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Must We Believe in the Substitutionary Atonement to Have Everlasting Life?

February 20, 2026 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, 1 John 2:2, atonement, Believe, Ephesians 2:8-9, Everlasting, False Gospel, Galatians 2:16, In, John 1:29, Life, regeneration, Required, Sanctification, Substitutionary, universalism

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates will answer a question about substitutionary atonement. What is the best way to present the gospel to […]

Has Christ Forgiven Unbelievers?

November 12, 2025 1 John 1:7-9, Acts 10:43, atonement, Benefits, consequences, forgive, Forgiven, Forgiveness, John 1:29, Judgment, limited atonement, Sin, TULIP, Unbelievers

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question from a listener about forgiveness. If the atonement was good for the covering […]

Does 2 Peter 2:1-3 Refer to Born Again False Teachers?

May 29, 2025 2 Peter 2:1-3, 2 Peter 2:17-21, atonement, Away, destruction, fall, False, Knowledge, righteousness, Teachers, truth, Way

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question based on 2 Peter 2:1 about false teachers and whether as false teachers, […]

What Is the Difference in the Saving Message Before and After the Cross? Also: What About People Who Never Hear About Jesus?

April 1, 2024 Accountable, After, atonement, Before, Believe, cross, Gen 3:15, Heard, Jesus, Never, promise, Rev 22:17., Rom 1:20, View

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and David Renfro are answering two questions. One is about the saving message. Is the saving message any different pre-cross and […]

How Is Jesus the Propitiation of the World? (1 John 1:5-10, 2:2, and 1 Corinthians 6:8-12)

March 23, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - atonement, Propitiation

Question How do you explain 1 John 1:5-10 and 1 Cor 6:8-12? I believe that John is speaking of salvation here. It does not seem to fit with the two-benefit view […]

Sharing the Whole Gospel

February 17, 2021 by Bob Wilkin in Blog - atonement, evangelism, Repentance

If a cluttered desk is a sign of intelligence, then I must rival Einstein. My desk is a mess. Yesterday I decided to try to clear off my desk in […]

Two Aspects of the Cross

January 1, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - atonement, Chafer, cross, limited atonement, unlimited atonement

I have started working in earnest on my next book. As a follow-up to Chosen to Serve, which dealt with the doctrine of election, my next book will show that […]

Redeemed From Futility (1 Peter 1:18-19)

June 25, 2020 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - 1 Peter, atonement, holiness, the cross

I am slowly chipping away on my book on the Free Grace alternatives to the five points of Calvinism and Arminianism. I’ve been working on the chapter about the atonement, […]

A Free Grace Response to John Owen’s Conundrum

October 30, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Arminians, atonement, Calvinism, John Owen

This past spring was one of the wettest on record. That might be why we had tons of flies around the house. As the kids ran in and out of […]

We’re All Barabbas

June 20, 2019 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - atonement, Barabbas, substitution

One of my favorite novels is Barabbas by Par Lagerkvist, winner of the Nobel prize for literature. The novel imagines what happened to Barabbas after he was released: “He was […]

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When Was Abraham Born Again, Genesis 12 or Genesis 15? (Mega Header)

I just finished working through suggestions by Philippe Sterling, Ken Yates, and Geoff Stevens on my commentary on Genesis for the upcoming Grace Old Testament Commentary, “Volume...

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When Was Abraham Born Again, Genesis 12 or Genesis 15? (Dark Header)

I just finished working through suggestions by Philippe Sterling, Ken Yates, and Geoff Stevens on my commentary on Genesis for the upcoming Grace Old Testament Commentary, “Volume...

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