Posts Tagged ‘Salvation’
Steps of Assurance Counseling
My last post discussed how to talk to your children about salvation. I mentioned that I spent some time at a Christian camp in southern California working with children. During my time there, I developed a worksheet that we gave to the junior camp counselors each year. This worksheet dealt with counseling campers who were…
Read MoreRepentance and Salvation
Several years ago, a couple attended the services of our church, but after a few months they stopped coming. They told me I said something in a sermon with which they strongly disagreed. What did I say that they found so troubling? I said that repentance was necessary for salvation. How is that problematic? Did…
Read MoreIt’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World!
That’ s my impression from my stroll down the main drag of Gatlinburg, TN, recently. Few people smiling or laughing. Harsh words being spoken to others, especially to children and other family members. One woman hollering out foul language because she has pulled into a blocked street and folks would not “ part the Red…
Read MoreEternity
On December 31, 1999, I, along with millions of others, was watching television early in the day as the New Year arrived in far off New Zealand and Australia. Normally, the arrival of the New Year in other countries would hold little or no interest for me. However, this was the year of “Y2K.” Everyone…
Read MoreDo This and Live: Leviticus 18:5
Leviticus 18:5 looms large in law-grace discussions. The verse states, “Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in [or, by] them: I am the Lord.” Given the Bible’s emphatic teaching that salvation is a gift, the reader naturally struggles with this verse. Is it saying…
Read MoreContention Over the Chosen
One man wrote, “Not from the world’s ‘beautiful people,’ but for the most part from the lower classes, the ‘nobodies,’ God chose those who would make up God’s new people.”1 Early on in church history, Christianity was deemed the religion of slaves, women, and children. Many unbelieving people today look at Christians as weak-minded, not…
Read MoreSalvation through Christ: The Heart of the Faith
March/April 2020 | VOLUME 30 | NUMBER 2 — The Fundamentals: Salvation [The latest FrontLine is available now online at www.fbfi.org for subscribers. Printing awaits, but we wanted you to know this edition is now available — and we want to encourage new subscriptions! — Ed.] My mother is a modern-day “Mary of Bethany.” Until…
Read MoreThe Exchange Testimony: Did I Scare Him Away?
San grew up in Vietnam, living the life of a rebel. “I have control of everything I’m doing. I am strong. I am good by myself.” At the age of 18 when North Vietnam took control of South Vietnam and communism ruled, with no money in his pocket, San got on a boat and came…
Read MoreA Constant Threat to True Faith
Returning to our regular preaching after the Christmas break, we find ourselves beginning Acts 15. This is a pivotal chapter in the book of Acts, dealing with questions that form one of the major themes of the book. The theme and the questions rise in several other New Testament passages, notably the book of Galatians.…
Read MoreThe Blessings of the Branch
Things looked bad for Israel, and even worse for Assyria. Yes, the Assyrians would invade (Isaiah 10:5-6; 36:1-2), but after they destroyed Israel, the army would meet their doom. The British poet, Lord Byron (George Gordon) described the story recorded in Isaiah 37:14-38. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his…
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