Perseverance – Page 2 – Grace Evangelical Society

Saving Faith Should Result in a Lifetime Overflowing with Good Works

January 30, 2019 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - good works, Perseverance, saving faith

The following comments and question were in response to my recent blog (see here) about the saying, “Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is never alone.” This is in response to the article on your website responding to Dr. Grudem’s critique of the Free Grace message. I would appreciate thoughtful answers because I

Calvinism Has a Box of Mystery Verses

June 26, 2018 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - Assurance, Calvinism, Eternal Security, Perseverance, saving faith

I’m sitting on the plane awaiting takeoff from Dallas-Fort Worth to Orlando, FL for our June 8-9 regional conference on the theme “Is Calvinism Biblical?” I pull out my conference schedule and look it over. Then I begin to go over the message I was giving that night. Then something unusual happens. It has become

The Overcomer

November 16, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Overcomer, Perseverance, Reign with Christ, Zane Hodges

by Zane Hodges, excerpted from The Journey of Faith, Sermons on Hebrews And he who overcomes, and keeps My works to the end, to him I will give power over the nations-‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron; They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’—as I also have receive from

The Captain of Our Salvation

November 10, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Captain of our Salvation, Perseverance, Suffering

by Zane Hodges, excerpted from The Journey of Faith: Sermons on Hebrews My Christian friend, we are saved freely by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. But the road to glory and dominion over the creation is a tough road. We often encounter on that road, trouble, hardship, frustration, and suffering. But,

Finishing Well

September 30, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - Bob Wilkin, Perseverance, Rule with Christ

by Bob Wilkin My wife and I changed churches in 1992. We had been in a large Bible church. We moved to a small Plymouth Brethren church. Zane Hodges was one of the preachers at the church. I remember hearing teaching from him on perseverance that challenged my thinking. Before I went to the PB