Our recent annual conference dealt with grace issues and the local church. In this article I address an issue which was touched on by various conference messages (though no message directly approached this subject). In Acts 20 Paul met with the elders from the church at Ephesus. He urged them to “take heed to yourselves

By Diane Boring Recently I was listening to a popular radio talk show personality answering questions on biblical issues. A gentleman called in to the program in agony because he had lost his assurance of salvation. He had read a book by a well-known Lordship author and he was terrified that maybe he wasn’t really

On several occasions I have been questioned about a verse which seems to say that those seeking the praise of men cannot come to faith in Christ-John 5:44. In context, Jesus was speaking to unbelieving, legalistic, Jews. They were actually seeking to kill Him because He healed on the Sabbath and made Himself equal with

by Bob Bryant I am fascinated by the opening scene in The Fiddler on the Roof as Tevya sings proudly of his Jewish traditions and then says to his audience, “You may ask, ‘How did this tradition get started?’ I’ll tell you…(thoughtful pause)…I don’t know…but it’s a tradition…and because of our tradition, every one of

Confession of sins is a vital element in the Christian’s walk with God. And no verse is more important in this regard than 1 John 1:9. In the following article excerpted from his new commentary on 1-3 John, Zane has given us a wonderful explanation of this key verse. Editor. 9If we confess our sins,

This article is part 2 in a series on salvation in the Old Testament. Salvation in the Psalms: Deliverance from Today’s Troubles Do believers need saving? According to the Psalms the answer is a resounding Yes. Doing so reveals a dependence on God. In this article we will consider the uses of the words save

This article, which has been slightly modified, was printed originally in The Reign of the Servant Kings: A Study of Eternal Security and the Final Significance of Man (Hayesville, NC: Schoettle Publishing Co., 1992), pp. 342-44, and is used by permission. By Jody Dillow The idea that all believers persevere is contradicted by the biblical

There is probably more confusion over the terms save and salvation than any other terms in the Bible. Even solid Free Grace believers are sometimes confused by the use of these terms in Scripture. Most people think that the vast majority of uses of the words save and salvation in Scripture refer to salvation from

In this series on the doctrine of repentance, we have reached two fundamental conclusions. These are: (1) that repentance is not in any way a condition for eternal salvation; and (2) repentance is the decision to turn from sin to avoid, or bring to an end, God’s temporal judgment. All the statements about repentance by

By Stan Nelson Eternal security is the biblical doctrine that God guarantees our eternal salvation from beginning to end. Therefore, a saved person—someone who has trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ alone for eternal salvation—can never lose that salvation. “Once saved always saved,” is another way of saying it. To many people this is unthinkable.