Recently I received a call regarding this passage from Pastor Rick Lawrenson of Nags Head Baptist Church in Nags Head, North Carolina. Rick is preaching through the Sermon on the Mount, (a brave man!) and this passage was giving him trouble: Whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of

By Stan Nelson In 1927, German physicist Werner Heisenberg proposed what is known as “the uncertainty principle.” It says that both the position and velocity of a subatomic particle can’t be precisely measured at the same time. Measuring either one of these interferes with measuring the other. Certainty and Eternal Life Life is filled with

Calvinists say that justification is by faith alone (sola fide in Latin). That is the view that God declares sinners to be in right standing with Him (“not guilty”) the moment they simply believe in Christ. Obviously, or so it would seem to the uninitiated, there is no place for works in justification in Calvinism.

By Becky Tidd I was only five years old when I believed that God sent his Son, the Lord Jesus, for me so that I might have eternal life. At that time in my life it was so simple and sensible because I knew I was not good enough to make it to heaven on

During the hundreds of years in which the notorious Spanish Inquisition was in force to root out and destroy “heresy,” there was a “ceremony” called an auto da fe, which is Portuguese for “act of faith.” In Spain, Portugal, and their New World colonies, Protestants, Jews, and other non-conformists were frequently burned at the stake-often

This article is a condensed form of a message given by Dr. Wilkin at the March 1997 GES Conference “Assurance: The Foundation of a Successful Christian Life.” The complete message, including a question and answer session, is available on either audio ($4) or video ($10) tape. Orders can be placed by returning the resource sheet

Recently I received a phone call and a long letter from a reader worried that he had committed the unpardonable sin during a period of time in his life when he was away from the Lord. The expression “the unpardonable sin” doesn’t occur in Scripture. This is a label which people have put on what

By T. Kem Oberholtzer Five years ago if you asked someone “How are you today?” the response would have been “Fine!” Today, if you ask someone the same question, the response is “Busy.” In our hi-tech world, with every imaginable piece of equipment for simplifying our lives, we are busier and more stressed than ever.

By Doros Zachariades The Gospel of grace penned by the apostle Paul in the NT was certainly based on the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord. But how did the message that Paul referred to as “my gospel” compare with that which Jesus Himself taught during His earthly ministry? A look at Luke 7:36-50

An article I wrote on Mark 16:16 led to a debate last January, as proposed to me by a minister who denies justification by faith alone. In the debate I repeatedly referred to John’s Gospel, the only book in Scripture whose purpose is evangelistic. My opponent was uncomfortable with this view. Instead, he asserted that