A look at why assurance can coexist with weakness and fear, because it rests on His finished work and not on the strength of your feelings.
Why The Strait Gate Is the Wrong Book for You Right Now
If a hard, searching book has left you paralyzed or passive, rather than drawn to the Savior, this essay explains why and gently turns you back toward the open door.
Universal Gospel Appeals are Everywhere in Scripture
Does the free offer of the gospel really contradict election? Tracing a thread from Genesis to Revelation, this collection shows God Himself calling all people everywhere to repent and believe — the gospel call as both genuine and universal.
A Fire That Consumes or Illumines? A Conversation with a Modern-Day Mystic/Gnostic
An extended exchange with a self-described mystic revealed a fire that consumes rather than illumines. A discerning account of modern Gnostic spirituality — its seductive language, its counterfeit light, and the true light of Christ it imitates.
Do you want to know if you’re elect or not?
The question torments many who meet the doctrines of grace. The answer is simpler than the riddle suggests: whoever believes is elect. Faith is the first and surest mark, and the only way to find out is to come.
When Reformed Experiential Preaching Goes Bad
Experiential preaching can search the heart so relentlessly that it keeps souls from Christ. A diagnosis of where heart-preaching goes wrong (delay over decision, feeling over faith) and how to recover its true warmth.
Dordt as you never knew it – Andrew Fuller
For years he held the doctrines of grace yet never dared to come to Christ — stuck, afraid of presuming, waiting to feel worthy. A footnote on Andrew Fuller named the trap exactly, and pointed the way out of it.
The Exceeding Wickedness of Not Believing in Christ
Wilhelmus à Brakel on a sin we rarely name: refusing to come to Christ. To disbelieve the gospel, he argues, is to call God a liar and despise His kindest offer — a bracing old voice on the gravity of unbelief.
But Nothing Happened
"I asked Jesus to save me, but nothing happened." Peter Jeffery answers a frustration common among those raised in the church — showing why salvation rests on God's promise received by faith, not on the feelings we expected to accompany it.
Understanding Biblical Conversion: A Balanced Approach
Is conversion a decision you make, or something you wait passively for God to do? Clearing away two common misunderstandings, this essay holds together what Scripture joins: God effectually calls, and we truly respond.