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The Current Crisis in Assurance: An Interview with Prof. David J. Engelsma

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by Shawn Lazar, originally published in the November/December, 2014 issue of Grace in Focus. The original article may be accessed here. Doubt. For some of us, it is momentary feeling of anxiety that eventually passes when our circumstances change. For others, it is a way of life born out of the barrage of insecurities created
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God Rewards those Who Seek Him

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One of the things that I have really appreciated about the Free Grace movement in general, and GES in particular, is how they have challenged all of us to look at the Scriptures and let the Scriptures speak for themselves. This often causes us to reconsider some of our traditional understanding of what certain verses
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Counting our Days, Psalm 90

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by Bob Wilkin Did you know that Moses wrote a Psalm? Most of the Psalms were written by David around 1000 BC. But Moses wrote a Psalm four centuries before that. In Psalm 90, a psalm by Moses, he says, “The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they
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The Birth Pains of GES

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by Bob Wilkin In hindsight I could see the hand of the Lord in what happened. But when it was all happening, I seemed to be struggling through these things all on my own. On January 1, 1985, Sharon and I flew back from a week’s vacation in Arkansas. We were picked up by the
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Revisiting the Lord’s Prayer

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We are all familiar with the Lord’s Prayer. When I was in the military it was used a great deal in the chapel services. Part of the reason, no doubt, is that some of the soldiers and family members came from more liturgical church backgrounds than people like myself. They were very comfortable reciting it.
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Are you a slave to sin?

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by Ken Yates As I write this, our country is about to celebrate another July 4th, another Independence Day. That is the day that our nation declared its independence from England in the late 1700’s. England had imposed its will upon the early American colonies and the colonies longed to be free to determine their
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Righteousness Will Dwell, Psalm 10

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by Ken Yates The book of Psalms expresses the deep emotions and experiences of God’s people throughout the centuries. Recently I read Psalm 10. Most believe it was written about 3000 years ago by David. However, while reading it I had the feeling that it could be written by a Christian today. In the first
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What If It Doesn’t Work?

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by Zane Hodges, originally published in the November, 1989 edition of Grace in Focus Quite a few years ago I was giving the gospel to a young Hispanic man. After a while he said: “It’s no use, Zane. Another preacher saved me, and it didn’t work.” I admit this response caught me by surprise. Still,
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Repentance and the Day of the Lord, 2 Peter 3:9

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by Zane Hodges, originally published in the September-October, 1999 issue of “Grace in Focus” In this series on the doctrine of repentance, we have reached two fundamental conclusions. These are: (1) that repentance is not in any way a condition for eternal salvation; and (2) repentance is the decision to turn from sin to avoid,
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