggested that annihilationism may be what happens to those who do not come to faith in Christ. Part of his argument was that he thinks it would be unfair of God to punish people forever for a finite number of sins. In his view, a finite number

What’s Wrong with Calvinism? Part 6: Calvinism’s Preservation of the Saints Is Unbiblical

January 9, 2026 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Eternal Security, John 4:13-15, Luke 8:13

For years I thought that Calvinists believed in eternal security and Arminians did not. I thought that the doctrine of eternal security was the heart of Calvinism. As a result, after graduating from seminary I called myself a Calvinist even though I did not believe in Calvinism’s other points. I came to see, however, that most Calvinists do not actually believe in eternal security. Most

Eating with the Angel of the Lord

January 8, 2026 by Ken Yates in Blog - “Angel of the Lord”, 1 John 1:9, Confession, Fellowship, Judg 13:3-21, Repentance, Rev 3:19-20, Samson

The preincarnate Christ often appears in the OT as “the Angel of the Lord.” One of the strangest occurrences of this is found in Judg 13:3-21. The Angel of the Lord appears, as a man, to a barren woman and tells her that she will give birth to a son. (The son is the famous OT character, Samson.) In answer to the prayer of Manoah—the woman’s husband—the Angel of the Lord returns

What’s Wrong with Calvinism? Part 5: Calvinism’s Perseverance of the Saints Is Unbiblical

January 7, 2026 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Eternal Security, John 11:25-27, Revelation 20:11-15

Dr. Tony Badger, author of Confronting Calvinism, says this about the so-called Perseverance of the Saints: Not a single passage of Scripture…demonstrates that one who believes in Christ for eternal life…must perform properly and remain morally and doctrinally pure…until the end of his physical life so as to…prove that he is forever God’s child. Contrarily, the Bible is replete with examples