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Many Evangelicals Need Everlasting Life

March 31, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Assurance, Assurance of Salvation, Salvation

I remember a call I got about ten or fifteen years ago from my late friend Bob Swift. I had said in a magazine article that ninety to ninety-five percent of all professing Christians are not born again. I based that on the fact that well fewer than one in ten church people indicate that

What Is a Spiritual Believer?

March 28, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 1 Corinthians 2:14-16, carnal believers, Christian spirituality, pneumatikoi, Spiritual, Spiritual Christians

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For “who has known the mind of the LORD

At the Feet of Jesus

March 27, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - Feet, Fellowship, Luke 8:35, Luke 8:35-47

In Luke 7–8, the Lord has encounters with various people. I noticed that many of these encounters share a recurring theme: The people find themselves at the feet of Christ. In Luke 7:38, a “sinful” woman interrupts a dinner to wash the Lord’s feet with her tears and dry them with her hair. She anoints

What Is a Carnal Believer?

March 26, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 1 Corinthians 3:1-4, Baby Christians, carnal, carnal believers, The Flesh

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal. For

Making a Fashion Statement (1 Peter 2:1)

March 25, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - 1 Pet 1:15-22, 1 Pet 2:1, Sanctification

If there is one thing my friends and family know about me, it would probably be that I am not fashion conscious. There are a number of reasons for that. First, I am a guy. Usually, guys get their sense of fashion from their mothers. But my mom was not a typical woman in this

The Jews of Jesus’ Day Were Seeking Everlasting Life – John 5:39-40 Reconsidered

March 24, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Everlasting Life, Everlasting life in the Old Testament, John 5:39-40, Old Testament Believers

You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life. John 5:39-40 Vince Deegan, a friend of mine, alerted me to the power of John 5:39-40 about twenty years ago when

Don’t Judge a Crop by Its Stalk

March 21, 2025 by Kathryn Wright in Blog - 31-39, Heb 12:1-3, Isaiah 49:4, Isaiah 50:7, reaping, Rom 8:18, Servant

I once saw a picture of two bunnies standing next to their carrot crops. Beside the bunny to the left, a slight green stalk was coming up from the ground. It was barely a twig, not even reaching the top of the bunny’s ears. He was sad. In contrast, the bunny to the right had

How Often Does the Bible Use the Word Wicked to Refer to the Unregenerate?

March 20, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - John 5:29, Matthew 13:49-40, wicked, wickedness

It is quite common for Evangelicals to understand the expression the wicked as referring to the unsaved. Consider these verses as examples: And Abraham came near and said, “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked?” (Gen 18:23). God is a just judge, and God is angry with the wicked every day (Ps 7:11).

Theological Prison

March 19, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - Calvinism, Election, John 3:16, Lordship Salvation, Perseverance of the Saints

Most of us have met people who are prisoners in a theological prison. Calvinists believe that God chose those who would be in His kingdom before they were born. If you were chosen, you are good to go. If you weren’t, you will spend eternity in the lake of fire. Calvinists and Lordship Salvation adherents

What about the Good Tree Bearing Good Fruit and the Bad Tree Bearing Bad Fruit?

March 18, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - ” “You will know them by their fruits”, False Prophets, false teachers, Fruits, Matthew 7:15-23

Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Matthew 7:17-18 Clearly, the Lord was not saying that believers produce only good fruit and unbelievers produce only bad fruit. We know that those who