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January 29, 2025

Did Jesus Want to Avoid the Cross (Part 2)?

Avoid, cross, Hebrews 13:8, Hebrews 5:7-9, Jesus, Luke 22:42, Obedience, Sin, temptation

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering and continuing a discussion about Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane. Was He trying to avoid the cross when He prayed, “Let this cup pass from me…”? Did Jesus have to learn about obedience, i.e. toward His Father? Please listen each weekday

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January 28, 2025

Did Jesus Want to Avoid the Cross (Part 1)?

Avoid, cross, Cup, deity, Flesh, Hebrews 12:1-2, humanity, James 1:15, Jesus, John 12:27, Luke 22:42, Sin, Sin Nature, temptation, wrath

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about Jesus at the end of His earthly ministry, facing the cross. Did He want to or try to avoid the cross? What clues do we have about this question from what He said? Was he struggling between His

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Context Nazi

February 21, 2024 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - baptism of Christ, Luke 4:9-13, Psalm 91, temptation

We live in a postmodern age in which truth is not only flexible; it’s non-existent. This impacts every area of our lives, including our theology. A clear example of this can occur when we discuss Bible passages. If we hear somebody quote a verse completely out of context, we might be tempted to point out

Spiritual Psychological Warfare

September 5, 2023 by Kenneth Yates in Blog - 2 Kgs 18:17-35, mind, Rom 12:1-2, Sanctification, temptation

Every war utilizes what military people call “psyops.” It is a shortened way of saying psychological operations. This psychological warfare is an attempt to get into the heads of the enemy’s soldiers. The goal is to discourage them. This would make them less effective in fighting or maybe even convince them to give up altogether.

September 8, 2020

Do We Need to “Hold On” to Eternal Life?

1 Cor 15:2, 1 Tim 6:12;17, Assurance, Doubt, temptation, Unbelief

Can you have doubt about salvation without it being labelled as “unbelief”? Bob and Shawn answer this great question in today’s broadcast. Plus, what’s the difference between holding on to assurance and holding on to eternal life? What does the Bible say we are to “hold on” to?

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The Sin Process — James 1:14-15

May 8, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Free-will, James, Sin, temptation

Why do you sin? What is the process that leads you down that path? No one causes you to sin. Not Satan. Not demons. Not God. It all comes down to your free choice. You choose to sin. But how? How does it happen? James explains it in this passage: But each one is

God and Temptation — James 1:13

April 9, 2018 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - evil, Sin, sovereignty, temptation, Westminster Confession

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt any one (James 1:13). Where does temptation come from? Apparently, James knew believers who thought it came from God. Some Christians still think that today, because of how