Category: Soteriology

The Gospel Fundamentals

When I first became a believer I made the mis­take of includ­ing every the­o­log­i­cal con­vic­tion in my “gospel,” but as Paul says clearly to the Gala­tians: “I am amazed that you are so quickly desert­ing Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a dif­fer­ent gospel; which is really not another; only there are some who are […]

The Essential Christian Beliefs

One of the great­est strug­gles in the Chris­t­ian faith is clearly defin­ing what exactly one must believe in order to be saved and a mem­ber of Christ’s church. There is much con­fu­sion, espe­cially in our post­mod­ern, rel­a­tivis­tic cul­ture, that to be a “Chris­t­ian” becomes leaner and leaner. When this accu­mu­lates, then all of the sud­den Christians […]

Events Preceding the Second Coming

The idea of the sec­ond com­ing has become some­thing of Chris­t­ian folk­lore, because many Chris­tians have their the­ol­ogy of the sec­ond com­ing effected by news­pa­pers, other believ­ers, and seem­ingly every­thing except the Scrip­tures. The New Tes­ta­ment teaches that three main events will hap­pen before the return of Christ to sep­a­rate the wheat from the tares, […]