The Toboggan-Rider, the To-Canada-Flyer, and the Snow-Vacationer
For the last year, I’ve been promising to take my kids to Canada. They want to see the snow. They saw some snow once—two years ago. A light sprinkling that quickly melted. But they want to see the real thing—the kind I grew up with. Two, three, four feet of it. Snow drifts so high […]
Calvinism Has a Box of Mystery Verses
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 Carnal Baptist Fellowship?
I am a Baptist. The first church I ever attended after my mom became born-again, was Baptist. It might have been too liberal, though, and mom left to attend a more conservative Open Brethren assembly (planted by this one). That’s where I was exposed to Dispensational theology. The main teaching elder at the time had […]
Confusion Abounds About How to Have Eternal Life
Beware of Misleading Blogs A reader told me about a May 20, 2018 blog by Justin Steckbauer entitled “How to Have Eternal Life.” The reader said, “After reading it I felt truly sorry for him.” I just read the blog. You can see it here. I too feel sorry for Steckbauer and for all the […]
Book Sales
Sometimes people have unrealistic expectations about book sales. Thanks to innovations in publishing technology, the number of self-published books has exploded. But sales have stagnated. The average non-fiction book sells 250 copies a year, and 2000 copies in a lifetime. That’s it. 2000 copies. Someone like Tony Evans or Andy Stanley will sell many more […]
A List of Over 100 Passages Teaching Everlasting Life by Faith Alone
In a recent blog I indicated that there are over 100 passages in the Bible which say that the one and only condition of everlasting life is believing in Jesus. That led to an email from one of our blog readers: I love your statement of “There are over 100 passages in the Bible which […]
At Peace in the Furnace
What is the cause of your anger, anxiety, worry, and frustration? If you’re like me, you often externalize the blame. You point to something external to your feelings—such as other people, or adverse circumstances—as the cause of your emotional trouble and bad behavior. Just get rid of the adversity and the mental stability will follow, […]
Do Judgment Seat of Christ Rewards Last Forever or Just 1,000 years?
In a recent blog I suggested that missed rewards would be missed forever. One person strongly disagreed and commented in response that “rewards are for time, 1000 years, not eternity.” Someone else responded to that comment with this question: “Where does the Bible tell us that rewards are just for a short time? It is […]
The Moving Option
I get weekly phone calls and emails from people seriously hungry for a Free Grace church. They don’t have one in their area, and they suffer for it. Bob and I usually encourage people to begin a Bible study at home and grow from there. But that is hard to do. Or we tell them […]
Negative Consequences at the Bema?
I received the following email: I understand the deadly consequences of unrepentant sin in this life. But I don’t get the idea of negative consequences at the Judgment Seat of Christ. What deadly consequences would there be? In 1 Cor 3:10-15 it sounds like any wood, hay, or stubble works will simply be burned up. […]