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June 16, 2025

How Could the Apostles Be So Blessed and Yet Suffer So Much?

Acts 5:41, Apostles, Blessed, criticism, Martyrdom, Persecution, rewards, Romans 8:17-18, Suffer, Suffering

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are talking about a seeming paradox. Why were the apostles promised blessings and rewards by Christ for following Him, but they seemed to suffer so much? How did they maintain joy through this suffering? Please listen to this and every episode of the Grace in Focus podcast!

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Did You Know That Believer’s Baptism Was a Capital Crime during the Reformation?

January 15, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - martyrs, Persecution

I’ve been reading The Pilgrim Church, by E. H. Broadbent. The book discusses church history from around AD 100 to 1900. Did you know that during the Reformation, millions of people were tortured and, if they refused to recant, were put to death for their Christian beliefs and practices?i And did you know that the

March 20, 2024

Practical Ramifications of Assurance of Salvation – Part 2

Assurance, Confidence, holiness, Judgment Seat, Persecution, Prayer life, Salvation, Suffering, Testing, trials

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Bob Wilkin and Bob Vacendak have been in a short series about assurance of salvation. Today they are continuing a list of the practical benefits that come with assurance of salvation. Some of these include a better prayer life, a better preparation for the Judgment Seat of Christ and a stronger thankfulness in tribulation. Wilkin and Vacendak will complete the list and encourage you!

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