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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

Six Hundred Years of Fear (John 4:14)

September 12, 2022 by Ken Yates in Blog - Assurance, Catholicism, Gospel, Missions

Recently GES held a regional conference in Tallahassee, FL. The audience was made up of primarily Spanish speaking people, although most were bilingual. One of the speakers was a local Spanish speaking pastor, Dr. Marino Martinez. He spoke about the history of Christianity in Spanish speaking, primarily Latin American, countries. He gave a good overview

Do We Need to Preach Repentance When We Share Christ with Someone?

September 9, 2022 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Mark 1:14-15, Repentance and Salvation

Bob (not me) asks this important question: “Must the gospel message include a call for people to repent of their sins?” If by “the gospel message” we mean the message of justification by faith alone that Paul defends in Galatians, the answer is no. The words repent and repentance are not found even once in

When in Doubt, Go Big

September 8, 2022 by Kathryn Wright in Blog - Kingdom, limited atonement, rewards

It is not surprising that we live in a world that has a defective view of God. Even those who believe a Creator exists do not understand the extent of His promises, as well as His ability to accomplish them, as found in the Bible. For example, for many people, the concept of heaven is