Dear Dr. Wilkin, I have been receiving your newsletter [The GES News] for about, oh nine months or so. . . I do enjoy receiving your newsletter. Thank you for its free subscription. However, I am struggling with some of the things you are writing about…. Do you not believe that there must be some […]

In order to be effective a prayer needn’t be long or flowery. In fact, if it’s a public prayer it had better not be long–you might bore your human audience. It better not be too flowery either–you will turn off the young and the practical. That’s one reason I’ve always liked a little girl’s prayer […]

I have received quite a number of requests from GES News readers for clear gospel tracts. GES has not yet produced any tracts of our own. Nor do we officially endorse any. However, there are quite a few which I personally like and which I think most of our readers would as well. The following […]

In the June 1990 GES newsletter we considered 1 John 2:4 and the issue of knowing Christ at the level of personal fellowship with Him. We saw that the verse conditions such experiential knowledge on the Christian’s obedience to God’s commands. But we did not consider the closing expression of 1 John 2:4. Let us […]

Dear Bob, I have thoroughly enjoyed receiving the GES News and the GES Statement of Faith…. I have met more and more Christians over the past few months who are eternally insecure. . . [and] who are full of unrest. . . Keep up the good work, Bob, in making people aware of the power […]

Recently I received a letter from a reader (GS) in Hibbing Minnesota who asked a number of excellent questions regarding saving faith. They included the following: Was Peter saved without seeing the need for Jesus Christ to die on the Cross (Matt 16:21-23)? Were the disciples saved without believing in the resurrection of Christ? Has […]

Dear Bob, I have a question in regard to church discipline and GES. We will let people come to Jesus just as they are—a sin loving sinner. But are we to also allow them to come to church just as they are—a forgiven sin-loving sinner; or do we require a commitment to follow Jesus as […]

First John 2:4 is a verse that has often been misunderstood. In the New King James Version it reads like this: He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. Many evangelical Christians today read these words as though they meant that […]

I remember once being so thirsty I literally thought I might die. A friend and I had rashly set out on a strenuous mountain climb with what turned out to be too little water. Neither of us were experienced climbers. We picked a hot day to climb. When we started it was in the nineties. […]

Dear Servant of the Lord, Thank you for your generosity in sending me your publications. I praise God for your admirable (and thoroughly Biblical) stand as to what salvation is and is not. Throughout the entire world there is a tremendous need for teaching like yours. Keep going forward. CV Hiawassee, GA Thanks. I needed […]