Grace in Focus

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Kathryn Wright and Ken Yates are discussing John 3:36. In the Bible, does the wrath of God usually refer to the Lake of Fire? What are the options? Thank you for listening and keep grace in focus!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Kathryn Wright and Ken Yates are talking about Luke 10 and the visit that Jesus made to Mary and Martha's house. Which is most important, serving God, or worshipping Him? Is it possible to overdo our good works of service? How can women (and men) learn balance

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are entertaining a question about belief and faith. What are the definitions? Is there really any difference between these two English words? Why do translations of the Bible use one word or the other? Also, what if you believe something based on

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question based on 2 Peter 2:1 about false teachers and whether as false teachers, they can be born again. What about these teachers that Peter is talking about? Where do they stand? Thanks for listening and keep grace in

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about Galatians 1:15. Is this a verse teaching election and/or predestination? If so, what kind of predestination is it talking about? Is this about eternal life, service, task or purpose? Please listen each weekday to the Grace in Focus

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are discussing the nature of forgiveness. Some say that it is simply letting go of offenses, that forgiveness is a one-way street, that reconciliation or restoration is a something else. Maybe a rethink is in order. What are the parameters of true

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are dealing with a question about “The law of liberty,” a phrase seen twice in the New Testament book of James. What is the definition of this term? How is it applied in the Christian's life or to the Church. Keep grace

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are responding to a question about conditions to be born again. Is there more than one condition as some teach, to acquire eternal salvation? Are contrition of heart, repentance, or obedience included conditions? Will they contribute to or subtract from the ongoing

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question to pinpoint the gift of Ephesians 2:8. The text states, “It is the gift of God… that not of yourselves.” What is the gift of God here – the “faith” to believe OR the whole idea of “saved”

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about belief related to the literal veracity of the Bible. Can a person who does not believe the Bible is literally true be assured of salvation? What are the alternatives, possibilities and pitfalls of not believing the Bible is

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Kathryn Wright and Ken Yates are fielding a question about Ephesians Six and the Armor of God. What is the “Gospel of Peace” that Paul talks about? Which gospel is Paul talking about? How do we put it on? How does it relate to peace? Thanks for

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about the relation of dispensationalism and free grace theology. What is a dispensation and why is there a relationship to free grace – i.e. why do they seem closely akin to each other? How does this relation compare

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Kathryn Wright and Ken Yates are fielding a question about something Jesus said to the rich young ruler in Matthew 19. Is Jesus telling him that keeping the commandments will give a person eternal life? Or is Jesus making a point to the contrary? Keep grace in

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Kathryn Wright and Ken Yates are answering a question about the possibility of a false conversion. If someone purportedly becomes eternally saved, but there is never any obedience to the Lord or change of life, how can we call this a genuine conversion? Is there the possibility

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Kathryn Wright and Ken Yates are answering a question from Acts 2:38. How can the Holy Spirit be said to be a gift if the works of baptism and repentance are required? What is going on in this context? What about the forgiveness of sins mentioned here? What

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Kathryn Wright and Ken Yates are answering a common question we hear about the lack of a free grace church in one's community. What can a family do about this? What are the alternatives? Thanks for listening and keep grace in focus!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Ken Yates is interviewing an attendee from our 2024 national conference. The Grace Evangelical Society holds this conference once a year during May and all are invited! It is a great time of fun, learning and fellowship, around focused free grace teaching. Please consider attending the GES

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are fielding a question about “Holding fast” in Hebrews 3:6. How are we “His house”? What is this referring to? How can we grow in confidence? Keep grace in focus!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about forgiving other believers. Should we forgive others who don't really want it? What about if they keep asking forgiveness but never change? Does forgiving include forgetting? What about trusting others who have proven to be untrustworthy? Thanks

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question from John 20:22. What did Jesus mean when He wanted them to receive the Holy Spirit, since this was before Pentecost? Also, how much did John the Baptist understand about Jesus? Tune in every weekday and keep grace in

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about unhappy or miserable believers. Why does it seem that so many Christians do not experience joy? There are certainly physical and spiritual reasons for this. Keep grace in focus!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about God's Love. Does God love every individual equally? Obviously, John 3:16 would indicate that He loves all people, but are there degrees to His love for different people? Does He love the righteous more than the wicked?

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are fielding a question about those preach or teach a false gospel. Should those who may be beginners in theology read their material? Is the risk worth the gain? What is the best way to use commentaries that may have questionable material?

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are unwrapping the meaning of the word Gospel as it appears in various places in the Bible. Does it occur in the Gospel of John? It basically means good news, but does it universally point toward a certain kind of good news?

