“What a beautiful service!” is a comment you often hear after a fine public worship gathering. But we shouldn’t be solely dependent for our spiritual nourishment on weekly or bi-weekly services at church. We need “Christian” vitamins every day! It is appalling how many believers don’t follow the advice of the (true) chorus: Read your […]

By Stan Nelson Is the argument between Free Grace and Lordship Salvation just a semantic issue? Do both camps merely use different words to express the same message? Are people nitpicking when they see a distinct difference between a salvation provided (received by faith alone) and a salvation partly earned (received by dedication and service)? […]

By Lewis Sperry Chafer The Word of God makes no appeal to the unsaved for a betterment of life. There is but one issue in this dispensation between God and the unregenerate man, and that is neither character nor conduct; it is the personal appeal of the Gospel of the grace of God. Until the […]

Finding a church home is a very important concern we all have when we move. GES provides a service to help. We maintain a list of churches in the U.S. which agree with our doctrinal position. If someone calls or writes our office, we are happy to let them know if there are any churches […]

4For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for […]

Pregnant? Someone’s got little Estelle pregnant? No! Who would have thought it?” The college/career Bible study had just ended with the hymn, “Jesus the Very Thought of Thee.” Now it was time to socialize. “She’s really wrecked her Christian testimony,” said Lex Pharis. “It sure won’t help our Bible study group either!” Jean van Dort […]

by Jay Leatherman with Alfy Austin The scene was the Jefferson City Correctional Center in Jefferson City, Missouri. I came to the prison, not as a result of a felony, but as part of the Bill Glass Evangelistic Association Total Prison Weekend outreach. It was late on Saturday afternoon, my second day of sharing the […]

For he who lacks these things is short sighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. The writer of this article has been nearsighted since grade school. My 7th grade teacher noticed me squinting as I tried to read the blackboard. She shared this observation with my parents, […]

By Charlie Bing In a discussion I had with a seminary professor, the Lordship Salvation debate was characterized as follows: “Lordship Salvation puts the cart [works] before the horse [salvation through faith], but you in the Free Grace movement detach the cart from the horse.” Does Free Grace detach works from salvation and faith as […]

“Receiving the end of your faith–the salvation of your souls.” This is the most difficult of the passages on “soul salvation” in the Bible, in my opinion. A casual reading of this text seems to suggest that eternal salvation is in view. This is suggested by the fact that the salvation in question is said […]