Why Doesn’t Philippians 2:10 Teach Universalism?
D. R. asks this important question: A couple we’ve known for many years recently admitted they are universalists. This came as quite a shock to us since they’ve been missionaries in Haiti for 30+ years with a Baptist organization. I’ve looked up some of your articles addressing universalism (which addressed most of the Scriptures they […]
Will You Go to Hell If You Don’t Share Your Faith Regularly?
B. B. asks this heartfelt question: Hi. I had a question regarding Rev 21:8. Sometimes I get fearful to approach people to share the gospel with them, and I’ll chicken out and not do it. Does this mean that I’ll be in the lake of fire for all eternity? I’ve asked the Lord to forgive […]
Is It Enough to Hope That Eternal Security Is True?
C. L. raises another important question: I have a friend I’ve witnessed to on several occasions about eternal security. He acknowledges how Scripture seems to make it clear, and he seems to believe it up to the extent that he HOPES it’s true, but then is sort of prepared for the possibility that it’s not […]
Safe Forever Versus Safe for Now
Several years before he departed this life in 2008, Zane Hodges shared with me in a letter this statement he had come up with: “There is a vast, chasm-wide difference between saying these two things: (1) You are safe for now. (2) You are safe forever.” He added that the second message “is the gospel […]
Is the Romans Road Evangelistic Approach Accurate?
I have a large collection of tracts, and very few of them actually give a clear evangelistic message. Today’s blog comes from my response to yet another tract that uses the Book of Romans. My thanks to Charles for sending it to me. The tract is called The Romans’ Map to Heaven (Romans’ Map). Charles […]
What Is a Godly Way to Complain to God?
One of my favorite things about Scripture is how people argue with God. They complain to Him about the suffering they’re experiencing. I love that because it means that we can be open about the bad things that happen to us, and the suffering we experience. In Biblical spirituality, you do not need to pretend […]
Is Repentance a Change of Mind or Heart Concerning Our Sins? Part 2
In part 1 of this blog, I discussed two authorsi who identify as Free Grace and who suggest that church history shows that repentance has been widely understood as a change of mind or heartii. In part 2 of this blog, I am considering five of the fifty-one quotes the authors favorably cite. The authors […]
Is Repentance a Change of Mind or Heart Concerning Our Sins? Part 1
Recently GES Board Chairman Brad Doskocil alerted me to two articles on repentance, by two people who self-identify as Free Grace.i They suggest that Church History shows that repentance has been widely understood as a change of mind or a change of heartii. I argued in my doctoral dissertation that in forty-four verses, repentance in […]
The Man in the Arena (Gal 1:6-8)
Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth president of the United States. Shortly after leaving office, he gave a speech that became known as “The Man in the Arena.” One of the points of the speech is that the man who takes a stand is to be admired. Often times, people are critical of the man who […]
We Want to Be Read
One of the hardest things about ministry is getting your priorities straight. It’s so easy to become focused on the wrong things, for the wrong reasons, at the expense of doing the work that needs to be done. For example, I recently read two criticisms of our ministry—one from a Lordship professor, the other from […]