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September 9, 2025

Save Your Life By Losing It? – Mark 8:34-38

Ashamed, cross, Discipleship, Ephesians 2:8-9, Evangelistic, Following, Grace, John 3:16, Life Lose, Losing, Mark 8:34-38, rewards, Save, Suffering, Works

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are once again looking at a “Tough Text” in Mark’s Gospel. In chapter 8:34-38, the Savior is clearly talking about some pretty heavy works. So could this possibly be about salvation, or is it not obviously about something else like discipleship or rewards? Please listen - and never miss an episode of the Grace in Focus Podcast!

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August 27, 2025

The Parable of the Talents – Matthew 25:14-30

Believers’ Treasure, Church-Age, Faithful, Matthew 25:14-30, Parable, rewards, Rulership, Steward, Talents

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are addressing another “Tough Text” – “The Parable of the Talents”. What is a talent? Why are the servants given different amounts of talents? What are the lessons of this parable? Please listen today and each weekday, to the Grace in Focus podcast!

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The Sun: Friend or Foe?

August 25, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - 2 Tim 2:12, Acts 8:41, Luke 9:11–15, Mark 4:13–20; Luke 8:4–8, Mark 4:3–9, Matt 13:18–23, Matt 13:3–9, rewards, Rom 8:17, Suffering

All three Synoptic Gospels include the Parable of the Four Soils and Jesus’ explanation of what the parable means (Matt 13:3–9; 18–23; Mark 4:3–9; 13–20; Luke 8:4–8; 11–15). The second soil—the stony soil—represents a believer who does not endure. He gives up when things get tough. He will be in the kingdom but will not

Faithful Believers Will Have Enemies

August 21, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - 10, 25-27, 6–7, apostasy, Heb 1:5-13, Ps 102:8, Ps 104:4, Ps 110:1, Ps 2:4-6, Ps 45:3-4, Ps 97:7, rewards, righteousness

In the opening verses of Hebrews, the unnamed author emphasizes the enemies of Christ and His people. He does this by quoting and alluding to various OT passages, focusing mainly on passages from several psalms. In Heb 1:5, the author quotes from Ps 2, which speaks of the coming King’s laughing at His enemies (Ps

Wanting Others to Reign with Christ

August 15, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - Bema, Luke 9:46-50, rewards

In Luke 9:49-50, we find a rather strange account. John sees a guy casting out demons in Christ’s name and tells him to stop. He tells the Lord that he did this because the guy “does not follow with us.” The word follow is a discipleship word. The guy was not one of the inner

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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When to Eat, Drink, and Be Merry

August 11, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - 1 Cor 15:32, 1 Cor 15:58, Isa 22:13, Resurrection, rewards

I recently saw a movie, Downfall, about the last days of Adolf Hitler. The setting is Hitler’s bunker beneath the streets of Berlin. The Russian army is closing in. The situation for Hitler and all the people in the bunker is hopeless. It is depressing. People are committing suicide rather than face the wrath of

Is the Holy Spirit Our Guarantee?

August 6, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - 2 Cor 5:5-10, Eternal Rewards, Judgment Seat, rewards, Rom 8:23-25

In 2 Cor 5:5, Paul says that God “has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.” Anyone who understands that eternal life is a gift that we receive by believing in Christ for it will naturally assume this is what Paul is talking about. When we believe, we are born from above by the Spirit

What Did Paul Entrust to God “To Keep… until That Day” (2 Tim 1:12)?

August 5, 2025 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - 2 Tim 1:12, Eternal Rewards, Great White Throne Judgment, rewards

For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day. After quoting 2 Tim 1:12, Steve asks, What is Paul’s ‘committed thing’ God is able to keep?

He Who Is Least

July 31, 2025 by Ken Yates in Blog - Luke 9:46-48, Mark 10:45, Matthew 23:11, rewards, Servant

The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is the strongest college football conference in the United States. The national champion often comes from the SEC. Teams like Alabama and Georgia are repeat champions. Vanderbilt University is a part of the SEC. It is not known for its football prowess. Its fame is in academics. As you might guess,