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How to Come Back from Carnality (James 4)

July 6, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Repentance, Sin

How does a backslidden believer come back into fellowship with God? James 4 gives sound instruction. In vv 1-5, James shines the light on some areas of sin in the lives of these believers. They were engaged in: Quarrels and conflicts (vv 1, 2) Fleshly pleasures (v 1) Lust (v 2) Murder (v 2) Envy

How We Decide Where to Hold a Regional Conference

July 5, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - regional conference

People have often asked, “How do you decide where to hold a regional conference?” Let me shed some light on our reasoning process. There are four basic criteria. First, invitations. Was there an invitation to hold a regional at a given city or area? Those make a big difference in our planning, especially if the

Who Took John 5:4 Out of My Bible?

July 4, 2018 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Bible study, John 5:4, Majority Text, Textual criticism

“For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well from whatever disease he had” (John 5:4). A friend sent me Dr. Michael Heiser’s LogosTalk article “Who Took John 5:4 Out of My Bible?”

Eternal Existence vs Eternal Life

July 3, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - annihilationism, conditionalism, ECT, eternal conscious torment, Hell, immortality of the soul

In my discussions with annihilationists, one of the conceptual roadblocks I’ve encountered is an inability to distinguish between eternal existence and having eternal life. Some annihilationists reason this way: “To have eternal life means to exist forever. Only believers have eternal life, therefore only believers will exist forever. Since unbelievers lack eternal life, they will

Efforts to Find Repentance in John’s Gospel

July 2, 2018 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - evangelism, Gospel of John, Repentance, turning from sins

Recently one of the readers of our blog asked me to respond to a Spring 2013 Journal article from The Master’s Seminary Journal. The article was by Dr. David Croteau and was entitled, “Repentance Found? The Concept of Repentance in the Fourth Gospel.” Croteau holds to Lordship Salvation and the necessity of turning from one’s

What Was Zane Hodges Saying about Salvation in 1 Timothy 4:16?

July 1, 2018 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

By Bob Wilkin “Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you” (1 Tim 4:16). We ran an article in the May-June Grace in Focus in which Zane Hodges discussed 1 Tim 4:6-16. At the end of the article

The Films of the Kendrick Brothers

July 1, 2018 by GES Webmaster in Grace in Focus Articles

By Steve Dehner About fifteen years ago, Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, GA, began making movies. Under the creative leadership of Alex Kendrick and his brother Stephen, Sherwood Pictures so far has produced four feature films and one made under the brothers’ own subsidiary. Despite mixed-to-poor reviews in the secular press, they have amassed a

Grace and Groans

July 1, 2018 by GES Webmaster in Grace in Focus Articles

By Charlie McCall We Need Christ God is Himself the grace needed for the Christian life. Romans 7 depicts the Christian experience when a person attempts to live from the Word of God or from his new orientation (new nature) toward Christ but not from the person of Christ Himself. That experience is defeat and

Who You Are Tells You Whom to Love — Ephesians 5:22–6:9

July 1, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Grace in Focus Articles

By Shawn Lazar What is important in living the Christian Life? What does it mean to follow Jesus—to live the kind of life He wants you to live? At the very beginning of my Christian life, I was reading very mystical authors like Watchman Nee and Andrew Murray. What they described was so above and

The Importance of the Expression That Day and Hour

July 1, 2018 by Bill Fiess in Grace in Focus Articles

By Bill Fiess A New Expression In the middle of His Olivet Discourse, Jesus Christ made this astonishing statement: “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only” (Matt 24:36). Though it is clear that Jesus had been speaking about prophetic events, He unexpectedly used