(Romans 3:26) By Zane C. Hodges1 The result of the death of Christ on the cross is that God can be righteous and justify the person who has faith in Jesus. The English necessarily obscures an obvious Greek word play, since the Greek words for righteous (dikaion) and justify (dikaiounta) are cognates joined in Paul’s

The Answer Is Not As Obvious As It Seems While working on my new book, The Ten Most Misunderstood Words in the Bible, I learned an important lesson. Well, some might say I strayed off the path of orthodoxy again, but I prefer to think of it as finding truth in Scripture that just happens

By Ken White The other day I was pondering the common thinking among Evangelical Christians; specifically about how we believe that when we share our faith with a non-believer we need to push them for a decision or give them a chance to respond to the message of life. Actually, I agree with that belief,

No Lordship Is a Misleading Label For Free Grace Theology Some Lordship preachers call the Free Grace position “no-lordship.” For example, in just three pages John MacArthur rails against our position calling it “no-lordship teaching,” “no-lordship doctrine,” “the no-lordship error,” “the no-lordship definition of faith,” “no-lordship salvation,” and “the no-lordship partisan” (Faith Works, pp. 37-39).

This article was originally published in the GES newsletter in April of 1991. Have you ever heard or had a conversation something like the following? “Are you a Christian?” “Well of course I’m a Christian! Do you think I’m a heathen? I’m an American!” “Well, I mean do you believe…” “I believe in God.” “But

This article was section III of the author’s Spring 2010 Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society article entitled, “John Piper’s Diminished Doctrine of Justification and Assurance.” Piper Identifies Assurance as Major Spiritual Problem in His Church Piper has identified the issue of assurance as a major spiritual problem among his parishioners. He stated in his

Introduction The only class I was privileged to take from Dr. John Walvoord (now with the Lord) was a doctoral class called Advanced Christology. It was a small class with only about ten students. This article is an outgrowth of one of the things that we discussed in that class. It is something that really

by Ken White For the past 13 years my wife and I, along with our six children, have served as missionaries and church planters in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Since July we have been back in the United States, in Bakersfield, CA, and are trying to begin a Free Grace church, or rather a multiplying,

Here is a short list of adjectives that pastors have actually used to describe faith in Jesus that will not save: non-genuine, professing, superficial, alleged, dead, demon, false, head, non-heartfelt, intellectual, temporary, spurious, implicit, historic, delusive, counterfeit, sign, miracle, easy, cheap, and non-confessing. What is the effect on the person in the pew when he

By René A. López Introduction When God justified Abraham (Gen 15:6), did he believe that he was eternally secure as a result of believing God? If so, was that belief in the security of his eternal destiny necessary for God to justify Him? Paul answers both of these questions in Rom 4:21-22. Abraham Was Assured