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Do Few People Believe They’re Eternally Secure Apart from Works?

September 26, 2022 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - few find the narrow way, Matthew 7:14

Not all people who identify themselves as holding to Free Grace Theology (FGT) agree that one must believe in Jesus for everlasting life/irrevocable salvation/permanent justification in order to be part of God’s forever family. In fact, some who profess to believe in FGT call that teaching a false gospel. One seminary professor, in criticizing the

A Bad Example (Jeremiah 34)

September 23, 2022 by Ken Yates in Blog - hypocrisy, love for God, slaves

The OT is full of examples to follow and examples to avoid. Paul says that we can learn from those examples (1 Cor 10:6). In a recent study on Jeremiah, I found that the book gives a bad example in one chapter, followed by a good example in the next. In this blog, I will

This Gospel Shall Be Preached to the Whole World (Matthew 24:14)

September 22, 2022 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Matthew 24:14, the gospel of the kingdom, the last days

“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come” (Matthew 24:14). The other day a friend asked if I thought that this verse shows that the Rapture is very soon. He said that studies show that every people

When Bad News Is Good (Jeremiah 30–33)

September 21, 2022 by Ken Yates in Blog - consolation, discipline, Hebrews 12:7, Jeremiah

When you read commentaries on the book of Jeremiah, chapters 30–33 are often called the Book of Consolation. This is because those chapters contain really good news for the Jews. They talk about when Christ will return, set up His kingdom, give them a new covenant, and gather them from all the nations of the

“What Would Be Good News to These People?”

September 20, 2022 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - evangelism and culture, Justin Bailey

The September 2022 issue of Christianity Today (CT) has an interview with an author, Justin Ariel Bailey, who wrote a book about engaging with theology and culture. The title of the interview, which is also the title of this blog, was drawn from Bailey’s answer to the question, “How can a deeper understanding of culture

Taking Part in a Circular Firing Squad (Acts 23:6-9)

September 19, 2022 by Ken Yates in Blog - Assurance, Gospel, Lordship Salvation

The phrase a circular firing squad can be used in a humorous way. It describes a situation where people are attacking a common target, but wind up attacking themselves. When they miss the target in the middle of the circle, they are shooting each other. But the phrase can also be a warning. A person

Clarifying the View That Catholics, Orthodox, and Works Salvation People Are ALL Saved According to Some in Free Grace Circles

September 16, 2022 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Who Is Free Grace?

In a recent blog I wrote that some in FG circles “suggest that Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and works salvation Protestants are all born again” (see here). Two speakers in a podcast jumped on the word all in that sentence. They thought that I was saying that some in FG circles teach that 100% of

Do Not Abide in the Darkness

September 15, 2022 by Kathryn Wright in Blog - 1 John, abide, Darkness, Death, Fellowship, Romans 7

In 1875, a beautiful, young woman named Blanche Monnier from Poitiers, France, was engaged to be married. She was from a wealthy family, but her fiancé was not. Her mother did not approve of the man she chose to be her future husband. All of a sudden, she went missing. Her fiancé did not know

Hananiah Bites the Dust (Jeremiah 28:13, 17)

September 14, 2022 by Ken Yates in Blog - discipline, false teachers, heresy, Jeremiah 28

[The Lord told Jeremiah], “Go and tell Hananiah, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD: “You have broken the yokes of wood, but you have made in their place yokes of iron”’”…So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month (Jer 28:13, 17). We live in a day when many believers do not think

What Is the Free Grace View of Saving Faith?

September 13, 2022 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - faith as persuasion, intellectual assent

Faith is just that. Faith. In fact, that is the title of the second chapter of Zane Hodges’s book, Absolutely Free: “Faith Means Just That—Faith.” Believing in Jesus for everlasting life is not some special kind of faith. It is simply being persuaded that He guarantees everlasting life to all who believe in Him for