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Why Do Good If Salvation Is Not By Works?

October 31, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - good works, Grace, one-way love

If you preach grace—that God saves you through simple faith in Jesus for eternal life, apart from your works (cf. Gal 2:16)—then why do good? What’s the point of all the love commands in the NT (e.g., “serve one another in love,” Gal 5:13), if your eternal destiny in heaven or hell is not on

Jesus Makes You Family (Galatians 3:26–4:7)

October 26, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Galatians, Grace, Law & Gospel

It is a universal fact of human nature that we all want to love and be loved. We all want to belong. But how will we do it? By law or grace? Why do young men join gangs? Usually because they live at the margins of society where they have little significance in the eyes

Free Grace Theology Is Really Important (Mark 4:13)

September 27, 2018 by Ken Yates in Blog - basics, four soils, Grace, Mark 4:1-20, Works

At the end of the Parable of the Four Soils in Mark 4, the disciples asked the Lord to explain the parable to them. He does so, but before explaining the parable, He asks them a couple of questions. “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?” (Mark 4:13).

God Did It (Galatians 1:1-5)

September 12, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Grace, legalism, Salvation

Legalists from Israel were corrupting the Galatian churches, teaching them they needed to be circumcised and to keep different laws to be saved. Paul hit back. Hard. Paul’s greeting to the Galatian churches (1:1-5) strongly emphasized that God is the main actor in salvation. God sends the preacher (v 1a). God raised Jesus from the

Rewards, Antithetical to Grace?

October 25, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Grace, rewards, Works, Zane Hodges

by Zane Hodges, excerpted from an article originally published in the Autumn 1991 edition of the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society Among the very last recorded words of our Lord Jesus Christ are these: “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his

The Wonder of Gratitude for Grace

September 28, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Grace, Gratitude, Shawn Lazar

by Shawn Lazar, excerpted from an article in the September/October edition of Grace in Focus We All Are Grateful When People Do Us Favors Of course, it is common enough to appreciate the small favors people do for us. Social life is filled with little kindnesses that differentiate friendship from mere civility. But such courtesies