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A Life Hanging in the Balance

September 26, 2024 by Kathryn Wright in Blog - Balance, Lordship Salvation, Rev 6:5, Rom 11:6

Like many little girls, I took ballet lessons when I was a kid. I went pretty far, even graduating to pointe in middle school. While I have long since retired my ballet shoes, one lesson that has stayed with me is the importance of balance. Any dancer worth their salt will tell you that balance

The Warts on Our Heroes (Mark 14:71)

September 25, 2024 by Ken Yates in Blog - denial, Inspiration, Mark 14:71, Peter

If you want to be impressed, read the story of Dieter Dengler, one of the only thirty-three prisoners of war who escaped during the Vietnam War. I guarantee you’ll say, “I could never do what he did.” His story is the stuff of legend, especially among those who have served in the military. Dengler grew

Do We Need to Believe with All Our Hearts? Acts 8:37

September 24, 2024 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Acts 8:37, Great Faith, saving faith

WW asks an interesting question about saving faith: LOVE your channel. QUESTION: Acts 8:37 says, “And Philip said, ‘If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.’ And he answered and said, ‘I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.’” Can a person be saved by belief, but maybe Not with All his

Listening to People of Grace (Luke 6:45)

September 23, 2024 by Ken Yates in Blog - critical attitude, doctrine, Grace, Luke 6:37-45, Mercy

In Luke 6, the Lord gives a sermon called the Sermon on the Plain. In it, He refers to a tree that produces good fruit and a tree that produces bad fruit (6:43). Even though many think He is talking about how we recognize a believer, that is not the case. Instead, the Lord refers

Does God Elect People to Salvation?

September 20, 2024 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 2 Thessalonians 2:13, Calvinism and election

According to Calvinists, the elect is one of the most important expressions in the Bible even though it occurs only seven times in the NT (Matt 24:24; Mark 13:22; Rom 11:7; Col 3:12; 1 Tim 5:21; 2 Tim 2:10; and 2 John 1). Without the definite article, the words elect or election occur another sixteen

The Resurrection and Good Works (Mark 12:23)

September 19, 2024 by Ken Yates in Blog - Mark 12:18-27, Resurrection, rewards, Sadducees

As an Army chaplain, I heard a wide spectrum of theological perspectives. For example, I worked with chaplains who did not believe in the resurrection of the dead. One was even a Southern Baptist. He once said in a sermon that the only resurrection we will ever see is the smile on a child’s face.

Did You Know That GES Is Everywhere?

September 18, 2024 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Focused Free Grace, GES, outreach

One day it hit me that the letter series GES often occurs in English words. I started making a list. Then I asked my phone and found out that there’s a scrabble dictionary that lists words that end with, start with, or contain certain combinations of letters. There are about 200 nine-letter words that end

Different Responses to the Word (Proverbs 1:22)

September 17, 2024 by Ken Yates in Blog - fool, Matt 25:2, Matt 7:26, mocker, scorner, simple, wisdom

In Prov 1:22, Wisdom is personified as a woman. She cries out for people to listen and pleads with them to hear God’s Word. The wise are those who do so. But three types of people do not. They are the simple, the fool, and the scorner–also referred to as a mocker. The simple person

What Difference Does It Make If Demons Aren’t Fallen Angels?

September 16, 2024 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 2 Peter 2:4, Genesis 6:2-3, Jude 6, Matthew 8:29

Introduction The word demons is widely understood to be another name for fallen angels. For example, Gotquestions.org gives a popular explanation, writing: While the Bible does not specifically say what happened to the souls of the Nephilim when they were killed, it is unlikely that God would destroy the Nephilim in the Flood only to

Final Salvation: Can We Put It to Bed?

September 13, 2024 by Ken Yates in Blog - Assurance, eternal life, Gospel

When I was a chaplain, the Army sent me to study at an Evangelical seminary for a year. Later, some of the school faculty wrote a book in which they discussed “final salvation.” Other theologians promoted the book. I use the word salvation here to mean salvation from the lake of fire. Some heavy-hitting theologians