How is Belief Not a Choice? Also: What is a “Personal” Response?
Today on Grace in Focus Radio, Bob and Shawn answer a listener's question and further discuss the difference between belief and choice. Is belief a personal response?
Is Salvation by Faith + Desire?
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of ways to deny or to confuse the message of faith alone in Christ alone for everlasting life that cannot be lost. I recently heard a new one. Someone who identifies as Free Grace recently told me this (I am paraphrasing): You can believe that John 3:16 is true
Isn’t Faith More Than Mental Assent? – Is Belief Enough?
Welcome to Grace in Focus Radio. Over the last few weeks, we have been answering our listeners questions. Bob and Shawn will continue taking questions on the show today, and address the issue of mental assent. Is saving faith more than mental assent? Is a person saved by simple belief? What is the difference between trust and believe? The guys will discuss these and many more issues. You won't want to miss it.
Did John’s Readers Lack Assurance? Re-Examining 1 John 5:13
Someone recently challenged the idea that assurance is of the essence of saving faith by quoting 1 John 5:13. That question has been answered before (see here and here). But I’d like to put an answer in my own words. The verse in question reads: These things I have written to you who believe in
Are You Saved by Reciting the Apostles’ Creed?
Question Is there a difference between intellectual assent and saving faith? Take, for example, the very many churches each Sunday which have the entire congregation recite the Apostle’s Creed. What percentage of those persons who recite orally the Apostles Creed are saved? Is reciting the Creed orally or silently a guarantee that one has saving
If Trust Is Not a Good Word for Faith, What Is?
I received a handwritten letter (yes, some people still do that!) asking the question which is the title of this blog. The question concerned a November-December 2017 Grace in Focus magazine article by Bill Fiess and me entitled, “Saving Faith Is Not Heartfelt Trust.” The article was not discussing trust per se, but heartfelt trust.