by Mike Bauer1 Titus 1:13-16 is often used to support the doctrine that good works are essential for assurance of salvation. After all, Paul speaks of those who profess to […]

by Dick Peik I assumed that good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell. I felt it was impossible to be certain where you were going when […]

According to the Lord Jesus all who simply believe in Him have everlasting life. He said, “He who believes in Me has everlasting life” (John 6:47; see also 5:24). I […]

I just received a call from a missionary in Europe asking about the Beatitudes—especially Matt 5:3 and 5:10. He’d been reading a commentator who argued that the Beatitudes were descriptions […]

by Grant Hawley In the latest two issues of Pre-Trib Perspectives (April and May 2003), Dr. Tim LaHaye quotes a Gallup Poll finding that 46 percent of American adults have […]

by Vernon K. Lockner No works, no merit of my own, would I ever dare to plead. I rest my case on Christ alone, and that He died for me. […]

Just today I was listening to a tape presented at a pastor’s conference this year.1 The speaker, a pastor of children’s ministry, cited 1 John 2:19 as proving that children […]

by Roscoe Barnes III I felt a flash of anger when I looked at a tract on the plan of salvation that I had written. What bothered me was the […]

Dave Breese was an author, speaker, friend to presidents, influential in the establishment of both AWANA and Youth for Christ, and founder of Christian Destiny, Inc. He went home to […]

In June of last year something odd happened in Loxley, Alabama. Pastor Orlando Bethel was preaching a funeral for a man who had died of prostate cancer. Pastor Bethel had […]