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Many Evangelicals Need Everlasting Life

March 31, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Assurance, Assurance of Salvation, Salvation

I remember a call I got about ten or fifteen years ago from my late friend Bob Swift. I had said in a magazine article that ninety to ninety-five percent of all professing Christians are not born again. I based that on the fact that well fewer than one in ten church people indicate that

March 6, 2025

Is There a Need to Believe Unselfishly to Be Saved?

1 John 2:2, 1 John 2:25, 2 Timothy 1:1, Assurance, Believe, Conditions, Hebrews 12:2, John 1:29, John 3:16, motive, Saved, Unselfishly

Welcome to the Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Mike Lii are answering a question about conditions to be eternally saved. Is there a certain kind or mindset of belief? For example, does a person have to believe unselfishly to be saved? Is this a condition? Thanks for listening & never miss an

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February 28, 2025

How Do We Learn to Love God?

1 John 3:16, 1 John 4:19, Assurance, Bible Teaching, Fruits, God, Grow, Learn, LGBTQ, love, Please God, Repentance, Romans 12:2, Secure Forever, Sin, Transformation

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Mike Lii are answering a question about learning to love God. How does this happen? What if I am persisting in sin? Does this mean I don’t love God? But what if the sin bothers my conscience—does this mean I do love God? Please listen

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January 30, 2025

Is It Okay to Use the Four Spiritual Laws?

Assurance, Campus Crusade, Ephesians 2:8-9, Four, Free Grace, Gospel, Laws, Spiritual, witnessing

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about witnessing and methods or tools to use in doing so. Is the “Four Spirituals Laws” a good witnessing tool? Never miss an episode of the Grace in Focus podcast!

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January 23, 2025

Was Dr. Ryrie Clear on Salvation?

Assurance, Believe, Dallas Seminary, Dr. Ryrie, good works, James 2:14, James 2:24, Lordship Salvation, Persevere, Salvation, Soteriology

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Mike Lii are answering a question about Charles Ryrie’s eternal salvation position concerning James 2. Was (former DTS professor) Ryrie’s salvation message a clear and consistent one? Please listen daily and never miss an episode of the Grace in Focus podcast!

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December 16, 2024

How Can People With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Believe in Jesus?

Assurance, Believe, Disorder, Faith, John 11:25-27, Obsessive Compulsive, OCD, promise, Proposition

Welcome to Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Mike Lii are answering a question about Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Does this disorder make it harder or maybe even impossible for a person to believe in Jesus? What about assurance for the OCD person? We invite you to listen today (and each weekday) to the

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December 11, 2024

Does the Present Tense of Believe for Eternal Salvation Mean or Require Continual Belief?

Assurance, Believe, Continual, Continue, Eternal, Faith, John 5:24, Never, Statements

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Kathryn Wright and Ken Yates are clarifying a question about belief for eternal salvation. Does it require continual belief in order to maintain it? What about the “never” statements in the Gospel of John? Is it possible to lose salvation or give it back? Please listen each weekday!

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December 9, 2024

Who or What Kind of Person Is Being Described in Revelation 21:8?

Assurance, Believers, Doubt, fearful, Judgment, lake of fire, Overcome, Revelation 21:8, Second Death, Unbelievers

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Kathryn Wright and Ken Yates are answering a question about Revelation 21:8. What does it mean that those who are cast into the lake of fire are fearful or cowardly? How has this passage been abused to make believers doubt? We invite you to listen today (and each

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The Effects of Anxiety, and Its Cure

December 3, 2024 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - Anxiety, Assurance, Depression, John 5:24, Matt 6:25, Proverbs 12:25

Solomon wrote much of the book of Proverbs. For much of his life, he was the wisest man on earth. The book is full of that wisdom. But sometimes he says things that everybody with average intelligence already knows. Proverbs 12:25a is an example. Solomon says, “Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression…” You

November 8, 2024

Does Focused Free Grace Advocate for Just Sharing the Minimum When Evangelizing?

Assurance, Believe, evangelism, Focused, Free Grace, Gospel, John 4:10-14, Minimum, Repentance

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Mike Lii have a discussion about Free Grace and evangelism. Some would say that Free Grace proponents have a minimum gospel. Some even accuse Free Grace Theology of being a cross-less gospel. What do they mean by this? What is the necessary, bottom-line truth that

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