You crown the year with Your goodness, and Your paths drip with abundance. –Psalm 65:11 So wrote King David centuries ago. Or perhaps he wrote this as a young man taking care of his father’s sheep. Or he might even have written it while he was a fugitive from the hatred of King Saul. It […]

A few months ago I presented a paper on Gal 5:21 at a meeting of Bible scholars in Kansas City, Missouri. During the question and answer time after my presentation, a striking question was raised. I had suggested in my paper that failure in the Christian life will result in loss of kingdom rewards, not […]

At Christmastide even the most convinced Protestant should be allowed a little Latin–for example, gloria in excelsis Deo! After all, didn’t the great Reformers, Luther and Calvin, write chiefly in Latin? And wasn’t Calvin’s Latin style a great deal more elegant than even the pope’s? Yes to both questions! Hence our title: “Peace on Earth” […]

This article is the first in a series of articles I plan to do on the topic of the soul and salvation. This subject is important because there are a number of so-called problem texts which refer to the saving of one’s soul. Those passages cannot be properly understood without understanding the meaning of “soul […]

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In Romans 8:13 Paul offers his Christian readers a significant option. He writes:   For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. This may clearly be called a death/life option. But just what is Paul […]

Apostasy is a renunciation of one’s faith. It is not strictly a religious term. For example, since Ronald Reagan is a former Democrat, he is an apostate in terms of his former political beliefs. The question is, do genuine Christians ever stop believing in Christ? The answer is, yes. The Scriptures give a number of […]

Is your church one that promotes the Free Grace Gospel? If so, you could help a lot of people by asking your pastor to jot us a note indicating his agreement with our doctrinal position. So far only a small number of pastors have contacted us. Yet we receive calls and letters regularly from people […]

Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. We who believe in the freeness of the Gospel may be uncomfortable with this verse. At least we should be unless we’ve considered carefully what it is saying. After all, if salvation is […]

Many people have the erroneous notion that the OT is all law and the NT is all grace. Some liberals even maintain that the God of the OT is harsh and vindictive but the God of the NT is tender and forgiving. Some people (not liberals, but very misinformed) think that OT believers were saved […]