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Salvation

What Does It Take to Become a Christian?

By R. Scott Clark / September 18, 2024

The way people answer the question “What does it take to become a Christian?” says volumes about what they think Christianity is. Here is a short and clear explanation.

God’s Gracious Nature

By Daniel Rowlands / June 19, 2024

God provides so much we do not deserve. What can we learn from the Bible about God’s gracious nature?

Where Did Hell Go?

By Le Ann Trees / April 23, 2024

It’s difficult to find anyone who wants to talk about hell nowadays because we think that most of us are pretty good overall. Nice people aren’t actually going to end up in some hard-to-believe-it’s-really-true everlasting lake of fire, right?

5 Reasons Every Christian Should Seek Assurance of Salvation

By Derek J. Brown / February 27, 2024

Plenty of Christians are content to walk through life without the sure knowledge that they belong to Christ. Why is assurance of salvation essential to genuine Christianity?

What Does It Mean to Be Chosen in Christ?

By Jonathan Landry Cruse / February 2, 2024

What does the apostle Paul mean in Ephesians 4:1 when he writes that God “chose us in him before the foundation of the world”?

How Much Free Will Do You Really Have?

By Daniel Rowlands / January 5, 2024

Both Christians and non-Christians point out their free will, but how free are we? Are we free to do anything? Why don’t believers use their free will to freely choose never to sin again? It’s actually not all that simple when it comes to free will.

No One Shared the Gospel with Me

By Keith Mathison / December 28, 2023

When I see young people running away from God, acting in the most offensive ways they can imagine, I see my younger self. I see lost people who are in desperate need of Christ. Why didn’t even one Christian talk to young me about Jesus?

Immanuel: The Son Revealed in the Old Testament

By Daniel Rowlands / December 25, 2023

Should we be surprised that God came in the form of a suffering servant—the man Jesus Christ, who would save his people from their sins? Let’s go back to the biblical writings a number of centuries before the incarnation.

The Four Titles of Jesus — Isaiah 9:6

By Campbell Markham / December 18, 2023

What can we learn about the character of the Great King in Isaiah 9 to help us remember what Christmas is all about?