by Bob Wilkin and Zane Hodges, originally published in the Jan/Feb 2015 edition of Grace in Focus Question: Doesn’t Matthew 7:15-20 teach that all believers will inevitably have some good fruit in their lives? Does the evidence of good works in a person’s life prove they are saved? Bob Wilkin (BW): The saying, “You will

The year was 1989. I had just finished presenting a paper on repentance at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in San Diego, CA. I was near the end of the question and answer time. There were several professors and pastors from John MacArthur’s school and church in my session. One of them

by Ken Yates Recently, I undertook the task of learning Spanish. When we study another language we soon learn that other folks use phrases that do not make sense to us. Sometimes we see these phrases and think we know what they mean, but then realize that they mean something completely different. For example, I

by Shawn Lazar I grew up reading comic books. I collected them. I went to conventions. My best friend Dennis and I would have competitions drawing our favorite heroes—his was Spider-Man, and mine was Iron Man. There was a time when I even aspired to be a professional comic artist. But in my late teens

by Brad Bell Robert Chapman was a 19th century pastor/elder of an assembly of believers in Barnstable, England. He was widely respected by men including Spurgeon, Darby, and Müller. Believers are called to live pleasing to God. But some are too quick to think they have achieved sinless perfection, or something close to it. Yet,

by Art Farstad During the hundreds of years in which the notorious Spanish Inquisition was in force to root out and destroy “heresy,” there was a “ceremony” called an auto da fe, which is Portuguese for “act of faith.” In Spain, Portugal, and their New World colonies, Protestants, Jews, and other non-conformists were frequently burned

by Brad Bell The tractor is running. The computer is running. My nose is running. He runs every day. We’ll give him a run for his money. The machine is running. It was a quick run. This is a long run of sentences. The English word run has a large range of meaning. It can

by Shawn Lazar   A popular confusion about the condition of salvation comes from a misreading of John 6, where Jesus says, “If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world…Most assuredly, I say

by Bob Wilkin The word tradition does not have favorable connotations in the New Testament. While Free Grace people can see the flaws in the Calvinist and Arminian traditions, we tend to be blind to the flaws in our own flavor of Free Grace Theology (FGT). We all must be like the Bereans of Acts