March 1, 2021   in Grace in Focus Articles

By Shawn Willson The Cost of Cheap Grace: Reclaiming the Value of Discipleship. By Bill Hull and Brandon Cook. Colorado Springs, CO:Navpress, 2019. 256 pp. Paper, $17.99. I’ve read a lot of books on discipleship, and The Cost of Cheap Grace: Reclaiming the Value of Discipleship, by Bill Hull and Brandon Cook, was one that […]

March 1, 2021   in Grace in Focus Articles

By Summer Stevens I love to garden. At least, I love the idea of gardening. I love it when the long-awaited Baker Creek Seed catalog arrives in the mail, and I settle down on a cozy chair, dog-earing pages for exotic carrots and cauliflower that looks like broccoli. When it’s gray and dreary in the […]

By Shawn Lazar Here is the eminently readable William Barclay describing how the Lord’s Supper was originally celebrated: It is not in doubt that the Lord’s Supper began as a family meal or a meal of friends in a private house…It was like the Jewish Passover which is a family festival and at which the […]

By Bob Wilkin The Reformers argued that the message of Rome would not save. Most Protestants argued that way until the middle of the twentieth century. Billy Graham started putting Roman Catholics on the podium with him. The result was that around 1955 Fundamentalists rejected the message and ministry of Billy Graham. Even though Evangelicals […]

By Ken Yates The word “son” occurs 12 times in the Book of Romans (1:3, 4, 9; 5:10; 8:3, 14, 19, 29, 32; 9:9, 26, 27). Seven of those times it refers to Jesus as the Son of God. Once it refers to Isaac as the son of Abraham. Once it refers to the Jews […]

From The Grace New Testament Commentary (Revised Edition) By Zane Hodges Introduction: Paul’s Grief for Israel (9:1-5) 9:1-2. Paul strongly asserts that he is telling the truth about his concern for the spiritual state of Israel. He forcefully adds, I am not lying, and my conscience bears witness with me in the Holy Spirit. Paul’s […]

February 26, 2021 by Bob Wilkin in Su Gracia Gratuita
Los creyentes que juegan con fuego se queman (Juan 15_6)

“El que en mí no permanece, será echado fuera como pámpano, y se secará; y los recogen, y los echan en el fuego, y arden” (Juan 15:6). En esta sección del Discurso del Aposento Alto (15:1-8), Jesús ilustra el discipulado metafóricamente comparándolo con el cultivo de las uvas. Jesús se presenta a sí mismo como […]

How do we avoid allowing the practices of baptism and the Lord’s Supper from becoming mindless routines_

For some people in Christianity, baptism and the Lord’s Supper have lost their meaning. When babies are baptized, as they are in many groups (Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Reformed, Lutheran), they are not confessing anything. The parents are promising to raise the child in the Christian faith; the one baptized has no say in the […]

Não confie em políticos

Você já notou que o Novo Testamento mal menciona os nomes ou ações das autoridades governantes da época? Por exemplo, durante a época de Jesus, César Augusto estava liderando a República Romana em sua transformação que marcou época no Império Romano. Humanamente falando, esse foi um dos eventos mais importantes da história, e César Augusto […]

February 25, 2021 by Ken Yates in Blog
It Can’t Be That Easy

In John 8:30, it says that “As He (Jesus) spoke these words, many believed in Him.” This is one of those places where many people use the phrase we often hear. That phrase is, “They didn’t really believe.” The reason some say that these people didn’t really believe when John says they did is because […]

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