On two different occasions recently, I have read and heard Spurgeon’s story of the Scottish “fishwife” carrying a basket of fish while an eager young man challenged her about spiritual things. When he compared her “burden” of fish to Bunyan’s…
As we continue our series (part 1, part 2) on assurance, we come to four basic details about it that are so important to consider. It is possible for a Christian to have an assurance of his salvation. We…
We continue our series on the blessed but difficult subject of assurance of salvation (see part 1). Assurance or certainty about a truth in general may come in various ways, such as seeing or hearing something with your eyes and ears,…
Paul commands us, “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” (2 Cor. 13:5). It is a responsibility of…
