A New Song (Revelation 14:3)
By Kathryn Wright An Intimate Setting A few years ago, my husband and I got the chance to visit Nashville, Tennessee. It was an incredible trip, where we got to walk downtown and hear music flood the streets from the honky-tonks and open mics that make the town famous. We visited the Country Music Hall […]
How Do We Know That Saving Faith Requires No Works on Our Part?
By Bob Wilkin Recently I wrote a blog entitled, “Understanding Saving Faith Is Not Like Breaking the Enigma Code.” I argued that saving faith is simply being convinced that the Lord Jesus Christ guarantees everlasting life that cannot be lost to all who believe in Him for that life. J. H. read that blog and […]
Cancer: A Holy Experience
By Marcia Hornok Alone with God I have a Holy of Holies in my home. A place where nothing interrupts my solitude with God. Neither phone calls, media messages, nor family members intrude when I enter it. Only God and I meet there daily in this Holy Place. Now I’m not an especially disciplined Christian, […]
Is “Continuous” Believing Required for the New Birth?
By Steve Elkins I really enjoyed Dan Wallace when I had him for Greek grammar. I thought he was one of the best teachers at my seminary. But presently I’m grieved that his Greek Grammar: Beyond the Basics has won the day in Evangelical schools and carries such great influence over preachers and teachers. In […]
Top 5 Overlooked Women in the Bible
By Summer Stevens The Bible is filled with fascinating accounts of women such as Deborah, Esther, and Rahab. We study these women for their faith in God despite dangerous or uncertain circumstances. Many of the Bible’s popular female characters make it into Hebrews’ “Hall of Fame,” as they should. But there are many other women […]
Why Many Puritans Died Without Assurance
By Shawn Lazar The Puritans remain immensely popular. But reading the Puritans can be dangerous for your assurance. R. T. Kendall explains why. Kendall went to Oxford to study the Puritans and was surprised by how they lacked assurance of their salvation. He explains it in the introduction to his book Grace: I went to […]
God’s Heart for Muslims
By Peter Darvoz Hating People Whom God Loves The only good Muslim is a dead one!” I was talking to a friend I met in college. Now, more than a decade later, he had become a successful businessman and was active in the local government of a thriving east Texas city. I was shocked by […]
Review: The Cost of Cheap Grace
By Shawn Willson The Cost of Cheap Grace: Reclaiming the Value of Discipleship. By Bill Hull and Brandon Cook. Colorado Springs, CO:Navpress, 2019. 256 pp. Paper, $17.99. I’ve read a lot of books on discipleship, and The Cost of Cheap Grace: Reclaiming the Value of Discipleship, by Bill Hull and Brandon Cook, was one that […]
Top 5 Habits of Hopeful People
By Summer Stevens I love to garden. At least, I love the idea of gardening. I love it when the long-awaited Baker Creek Seed catalog arrives in the mail, and I settle down on a cozy chair, dog-earing pages for exotic carrots and cauliflower that looks like broccoli. When it’s gray and dreary in the […]
The Lord’s Supper as It Was
By Shawn Lazar Here is the eminently readable William Barclay describing how the Lord’s Supper was originally celebrated: It is not in doubt that the Lord’s Supper began as a family meal or a meal of friends in a private house…It was like the Jewish Passover which is a family festival and at which the […]