I began to share my faith regularly shortly after I became a Christian during my third year in college. For about a year, whenever I got to the invitation, I would challenge people to ask Jesus into their hearts to be saved. Odd things began to happen. These things forced me back to the Scriptures

“That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if by any means, I may attain to the resurrection of the dead. Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on . . . I press on

Dear Bob, We look forward to your newsletters and keep them all. May God continue to bless the work you are doing! We are looking forward to the NT Commentary. GRC In Him, Lewisville, TX Dear GES, Greetings my fellow brothers and sisters from sunny Miami. I was just introduced to your newsletter by a

“Now concerning things offered to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.” Have you ever seen a blow fish? It’s a little fish until it is threatened. Then it puffs itself up into to a big ball. It is a picture of arrogance and aloofness. There are some

In 1980, my long-time friend and fellow GES board member, Mr. Luis Rodriguez, became along with myself a co-founder of the small publishing company known as Redenci�n Viva (Spanish for “Living Redemption”). Our pilot book, The Gospel Under Siege: A Study on Faith and Works, was first published in 1981. At the time, Luis and

“If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God . . . . And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night. .

Near the beginning of Sir Walter Scott’s classic novel Ivanhoe, the fool Wamba discusses the difference between good old Anglo-Saxon words (like swine and sheep) and the (then) new-fangled French words (like pork and mutton) that had been making headway in England since the Norman conquest of 1066. Many centuries later we still use Wamba’s

Dear Sirs, Sorry I do not hold to your view. Please try reading the Bible. Anonymous   Dear Bob, Just a note to express my enjoyment of your recent article on Col 1:21-23. It was very helpful for me. I have taught the passage before and even from the same perspective and same convictions. But,

Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. -Matt 5:3 With these words the King opens His famous Sermon on the Mount. He has been proclaiming a message that declared: “Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matt 4:17). So He opens the Sermon with a reference to

I have found that many on both sides of the Free Grace/Lordship Salvation debate are unable to delineate clearly the major differences between the views. In addition, I have discovered that most are unable to clearly articulate differences within each view.   DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE VIEWS The Free Grace View. All holding the Free Grace