By Zane Hodges *This article first ran in the November-December 2007 issue of Grace in Focus. Sometimes grace people do not think as clearly as they need to on important issues. The sin of unbelief—not believing in the Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life—is one of these issues. Let me address some questions that have,

By Ken Yates INTRODUCTION Almost all of us have heard a story or two about “Johnny in Sunday school.” Such stories usually involve the teacher’s asking little Johnny a Bible question, which he answers innocently and incorrectly. His answer is the punchline of a joke. One such story relates the teacher’s asking Johnny, “What is

By Earl Radmacher* The Lord Jesus Christ became sin for me. I owed a debt I couldn’t pay. He paid a debt He didn’t owe. There are many people today who are rightfully distressed by the level of living of many of their fellow Christians, at least of those who profess life in Christ. They

By Ken Yates INTRODUCTION In the first two chapters of Romans, Paul speaks of the wrath of God. When they hear that phrase, most Evangelicals assume that it refers to the lake of fire. Unbelievers, it is thought, will be cast into hell and experience God’s wrath forever. Unbelievers will spend eternity in the lake

By Bob Wilkin Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new (NKJV). Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! (NIV). So if any one [be] in Christ, [there is]

By Philippe R. Sterling The virginal conception of Jesus was one of the signs that confirmed Him as the messianic son of David. God enabled a young Jewish virgin to have a baby in accordance with what He had revealed to the eighth-century BC prophet Isaiah. The messianic prophecy of Isa 7:13-15 continued the thread

By Kathryn Wright A MEAN MAN Over the Christmas holiday I heard an interesting story about the ill-tempered character Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’s novella A Christmas Carol. According to some historians, Dickens was visiting Edinburgh, Scotland, in the early 1840s when he stumbled across a tombstone in Canongate Kirkyard. The stone read “Ebenezer Lennox

By Geoff Stevens Another school shooting. This time a Christian school. Many people are asking where God was. Why doesn’t God do something about all the tragedy in the world? Doesn’t He care? Psalm 110 answers this question. Surprisingly, King David was invited to hear God the Father conversing with the Son, which is so

By Mike Lii Have you ever heard someone who professes to know NT Greek teach that the Greek verb pisteuō, translated as “believe” in the Gospel of John, is in the Greek present tense, indicating continual action? According to these teachers, believe should really be understood as “continue to believe” throughout John’s Gospel. For them,

By John H. Niemelä John 3:16 is the most famous quotation from Jesus. Some would take issue with that statement. Some think the idea that Jesus said those words is an urban legend of the New Testament.1 Actually, that charge itself is fake news. A veritable war exists between Bible translations (which generally treat John