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God’s Not Really That Holy, I’m Not Really That Bad

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  • Tim Challies

When you are taken in by the amazing grace of God, you know that you have come to believe the gospel that unmasks illusions like the one in the title. This article expands on the matter.

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When Your Goodness Goes Splat

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  • Tim Challies

Why is it that our good works are never enough? The answer is God's standard of holiness. The article explains.

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All of Grace

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  • Alan D. Strange

Our salvation is through grace alone. This article discusses the order of salvation, focusing on the work of the Holy Spirit.

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All of Grace

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  • Peter Jeffery

This article shows how through love, mercy and grace God planned and provided salvation for us. Our salvation is completely dependent upon the merits of Christ.

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Irresistible Grace

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  • Cornelis Pronk

This article is about salvation and the doctrine of irresistible grace. 

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Wrights, Rites and Rights

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  • Gary Fisher

This article is about salvation and works, and salvation through grace.

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The Gain Motive of Christian Service

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  • Philemon Bungansa Nfor

This article looks at bad gain motives (rewards) and good gain motives in the Christian life.

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Returning to the Gospel of Grace

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  • Gary R. Cox

What do you do if you have lost your Christian joy trying to obey God? Do we only need grace in the beginning of our Christian life?

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Perspectives on Grace

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  • Al Macleod

This article offers some thoughts on grace.

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Everything for Nothing

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  • Arthur van Delden

This article is about free grace and salvation as a free gift from God.

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Grace and Judgment

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  • Bas Luiten

For us to understand grace, we need to understand the reality of the judgment. The trumpets of the end time are already sounding.

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Three Signs You Hold an Unbiblical View of Grace

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  • Christian McArthur

What is your understanding of the grace of God? Many people have a flawed view of grace, suggesting that grace saves them but the rest of their path depends on their efforts. The article describes three things that reveal you may be holding an unbiblical view of grace.

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Sometimes Jesus Lets People Walk Away

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  • Jonty Allcock

This article considers the account of Mark 10:17–22, where the Lord Jesus teaches that our work is never enough to earn eternal life. The first step on the road to joyful obedience  is to acknowledge that we cannot keep the commands of Christ perfectly.

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Ten Things You Should Know about Irresistible Grace

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  • Sam Storms

Irresistible grace concerns the process by which God brings the elect to saving faith in Jesus. What does it mean that the grace of God is irresistible? This article explains ten things you need to know about irresistible grace.

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Ten Things You Should Know About Grace

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  • Sam Storms

What is God's saving grace? Starting from the definition of the grace of God, this article offers ten points about this grace.

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Good People Don't Go to Heaven

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  • Leah Baugh

Do good people go to heaven? This article evaluates this idea, showing that "good" people do not go, given what it means to be good and the fact that your righteousness deserves hell.

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Six Types of Grace

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  • Paul David Tripp

What are words that explain the grace of God? This article mentions and considers six types of grace: forgiveness, acceptance, presence, enablement, freedom, and completion.

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Grace’s Humbling Necessity

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  • Philip G. Ryken

The Christian life is a life dependent on the grace of God. Based on Luke 18:10-14, this article shows why we need God's grace.

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Grace 101

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  • Sean M. Lucas

Why is Christianity all of grace? Because the gospel of the grace of God is not just for the beginning of the Christian life, but for the whole of it.

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We Are Not Saved By Grace

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  • Michael Reeves

The phrase is not "we are saved by grace", but rather "we are saved by grace alone". This article shows, through a look at the work of John Bunyan, how adding the word 'alone' makes all the difference.

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The Doctrines of Grace

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  • Charles M. Wingard

This article looks at the five points of Calvinism (TULIP) and salvation through grace alone.

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On the Grace of God – It's Grace All the Way

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  • Justin S. Holcomb

This chapter wants to demonstrate from Ephesians 2:1-11 how the grace of God perseveres with his children.

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The Bible teaches that Adam produced death. The opposing view has to say that in some manner death produced Adam. Douglas Wilson
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