I've written some posts over the years about belief in eternal security before the Reformation . Contrary to what's often asserted b...

"And I recall times of them wanting to do something I disapproved of. They would ask, 'What's wrong with it?' With this tex...

Scripture likens believers to soldiers (Philippians 2:25, 2 Timothy 2:3-4, Philemon 2). And we're often told that we're pilgrims pas...

In a post several weeks ago discussing some support for eternal security found in Jerome , I mentioned that I was waiting for the publicatio...

In the ninth century, Rabanus Maurus wrote:

"We are, indeed, desirous, as we ought to be, that our ministry may prove salutary to the world…If, to punish, partly the ingratitude, ...

I wrote a post about the subject in 2007 . Below are links to my recent series on the topic. I expect to add further links to this page in t...

Jerome wrote, regarding Jovinian, a monk who was a contemporary: "He endeavours to show that 'they who with full assurance of fai...

In his translation of Augustine's work cited in my last post , Gregory Lombardo wrote the following about some of the individuals August...

My last post mentioned that Augustine wrote against some advocates of eternal security in his day. See, for example, section 21:17-27 in Th...

A documentary arguing against eternal security recently came out. It's mainly about the Biblical evidence, but it makes some comments a...

"John [the Baptist] was the last of the goodly succession of prophets and righteous men who had faithfully sown the seed of the word of...

"If we derive our motives for Christian labor or stedfastness from the things which we see, our spirit will oscillate from ardor into c...

"What they build with one hand they pull down with the other. Sad that it should be so. I must confess I find it far easier to climb th...

"I see exceeding small fruit of my ministry, and would be glad to know of one soul to be my crown and rejoicing in the day of Christ. T...

"Let us then, when we desire to effect any thing great and noble, not regard this, the greatness of the labor which it brings, but let ...

"And that thou mayest learn, consider Paul, I pray thee. What is there fearful that he did not suffer, and that he did not submit to? B...

"Beloved, our condition needs much endurance; and endurance is produced when doctrines are deeply rooted. For as no wind is able by its...

" Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life (Prov. 4:23). The heart of man is his worst part before it i...

Last year, I wrote about how to grow as a Christian . In addition to my own comments, the post links some remarks Steve Hays made on a relat...