For many years I believed the doctrines of grace and revered the authority of Scripture, and never understood the gospel. Even when I started to understand the Gospel, I still hadn’t come to Christ. Not with saving faith. I was stuck. Waiting for a deeper conviction of sin. Waiting to feel worthy of coming. Afraid of presumption. Afraid of being a false convert. Afraid of coming the wrong way...
Author Attribution: Wilhelmus à Brakel, The Christian’s Reasonable Service The Exceeding Wickedness of not Believing in Christ Sixthly, if you do not come and believe in Christ, you commit the most abominable of all sins, with the exception of the sin against the Holy Ghost and the express act of blasphemy towards God, for the following reasons: 1. You deem the true God to be a liar. “He...
This article is the first in a series of excerpts from a short free book [1]by the same title, written by Bill Tanis and Paul Greendyk. In future issues we will insert more selections on how the hypercalvinistic errors show up and their consequences. Download a copy to understand more about this topic, and to equip yourself to evangelize to people who are near the narrow gate (Matthew 7:13) but...
The Dutch theologian Alexander Comrie has a wonderful little book called “The A.B.C. of Faith” which describes several biblical metaphors for saving faith. Excerpted from The ABC of Faith by Alexander Comrie We should now proceed to the letter I, but we have been unable to find any particular descriptions of faith under this letter in the Dutch language. Under the letter K several...