Bob Wilkin and Shawn Lazar discuss the promise of everlasting life to all who simply believe in Jesus for it, and the related yet distinct message that all who faithfully follow Christ will receive eternal rewards. They do so from a Dispensational and Free Grace perspective. New episodes are added…
The Grace in Focus podcast is a phenomenal resource for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of God's Word and the free grace perspective. Bob and Shawn work together flawlessly, delving into complex topics with the guidance of scripture. The short lessons are jam-packed with content, making every episode informative and thought-provoking. One of the best aspects of this podcast is their willingness to tackle tough topics head-on and provide thorough explanations using biblical evidence. Their commitment to diligent study of the scripture is evident, and their deep knowledge shines through in every episode.
One of the worst aspects of this podcast is that it may not appeal to everyone, as it specifically approaches topics from a free grace perspective. While this perspective can be enlightening for individuals seeking a different interpretation or understanding, it may not resonate with those who hold different theological beliefs. Additionally, the episodes can sometimes get quite technical or delve into specific Bible passages, which may be overwhelming for some listeners who prefer more general discussions.
In conclusion, The Grace in Focus podcast is an invaluable resource for those interested in learning about God's Word from a free grace perspective. Bob and Shawn's solid biblical content and explanations make each episode engaging and informative. The series on different parts of the Bible, such as Job and Deuteronomy, offers a comprehensive exploration of these texts. The Q&A episodes also provide insightful answers to listener questions. Overall, this podcast offers a wealth of knowledge and understanding for anyone seeking to deepen their faith through the study of scripture.
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Philippe Sterling are going to talk about believers “with the Lord” after this current life is over. We might call them resurrected bodies or glorified bodies. We know according to 1 John that they will be like Him, but what all does this this
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Philippe Sterling will continue the topic of Eschatology. More specifically, this episode focuses on the ultimate destiny of the unbeliever according to the Bible, while also naming and describing the alternate, opposing views. – Thanks for listening & never miss an episode of the
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Philippe Sterling are focusing on a description of Hell (as it is popularly referred to), Hades and Sheol as Jesus spoke about, and The Lake ofFire as it is in the book of The Revelation. This is one episode in the current series about
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Philippe Sterling are continuing their series about the end times. They will be teaching about the Rapture. Did you know there are at least five different views? We will give a short description of each. Please listen for a interesting discussion, and never miss
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Philippe Sterling are beginning a short theological series. This series will be about Eschatology – the study of last days or end times. Today will be an overview. Please listen to this and every episode of the Grace in Focus podcast!
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are going to talk about one of Zane Hodges' views. Did Zane believe the New Covenant is currently in effect? Is ministry in this Church age equal to the New Covenant or in light of it – what is the distinction? Please
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about Grace Evangelical Society's saving message. What do we say is the condition, and where do find support for what we believe about eternal salvation from the Bible? Thanks for listening & never miss an episode of the
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering some questions about annihilationism and how to understand the view about it biblically. Why or why not annihilationism? How should we view torment in the lake of fire? Please listen today and each weekday, to the Grace in Focus podcast!
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are discussing a verse in 1 Timothy that mentions women being saved in or through childbearing. Here is another instance where “saved” has a particular meaning. How many different views are there and how best, perhaps, should we interpret and apply this
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are discussing the word “save” in James 5:19-20. Is this about eternal salvation / condemnation? What kind of “saving of the soul” is being taught by this passage? How do we apply this truth? Please listen to this and every episode of
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are going to talk about the content of knowledge necessary to be born again. How much does a candidate for eternal salvation need to know about Jesus? What is the bullseye of the saving message? Please listen, and never miss an episode
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question relating to good works and 1 Corinthians 3:15. At the Judgment Seat of Christ, will all believers have at least some good works? Will some have zero good works? What gets consumed by the fire and what lasts?
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about repentance and the gospel of John. Perhaps the word repentance does not appear in John's gospel, but isn't the concept present in the gospel of John? Why isn't repentance required for receiving the gift of eternal salvation?
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering two questions about grace and faith. The questions are complementary. Is God's grace irresistible and Is belief a choice? If faith isn't a choice, do we really have free will? Please listen to a great discussion, and never miss an
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about the Parable of the Four Soils. Why is it that especially in the Matthew and the Mark account, only the fourth soil understands and accepts the word? Is understands and accepts equivalent to believes? – Please listen
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are going to talk about the condition(s) necessary to be born again. How many are there? The questioner suggests five conditions. These may not be the same five you've heard before. Bob and Sam will discuss these in light of scripture –
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question from 1 John 4:7-8. Do these verses imply that some of the “beloved” who are being addressed here are not saved? How can we be sure one way or the other? What does this text actually say? You
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question from a listener about forgiveness. If the atonement was good for the covering of all sin, are unbelievers, in anysense, forgiven for their sin? What are the extents of Christ's atonement? Please listen today and each weekday, to
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Ken Yates and Kathryn are answering a question about the application of Jeremiah 29:11 which is found quite often on Christian merchandise. Despite the wonderful sentiment, is it really for believers today? If it is not for us, why is it not and what should we do
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Ken Yates and Kathryn Wright are answering a question about the transitional nature of the New Testament book of Acts. When was Cornelius saved? Is it possible that he, like others in the book of Acts, received the Holy Spirit some time after he was saved? What
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Ken Yates and Kathryn Wright are going to talk about a phrase used by some Christian teachers. The Phrase is: “No Fruit, No Root” … or “No Root, No Fruit.” What is meant by this? Where does it come from? Is it a valid teaching? Is fruit
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Ken Yates and Kathryn Wright are answering a question from Isaiah about a salvation that is without cost. Is he talking about eternal salvation? And who is he talking to? What possibilities might there be? – Thanks for listening & never miss an episode of the Grace
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Ken Yates and Kathryn Wright are answering a question from a John 20:23. What is the “forgiving” and the “retaining” of sins that Jesus is talking with His disciples about? Please listen today and each weekday, to the Grace in Focus podcast!
