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What Do We Need to Hold Fast Until Christ Comes?

February 3, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Hold Fast, Overcomers, Revelation 2:25-26

The Lord said in Revelation 2:25-26: “But hold fast what you have till I come. And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations.” These verses are part of the letter to the church of Thyatira. A false teacher named Jezebel was leading some

Fire and Fuel

January 31, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - gossip, James 3:5-6, Prov 26:20-21, strife, tongue

In recent news, we have seen the devastating fires in southern California. I know nothing about forestry, but I understand that two things were needed for this destruction to occur. One was a fire source. From what I’ve heard, various people purposely set the fires, which, though very small, were how the huge, devastating fires

Why Is It Important That Noah’s Flood Was Worldwide?

January 30, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 2 Peter 3:3-7, Noah’s flood, The Second Coming of the Lord, Young Earth Creationism

Most of us heard about Noah’s ark when we were children in Sunday school. We were taught that the animals came to Noah, and they all got in the ark and were saved from the flood that covered the earth. I was not yet a believer in the promise of life when I first heard

Roll Out the Red Carpet

January 29, 2025 by Kathryn Wright in Blog - Cyrus, Isaiah 45, Prosperity Gospel, Suffering

As the Palisades and Eaton fires burned in California over the last few weeks, upwards of 12,000 structures were consumed, including schools, businesses, churches and homes. Among those impacted were celebrities such as Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins who lost their private houses to the fires. The cost of the damage is estimated to be

Challenging the Status Quo (Romans 16:25-27)

January 28, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - Church, Rom 16:24-27, Romans, Textual criticism

After the death of the apostles, grace teachings fell into disfavor. The vast majority of teachers proclaimed that eternal salvation could be lost if the believer did not do enough good works. This lasted until the Reformation. After the Reformation, many more taught the necessity of good works from another angle. They said that if

Justified by Works (Proverbs 20:6-12)

January 27, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - 1 John 3:9-10, Jas 2:24, Justification, Prov 20:6-23, Rom 3:28

In Jas 2:24, James says that a man is justified by works. He is not contradicting Paul, who says that a man is justified by faith (Rom 3:28). Paul is talking about justification before God. James is talking about justification before men. According to James, others declare a person righteous when they see his righteous

Does God Love the Whole World?

January 24, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 1 John 2:2, kosmos, limited atonement

The word world (Greek kosmos) occurs 213 times in the NT. Calvinists have difficulty with verses like John 1:29, 3:16, and I John 2:2 because such verses indicate that Christ died for the sins of the whole world and that God loves the whole world. They have a clever way of explaining why those verses

Eternal Rewards in the Old Testament

January 23, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - 1 Cor 4:5, 2 Cor 5:10, Eccl 12:13-14, Luke 8:17, Rev 22:12, Solomon

One of the emphases of Free Grace Theology is the doctrine of eternal rewards. While every believer will live with Christ forever, some believers will have greater honor and privilege in the kingdom, based on what they did after believing in Jesus for eternal life. Most Christians either don’t think there will be differences among

The Saving Message and the Flat Earth Debate: What Should Be Our Focus?

January 22, 2025 by Colin Jackson in Blog - evangelism, Flat Earth, saving message

The apostle Paul said, “I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some” (I Cor 9:22). For example, he would sometimes take measures to show the Jewish people that he was not attacking the law of Moses when preaching about Jesus Christ (Acts 16:3; 18:18; 21:20-26). We ought

Why Do Preachers Want to Save Your Soul?

January 21, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - James 1:21, Matthew 16:25-26, Salvation of the psyche

Preachers often talk about how many souls were saved at a recent evangelistic meeting. But is that accurate? Does the Bible speak of regeneration as the saving of one’s soul? The word soul, Greek psyche, is the basis for many words in English: psychology, psychiatry, psychic, psyche out, psychosomatic, psychotherapy, psychotic, etc. Psyche occurs 105