January 29, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - monergism, Soteriology, synergism
Rejecting the Language of Monergism and Synergism

As Free Grace people, most of us want to be strict Biblicists. We are not tied to, or at least try not to be tied to, the language of prior […]

January 27, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Assurance, Watchman Nee
Look Only at the Lord

I have a devotional by Watchman Nee called The Lord Is My Portion. In the reading for January 22nd, Nee meditates on Matt 14:30, which reads: But when he saw […]

An Elder’s Library Starter Kit

In his booklet Shepherd the Flock, Donald Norbie summarizes the qualifications of an elder, one of which is being “able to teach” (1 Tim 3:2).  The elder should be able to teach God’s Word, but to […]

January 21, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Bible study, Donald Norbie, elders
Becoming a Man of the Book

Are you an elder? Do you hope to become one? Are you trying to raise them up in your church? If so, Donald Norbie has some practical advice. In his […]

Doctrinal Emotive Behavior Therapy in 1 Thessalonians 4_13-18

On Sunday morning, I had “house church” with the kids. They liked it. We gathered together, sang a Psalm; Daphne read the Scripture (Luke 12:32-34), and we started discussing it. […]

Doctrinal Emotive Behavior Therapy

In an earlier post, I talked about what I call Doctrinal Emotive Behavior Therapy (DEBT). It is similar to Albert Ellis’s Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), but with a Biblical […]

January 13, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Arkansas, events, regionals
Free Grace in NW Arkansas

I recently spent a whirlwind day driving to Siloam Springs, in Northwest Arkansas for our first “Free Grace Evening”—basically, a mini-regional. We do one national conference a year in Dallas […]

January 6, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Grace, parenthood, young children, Zahl
Grace for Couples with Young Children

How do you live the Christian life? Or, to take a specific example, how does a married couple with young children live out grace in their new family? We all […]

Charles Parham on Tongues and Missions

I came across an interesting admission in a footnote in a book about Pentecostalism, missions, and speaking in tongues. The Topeka Outpouring of 1901, a book edited by Larry E. […]

January 1, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Grace in Focus Articles

By Shawn Lazar We believe in Free Grace Theology—which is distinct from Calvinism, Arminianism, Lutheranism, Thomism, and other -isms. But where did the term “free grace” come from? Historically, the […]

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