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How is the free gift of salvation free if you have to make a decision to receive it? Some will say this is works or we aided in saving ourselves through this decision. I think we will all agree that the salvation of the Lord is all of His doing and nothing from man, so how can it be free if we...

I was born into the IFB ranks many years ago, and I will die in the same! After I was born-again I found that I disagreed with a few things in the IFB Church. So I began searching to align with what I was certain the Scripture taught. I found in every direction I turned the differences doubled...

2 Timothy 4:6-8 "For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that...

Have you ever met another believer while out and about, and they ask what denomination you claim? It's tough being a IFB believer. I tell them I'm a Baptist. They ask, what type of Baptist? I say, I'm a independent fundamental Baptist. They ask, are you a Calvinist? By the time I explain why...

Carl Boberg, 1886 Verse 1 O Lord my God When I in awesome wonder Consider all the works Thy hands have made, I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy pow'r throughout The universe displayed! Chorus Then sings my soul, My Savior God, to Thee; How great Thou art, How great...

When the apostle Paul wrote his epistle to the Galatian Church, we see a very angry Paul. He said things that would get our accounts deleted on BB, and he said them by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Of course that doesn't mean we have the permission to say these things to one another. His...

If you're not familiar with Romans 9 in the context of TULIP, it's a favorite place where the TULIP dreamers go thinking they have proven unconditional election. But it taint so. Unconditional election denies that God in His foreknowledge looks into the future and determines His elect by free...

1 Cor. 2:1-5 "And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much...

I think we would all agree that God could have written the Scripture in a way that left no doubt as to how we are saved. But yet He allowed for the possibility of His Word to be interpreted differently on the most important topic in Scripture, our salvation. Why do you suppose He allowed...

Christ took upon Himself all the sins on mankind, even the most horrible sins committed by man. Christ dying on the Cross was a legal work according to God's law, and was mandatory, only the death of the Cross would satisfy God's law. The only way man's justification could be made possible. In...

In the book, The Life And Works of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the author, Dr. Henry D. Northrop tells personal stories from Mr. Spurgeon as he remembers them throughout this book. Some are funny and some will bring tears to your eyes. This is a funny one. Dr. Northrop recalls this story from an...