James 2:14-26 – Grace Evangelical Society

July 16, 2024

A Review of Zane Hodges’ 1981 Book, “The Gospel Under Siege”

Book, Faith, Gospel, James 2:14-26, Justification, saving message, Under Siege, Works, Zane Hodges

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. For the next few days, Bob Wilkin and Mike Lii are looking at the content of The Gospel Under Siege (Zane Hodges) and the recent sequel The Gospel is Still Under Siege (Bob Wilkin). Today is a review of the original book by Zane. How could it be that

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The KISS Method for James 2

July 14, 2023 by Kathryn Wright in Blog - evangelism, James 2:14-26, tough texts

Imagine that you get a knock on your front door and are faced with two Jehovah’s Witnesses. They proceed to evangelize you according to their works-based doctrine. They’re nice and seemingly sincere, but obviously confused about the free gift of eternal life. As the conversation goes on, you share the saving message of eternal life

Salvation by a Dead, Spoken-Only Faith

May 12, 2020 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - dead faith, James 2:14-26, Lordship Salvation, Repentance and Salvation, saving faith, works salvation

Last week I was contacted by a student from Israel College of the Bible who wanted to ask me some questions on Skype. We had that meeting at 11AM today, which was 7PM in Israel. During the course of our conversation, my new friend mentioned a 2015 video podcast by Dr. James White, entitled “Bob

How Wrong Interpretation Can Destroy Assurance

June 12, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Assurance, James 2:14-26, legalism, Lordship Salvation

I thought this was a good question about James 2: Have you seen any articles/books expand on the fact that the traditional interpretation of James 2:14-26 (saving faith has works, and non-saving faith doesn’t have works) leads to legalism and lack of assurance of salvation? Recently I read a Free Grace book (can’t remember which

Do We Always Act Consistently with What We Believe?

March 21, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Faith and works, James 2:14-26, Romans 12:2

Here is an email question I just received: I am wrestling with a question about faith that I’m hoping you can shed some light on for me. I’ve heard it said often that our actions are always a product of our belief. For example, if I believe that I should love my wife, then I