You are riding on a bus through the Andes. The road is as wide as a fat donkey, but little more! The driver speeds like this is NASCAR and the drop to your right is a doorway to eternity. How do you feel? Or — you’ve worked hard on a project, but your boss is…
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Is Obedience Just Legalism?
Is obedience just legalism? Saving faith is trust in Jesus. No believer will argue with that. John 3:16 says, “Whoever believes in him has eternal life.” Either that statement stands as it is, or we must qualify it in some fashion. But the Bible does not qualify it. Furthermore, the Bible makes an open invitation…
Is Your Confession of Faith More Than Just Words?
The questions concerning the Lordship of Christ, and whether surrender of our lifestyle in submission to Christ is necessary in order to be saved, is inexorably tied with how we understand words like “repentance,” “faith,” “works righteousness,” “lawlessness” and a host of other biblical terms. Some readers might wonder if I’m just outlining a fairly…
Is Your Faith Genuine?
How important is our growth into holiness? I have noticed over the years that the question of holiness continues to occupy the thoughts of many Christians. Some, arguing for justification by grace alone through faith alone have put the issue of holiness, or sanctification, into the important-but-not-necessary-for-our-faith category. Others insist holiness is necessary, and that…
On Justification by Faith
There has been a crisis in the evangelical world over what is perhaps the single most important issue of Christianity – justification by faith alone. With this crisis has come a lack of clarity over the most central question: “What must I do to be saved?” Indeed, the confusion over what constitutes salvation is profound.…
Original Sin, the Human Dilemma, and the Only Hope for Mankind
In my radio broadcast, I have been discussing the wrath of God revealed from heaven against the unrighteousness of men. Romans 1 and 2 discuss specific deeds of sin, and reflect the reality that all men and women are without excuse. But behind those truths stand the larger truths of inherited sin, or that we…
A New Dawn: Transmitting God’s Word on the Air
I am learning to settle into my new role at Back to the Bible Canada. Of course that means getting to know the staff here, and learning the art of communicating on radio, a medium where I am unable to see my audience. I’m also struck with the dawning realization that I will be preaching…
