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September 18, 2025

Does God Show His Love Equally to All Believers?

Acts 5:41, All, Believer, Believers, discipline, Equal, Equally, Fellowship, God, Hebrews 12:5-11, Jude 20-21, love, Luke 15:17

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about God’s love for believers. Does he show more love to some than others? Does God love all believers in the same amount and the same way? Is the issue more about how or even whether we experience His love? Thanks for listening & never miss an episode of the Grace in Focus podcast!

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Different Motives for Serving the Lord

September 4, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - Discipleship, Fear, fear; rewards, Gratitude, love, motivation

I spent a lot of years in the military. I met a lot of soldiers. If you asked them why they signed up to serve, you would get many different answers. Some did it for love of country. Others for the steady paycheck. Some craved the challenge, the camaraderie, or the chance to travel. Many

August 12, 2025

What Is the Best Motivation for Following the Lord?

Christian, Discipleship, Fear, Follow, Hebrews 11, Living, love, motivation, Obedience, Reward, rewards, Usefulness

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Ken Yates and Kathryn Wright are looking at what should motivate a Christian to follow Christ as Lord? There are a variety of motivations – Is there a hierarchy of motivations? …some that are better than others? …more godly than others? How can we come closer to the mark? Please listen and never miss an episode of the Grace in Focus Podcast!

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August 4, 2025

What Is the Call to the Ministry?

Call, Complementarian, Decision, Decisions, Egalitarian, elder, gift, Husband, love, ministry, Overseer, pastor, Submit, Wife

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and David Renfro are answering a question about God’s call or calling. What is God’s call to service? How do we discern that we’ve received it? Whendoes it come? Please listen to this and every episode of the Grace in Focus podcast!

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What Do You Think God’s Most Important Attribute Is?

July 30, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Attributes of God, love, sovereignty, Sovereignty of God

Dr. Dick Biery told me that circa 1980 he heard the president of Calvary Bible College ask a CBC commencement speaker what he considered God’s most important attribute. This was a private conversation between the three of them after the ceremony. Dr. Biery was Chairman of the CBC board at the time. Before I reveal

May 5, 2025

Does God Love Every Person Equally?

Abiding, Ephesians 4:30, Equally, Friends, Galatians 6:10, God, John 15:14, John 15:9-10, John 3:16, Jude 21, love, Romans 9:13

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about God’s Love. Does God loveevery individual equally? Obviously, John 3:16 would indicate that He loves all people, but are there degrees to His love for different people? Does He love the righteous more than the wicked? We invite you to listen each weekday to the Grace in Focus podcast!

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April 8, 2025

How and Why Does God Discipline Believers Today?

Believers, blessings, Children, Cursing, discipline, God, love, Protection, provision, value

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and David Renfro are answering a question about God disciplining His children. How does He do it and why does He do it? Isn’t child discipline a measure of valuing children? That covers the why, but how does He do it? Have you ever experienced this? We hope you'll keep on listening and keep Grace in focus!

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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 and never miss an episode of the Grace in Focus podcast!

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Recognize That You Are a Sinner

December 12, 2024 by Ken Yates in Blog - Faith, Gratitude, love, Luke 7:36-50, Repentance

On many occasions, I have heard evangelists say that the unbeliever must recognize that he is a sinner before he can be saved. When unbelievers realize this, they will feel sorrow for their many sins. That is where repentance comes into play. It is like a two-step process prior to believing: One must admit that

Putting on a Show

August 5, 2024 by Ken Yates in Blog - 1 John 3:18, hypocrisy, love, truth

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