4For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for

Pregnant? Someone’s got little Estelle pregnant? No! Who would have thought it?” The college/career Bible study had just ended with the hymn, “Jesus the Very Thought of Thee.” Now it was time to socialize. “She’s really wrecked her Christian testimony,” said Lex Pharis. “It sure won’t help our Bible study group either!” Jean van Dort

by Jay Leatherman with Alfy Austin The scene was the Jefferson City Correctional Center in Jefferson City, Missouri. I came to the prison, not as a result of a felony, but as part of the Bill Glass Evangelistic Association Total Prison Weekend outreach. It was late on Saturday afternoon, my second day of sharing the

For he who lacks these things is short sighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. The writer of this article has been nearsighted since grade school. My 7th grade teacher noticed me squinting as I tried to read the blackboard. She shared this observation with my parents,

By Charlie Bing In a discussion I had with a seminary professor, the Lordship Salvation debate was characterized as follows: “Lordship Salvation puts the cart [works] before the horse [salvation through faith], but you in the Free Grace movement detach the cart from the horse.” Does Free Grace detach works from salvation and faith as

“Receiving the end of your faith–the salvation of your souls.” This is the most difficult of the passages on “soul salvation” in the Bible, in my opinion. A casual reading of this text seems to suggest that eternal salvation is in view. This is suggested by the fact that the salvation in question is said

This morning as I drew aside the drapes and looked out my bedroom window I saw a pale purple-and-gold-streaked sky that brought to mind this fine nineteenth century German hymn: When morning gilds the skies, My heart awaking cries: May Jesus Christ be praised; Alike at work or prayer To Jesus I repair: May Jesus

“Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if

Dear GES Team, I just wanted to express my thanks and amen to what you stand for and how your newsletters are such a blessing. I have been blessed to be given an outreach in high schools across our great land. I am honored to be able to give the Grace Gospel in each school

Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. This verse certainly is confusing for the person who understands it as dealing with how a person obtains eternal salvation from hell. Note the conditions stated. There are two. The first is