Claiming to Have Faith 

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I saw a quote recently that made me stop and think. It comes from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The title character says, “Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.” If you follow Free Grace teaching, you have probably heard another definition of faith: Faith is being convinced that something is
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Putting on a Show 

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It was a photo that exuded love and devotion. It is easy to see why it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Bob Stirm, an Air Force pilot, had returned to the US after five-and-a-half years as a POW in North Vietnam. Those years had been filled with torture and deprivation. The thought of being
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Are Zacharias and Ladd in Hades Because They Had Sinful Addictions? 

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Ravi Zacharias, a well-known American theologian, died in May of 2020. His worldwide ministry focused on apologetics, which involves defending the Christian faith. He was a much sought-after author and speaker in the Evangelical world. Millions of Evangelicals saw him as a valuable partner. That all changed soon after his death. It was disclosed that
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A Ray of Light in the Selective Service? (Romans 1:21) 

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In Romans 1, Paul discusses the spiritual darkness that descends upon people when they reject what is right before their eyes. Much of the discussion deals with Creation and the created order. Creation itself shouts out that there is a Creator and that there are established sexual boundaries. Throughout history, however, mankind has denied these
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A Bad Example (Jeremiah 34)

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The OT is full of examples to follow and examples to avoid. Paul says that we can learn from those examples (1 Cor 10:6). In a recent study on Jeremiah, I found that the book gives a bad example in one chapter, followed by a good example in the next. In this blog, I will
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