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question from Matthew 27:52-53 which speaks about graves being opened and bodies of dead saints being raised when Jesus died or when Jesus was resurrected. Did these people rise and then die again? Or did they have glorified bodies which

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question from Peter's famous Pentecost sermon (Acts 2:34) about the disposition of David. Did David ascend into Heaven from Hades, or is he still there? What else can we learn from this passage? Keep grace in focus!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about Hebrews 3:12-14. Is it possible that this could be teaching about works salvation? Do we have to keep believing to remain saved? What is the hardness of heart, the unbelief and the deceitfulness of sin? How could

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Ken Yates and Kathryn Wright are answering a question about the chastening of God. Why does God do this? Does it happen to Christians? Is this an evidence of being born again? How far will God go in this chastening? Thank you for listening to the Grace

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Ken Yates and Kathryn Wright are discussing submitting to the Lordship of Christ. Is this a necessary step or condition for acquiring eternal salvation? Is it a part of faith? How does the Bible talk about the Lordship of Christ and where does it fit? Thanks for

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question from John 4:10, which talks about, “The gift of God.” Acts talks about “The gift of the Holy Spirit.” So, should we take it that what is mentioned in John 4:10 is also “The gift of the Holy Spirit?

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about the being a citizen of Heaven. What does it mean to be a citizen of Heaven. What did Jesus mean when he talks about this? If we are destined for the New Earth, is Heaven the same

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about prodigal people who may be depending on us financially. If children or even other people are acting out with rebellion toward God, or just being lazy, should we continue to help them financially? We invite you to

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about Bible translations. Are some translations more or less friendly to the Lordship salvation view? Are some more favorable to the Free Grace view of salvation? We will look at several passages in several translations.

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are discussing the transitional nature of believer benefits in the book of Acts. In some parts of Acts, it seems that believers don’t immediately receive the Holy Spirt, yet later they do. How do we explain this? – Thanks for listening and

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about the order of assurance and salvation. This is a question related to free grace and the content of faith for eternal salvation. What does it mean to believe for the gift of eternal life? We invite you to

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and David Renfro are answering a question about the being spiritually dead. Does this mean there is a complete inability to respond to God? If Satan is blinding people, how can they possibly come to faith without being regenerated first? This is the Calvinist position.

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and David Renfro are answering a question about circumcision. Why does it seem so much more important in the Old Testament than in the New Testament? We invite you to listen each weekday to the Grace in Focus podcast!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and David Renfro are answering a question about whether Christians should wear a cross. Can symbols be overdone? Can images even be idolatrous? How should we think about this as ambassadors for Christ?

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and David Renfro are answering why many will reject the gift of everlasting life. Why would they choose eternal torment? These are complicated questions and not easy to answer. Bob and David will discuss this with some biblical ideas that provide some guidance toward an

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Bob Wilkin and David Renfro are answering a question about assurance. Are assurance and believing always one and the same? Is assurance a result of believing? These are questions related to free grace and different positions within free grace theology. What does it mean to believe for the

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and David Renfro are answering a question about God disciplining His children. How does He do it and why does He do it? Isn't child discipline a measure of valuing children? That covers the why, but how does He do it? Have you ever experienced

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and David Renfro are answering a question about God condemning believers. Hebrews 10:26-31 talks about a punishment worse than death. What is this punishment? Is there anything worse than death? We invite you to listen each weekday to the Grace in Focus podcast!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and David Renfro are answering a question about eternal salvation in Old Testament times. How could this be possible if people were in some remote area not close to Israel? How would they hear of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah? Thank you for listening!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and David Renfro are answering a question about the beginning of the Church. Specifically, when did it begin? Was it at Acts 2 or some time earlier? When were the Apostles born again? When did they receive the Holy Spirit? Thanks for listening!

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Bob Wilkin and David Renfro are answering a question about God's presence with us. If He has promised to be with us always, and if we have the Holy Spirit permanently indwelling us, why do we sometimes pray for God to be with us? Is it Okay to

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and David Renfro are answering a question about divorce and remarriage in certain situations. The question is asked based on Matthew 19:9. What does Jesus say about it? Why is there an exception in Matthew's gospel? Please listen to this and every episode of the

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Philippe Sterling are concluding their Old Testament Messianic Thread series with a big picture summary. If you did not get a chance to hear the series, you will enjoy the previous 12 episodes. We invite you to listen each weekday to the Grace in

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Philippe Sterling are looking at the Messianic Thread in Zechariah. This Minor Prophet also paints a comprehensive prophetic portrait of Christ, both at His first advent and at His second coming – and into His eternal glory and reign. Please listen and never miss

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Philippe Sterling continue their description of this Messianic Thread as seen in the Major Prophet, Isaiah. There is an emerging picture of Christ in this book, beginning with His virgin conception to His forever expanding kingdom and government of all things. There are also

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Bob Wilkin and Philippe Sterling continue the series about the Messianic Thread. Today they are concluding their comments about the Psalms. They will demonstrate prophetic Messianic aspects of Christ's ascension, return, royalty, enthronement and others. Why is this important? Keep following this thread with us to find out.

Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Philippe Sterling are continuing a discussion of the Messianic Thread. They will begin to describe how this thread categorically weaves its way through the Psalms, and prophetically forwards to the New Testament and beyond toward future fulfillment destiny. Amazing and intriguing! Thank you for