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God's Invitation and Offer of Salvation

video March 26, 2010

You are made for a person and a place. Jesus is the person. Heaven is the place.

If a Person Enters into a Relationship with Jesus Christ, Shouldn’t There Begin a Transformation in Their Life?

article March 26, 2010

It is quite amazing how often the term “legalism” comes up when there is a serious discussion about obedience or its result, holiness. 

If No One Seeks after God Unless God Draws Him and Grace Is Always Effective, then How Can Some Folks Be in the Church (the Tares) and Not Be Saved?

article March 26, 2010

I think the key may be that there are different kinds of seeking spoken of in Scripture.

If We Are Covered in the Blood of Jesus, Cleansed from Unrighteousness by Faith, How Does Revelation 21:8 Fit with the Overall Gospel?

article March 26, 2010

This verse must be understood by taking into account the verses around it, and the book as a whole.

How Do We Not “Live in Sin” and How Is It Measured?

article March 19, 2010

While we believe in a salvation that is secure, bought and paid for by Christ alone and not by our works, we do not subscribe to the fire insurance/cheap grace/easy believism notion that all who raise a hand or repeat a prayer at one moment in their lives are automatically truly born again.

How Do You Know Whether or Not Someone Who Is Homosexual and Claims to Know Jesus Is Truly a Christian?

article March 19, 2010

Question from a reader:

How do you know whether or not someone who is homosexual and claims to know Jesus is truly a Christian? You say at the end of your article about the End of the Spear controversy, “How I would love to one day embrace actor Chad Allen as my brother.” How do you know he is not your brother already? Because he is gay? I am a Christian and am gay myself. The fact that he happens to be gay is so incredibly insignificant. P. S. I’m also always perplexed by the term “gay activist” since ...

Some Thoughts on Eternal Security and the Arminian and Calvinist Positions

article March 18, 2010

The biblical evidence is substantial for both the Arminian and Calvinist positions. John Wesley and Charles Finney were great men of God who took the Arminian position. John Calvin and Charles Spurgeon were great men of God who took the Calvinist position. It is not stupid or immoral or faithless to take either position.

Sin, Blame & Forgiveness

article March 16, 2010

There is little we can do about the sins others do to us, other than forgive them. There is much we can do about our sins against God and others—confess and repent and embrace the forgiveness of God and call on his power to live differently.

Could Jesus Have Failed in His Mission to Redeem Us?

article March 16, 2010

An orthodox understanding of the deity of Christ compels us to say he could not have failed in his mission. Indeed, if he could have failed, he is not all powerful and therefore he was not and is not God.

Sexual Abuse Can Be an Obstacle to Salvation

article March 9, 2010

Becoming a Christian makes a person clean. However, if the dirtiness that a person feels is not a result of her actions then it is hard to really feel like you’ve been forgiven.