November 8, 2018 by Bob Wilkin in Blog
What Did John Piper Mean When He Said, “You Can Believe the Promises of God and Be Lost”_

A friend pointed me to a May 27, 2015, blog post by Dr. John Piper at desiringgod.org. The title of the post caught my attention: “You Can Believe the Promises […]

November 7, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - evangelism
“We Go to Heaven by Obeying the Ten Commandments”(1)

Don Matzat, a Lutheran pastor of fifty years, tells the following story of teaching a new church the doctrine of justification by faith apart from works: In one parish I […]

November 6, 2018 by Bob Wilkin in Blog
The salvation of 1 Corinthians 5_5 is a potential future salvation, not an actual present salvation.

Here is a good question I just received: I’ve been chewing on 1 Cor. 5:5 for these last days, and I can’t get assurance out of the final words “hand […]

November 5, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Justification
Salvation by works in the Anglican Catechism.

I’ve been reading several Anglican writers recently who I think are Free Grace friendly. For example, did you know that Dallas Seminary was co-founded by an Anglican priest named W. […]

November 2, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
The cross and the presence of God

“The cross reminds us that God is present, especially when it looks like he’s not” (David Zahl, Mockingbird Devotional, p. 62). What does Zahl mean here? When do you feel […]

Taking Romans 10_9-10 Out of Context Results in a False Gospel.

“…that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the […]

October 31, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - good works, Grace
Why do you do good works_(1)

If you preach grace—that God saves you through simple faith in Jesus for eternal life, apart from your works (cf. Gal 2:16)—then why do good? What’s the point of all […]

October 30, 2018 by Bob Wilkin in Blog
Not all believers know God in the experiential sense.

Here is another good question I received: In an article on your page concerning 1 John 2:3-11, you make the following statement: “When John speaks of knowing Christ, he is […]

October 29, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Sanctification
Should you belong to a particular teacher_

I was reading the Mockingbird Devotional for October 11. The devotion was written by Curt Benham, an Anglican priest in Atlanta. I got to meet him at a Mockingbird conference […]

October 26, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Galatians, Grace
Are your relationships based on Law or based on Grace_

It is a universal fact of human nature that we all want to love and be loved. We all want to belong. But how will we do it? By law […]

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