June 3, 2019 by Ken Yates in Blog - Demas, Perseverance, rewards
Have you been faithful to the Lord_

I love neat summaries. For example, the Bible sometimes will give a succinct principle, with examples, in a few verses. From these examples we can see how the principle works out in the lives of individuals. One such occurrence is found in 2 Tim 4:10-11. These verses come at the end of the book, as […]

Does Romans 5-8 support perseverance of the saints_

A reader recently wrote GES asking for comments on an article found online. The article deals with Romans 5-8. Click here for the article. In Romans 5-8, Paul deals with the Christian life. The main point of the article is that in these chapters Paul is saying that a productive Christian life is inevitable in […]

May 30, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Faithfulness, Luke 19:17
Have some little things someone else did had a big impact in your life_

At the national conference I met a young man we will call Steve who came to the Free Grace position from a strong Lordship Salvation (LS) background. He was in a strong LS church. Steve decided that if he were going to serve the Lord, he was going to do so with gusto. For him […]

Don’t Bother With Atheists_

I love apologetics. I started witnessing a couple of months after I became a Christian at the age of seventeen. The first group I went to was the local Muslim student association. I remember they gave me a tract alleging that Christians believe in three gods. “We do?” I said. From that moment on, I […]

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“Therefore do not listen to your prophets…” (Jer 27:9). “Therefore do not listen to the words of the prophets…” (Jer 23:16; 27:14, 16). “Do not listen to them” (Jer 27:17). Did you know that God sometimes told Israel not to listen to her prophets? During the last days of Israel in the land before seventy […]

What were the highlights from this year’s conference_

The conference ended two and a half hours ago. I’m sitting at my desk in the office, reflecting. Here are some of the highlights as I remember them: We covered every verse in Ephesians over the four days. The plenary messages and the workshops were very well received. J. B. got a free Christian mug […]

Repentance in the Old Testament

Introduction The English word repent is only found ten times in the OT, and one of those ten (Num 23:19) is a statement that God does not repent. In the remaining nine places, the underlying Hebrew word is shuv (or the noun teshuvah), which is most often translated as turn. The noun repentance is not […]

May 23, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Assurance, Faith
On What Do You Base Your Assurance_

Shawn Lazar, Ken Yates, and I received the following question via email: I read the affirmations of faith on the website (https://faithalone.org/beliefs) and saw a line that seems out of sort with what I have heard from GES teaching: “That is, as long as a person believes in Jesus for everlasting life, he knows he […]

May 22, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Cancer, Grief, Suffering, Surgery
God Is Faithful

On December 19, 2018, Sharon, my wife of 42 years, went in for a fairly routine surgery to remove a football-size benign ovarian cyst. It turns out that the cyst was filled with cancer. And then the cyst burst and spread the cancer. Since then Sharon has had five chemo treatments. The first four lasted […]

Do born again people ever apostatize_

Free Grace people are united in saying that born again people are not immune to backsliding. Even Lordship Salvation people agree, though they would say that backsliding can’t last too long (but they don’t know how long is too long). But Free Grace people are not quite united on the question of apostasy. Do born […]

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