Why It Matters That Hebrews Was Written to Believers
By David Janssen Because the epistle to the Hebrews is a challenging book to understand, many believers today don’t take the time and effort to mine its rich truths. One reason it has become difficult to understand is the debate concerning whom Hebrews was written to.1 Many view Hebrews as a message that was written […]
Clarity in Evangelism for Baptists
Baptists need to do some soulsearching about our search for souls. We (I am a Baptist myself) love talking about Jesus. We emphasize evangelism. But we aren’t always clear when we present the gospel. We all know that some ways are clearer than others, but how do we tell the difference? How to Present the […]
Affliction
The world is full of trouble. It comes to everyone. But in the book of Romans, Paul tells us that there is an important difference in how affliction operates in the life of a believer and how it operates in the life of an unbeliever. Someone who believes in Jesus Christ for eternal life can […]
Q&A
By Bob Wilkin Q : Paul so often talked about the freeness of salvation. He wanted us to know that if works of any kind are added to belief then that is not salvation. Paul went to great effort to show the clear contrast between works and grace. But I do not see Jesus doing […]
Salvation in Romans
In everyday English, the words save and salvation refer to a wide range of deliverances. The same is true in the Bible. Both in the Old Testament (written in Hebrew) and in the New Testament (written in Greek), the words save and salvation refer to many types of deliverance and not just to deliverance from […]
Salvation And Rewards
By C. I. Scofield1 The New Testament Scriptures contain a doctrine of salvation for the lost and a doctrine of rewards for the faithful services of the saved. And it is of great importance to the right understanding of the Word that the student should clearly make the distinction between these. What that distinction is […]
Evaluated by Christ: What the Military Taught Me about the Bema
By Ken Yates, Lt. Col. (ret.) One Judgment or Two? Many people believe that all of mankind will one day stand before God in a final judgment. At this judgment, God will either cast each person into the lake of fire, or allow them into His Kingdom. This appears to be the majority opinion of […]
We Believe in Rewards
Among the very last recorded words of our Lord Jesus Christ are these: “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work” (Rev 22:12; italics added). This is a clear and definitive statement on the subject of rewards by the Lord Himself. Not […]
What Did the Lord Jesus Mean When He Spoke of Entering the Kingdom?
At our April 2013 conference an issue came up in one of the workshops that grabbed my attention. What does the expression entering the kingdom mean in the Lord’s teachings in the Gospels? The workshop was an interactive session. The participants were given a list of all the entering the kingdom passages in the Gospels […]
The Rich Entrance and the Idle Workers (2 Pet 1:8-11 & Matt 20:1-16)
Have you ever noticed the similarity between Matt 20:1-16 and 2 Pet 1:1-11? I didn’t at first. Of course, Peter was one of the recipients of Jesus’ teaching in Matt 20:1-16 (see Matt 19:27-30). In fact, it is the question Peter posed to Jesus (Matt 19:27) that prompted Jesus’ response in the succeeding verses. We […]