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Philippe Sterling and Sam Marr are answering a question about believers and self-defense. Romans 12:19 – “Beloved, do not avenge yourselves…” – what does this mean? Should trusting God to protect us just be passive? What is God's role and what is ours? What is the difference
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Philippe Sterling and Sam Marr are answering a question about worship. How should we worship the Lord? Actions, thoughts, words, emotions, conversations, music, tears, demonstration, giving, devotion – which weighs the heaviest? What does it mean to “Worship God in spirit and in truth?” Please listen to
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Philippe Sterling and Sam Marr are answering a question about the criteria for knowing if someone else is saved. Obviously, God knows who is saved, but is it possible for us to know about someone else's salvation status? What is the proof, if any, of eternal salvation?
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Philippe Sterling and Sam Marr are answering a question about hearts that have been hardened. Can some hearts become so hard that they get beyond the possibility of eternal salvation? Can hearts be too hard to be able to believe for eternal salvation? If someone is personally
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Philippe Sterling and Sam Marr are answering a question from a Exodus 20:5-6, a reference about the sins of the father being passed to the third and fourth generation. What does this mean and how does this happen? How does grace interface with or relate to this
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are continuing a discussion from last episode — Did Jesus pay the penalty for our sins? What does the death of Christ accomplish? What do John 1:29 and 1 John 2:2 teach us? What are the benefits of Christ's death? What does
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about death, spiritual death, life and sin's penalty. Did Jesus pay the penalty for our sins through His death on the cross? What does it mean to be “Made alive together with Christ?” Please listen to this and
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about the pool of Bethesda mentioned in John 5:4. Was there an actual angel who periodically stirred the waters to give healing as described in this verse? Or was this some other phenomena that people just mystically believed
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a few questions about the distinction between the church and Israel. What is replacement theology? Has the New Testament church replace Israel? What is God's plan for Israel? Why is it important to think biblically about Israel today? Thanks for
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question from a father of four children about the age of accountability. Is there an age of accountability? Is it a specific age or does it depend on a person's ability to understand the concept of eternal salvation? What
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about repentance. Is repentance merely a change of mind? Are there any verses in the Old or New Testament that say repentance is in any way required for or connected to eternal salvation? Please listen for a great
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question from Romans 11:6, which is in the section of Romans where Paul is dealing with Israel. Is this verse parallel to Ephesians 2:8-9 or Galatians 2:16? All the passages in question refer to faith, works, justification, salvation, etc.
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about joy. Nehemiah said, “The joy of the Lord is your strength…” What is “the joy of the Lord?” How do I get the joy of the Lord? What if I don't feel this joy for a long
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a few questions about the end times. Some of the questions have to do with Satan, his incarceration, his final defeat and the whys of the timing of these events. Also, who is included in “the dead in Christ?” Thanks
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a few questions on the topic of assurance. Why is it – or how is it that we often assert that “Assurance is of the essence of saving faith?” How do we harmonize Salvation verses and passages about abundant living?
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question from a listener. This is about Paul Washer, who is an extreme Lordship Salvation preacher. The questionerclaims that Paul Washer only uses the words that Jesus uses. How then could we claim that his gospel is false? Please
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering two questions. One is from 1 Corinthians 15:1. What does it mean to Stand? Is it about maintaining eternal salvation orabout standing steadfastly in the Christian faith by the power of Christ's death, burial & resurrection? A second is from
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question from Galatians 6 and about if works play some role in the acquiring of eternal salvation. Does this passage teach a works-based salvation? – Please listen, and never miss an episode of the Grace in Focus Podcast!
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about a Muslim pleasing his parents who are against his conversion to Christianity. What is the balance between pleasing God and obeying parents especially as a young dependent teenaged person? Thanks for listening & never miss an episode
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Philippe Sterling are answering a question about John the Baptist, baptism, repentance and remission of sins. Was this about a national or an individual relationship with God? Please listen today and each weekday, to the Grace in Focus podcast!
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are once again answering one of your questions. In regard to the prodigal son, why did his father tell his brother about the prodigal having died and come back to life, if the story Jesus told about the prodigal does not support
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question from 2 Thessalonian 1:8 about obeying the gospel. In this verse, is knowing God equivalent in meaning to obeying the gospel? How perhaps are they referring to the same thing yet different? Please listen to this and every
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about the belief by some that acquiring eternal salvation is a two-step process. Believing facts would be step one and trusting personally would be step two. Does the Bible in any way teach this? Why is this taught?
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about faith. Does Romans 12:3 support that saving faith is a gift? (i.e.) Some say that the unbeliever cannot believe unless God gifts faith to that person. How does the context of Romans chapter twelve support or not
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about hyper-grace. What is hyper-grace? What is the difference between free grace and hyper-grace?Please listen today and each weekday, to the Grace in Focus podcast!
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering one of your questions. What about future sins? Are they already forgiven? Are there different kinds of forgiveness?Please listen, and never miss an episode of the Grace in Focus Podcast!
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about God's will related to a tragedy, such as murder. What is God's will? What is God's sovereign will and what about His moral will? What about God's will in regard to sin and human choice? Please listen
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Today, Bob Wilkin and Ken Yates are answering a question about God repenting in the Old Testament. What did God turn from? God didn't sin did He? Can God change His mind? Please enjoy, and never miss an episode of the Grace in Focus Podcast!
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