John 15:1-10 is a great passage of scripture. Here our Lord Jesus is speaking to his disciples as they are on the way to the garden. I think it is important for us to understand that Jesus knows his future and that he will be leaving his beloved disciples behind soon. And so he makes the statement “I am the true vine”, More on John 15, What Is So Difficult?

Great stories are told by Preachers that wish to toss away the teaching of Apostasy today. I have heard many good men, I do mean good men, go to great lengths to show how God does not mean that a believer can commit apostasy but that the apostate was really only a pretender, just someone that liked religion but never made a true confession and conversion to Christianity.

One of the favorite ways of describing these pretenders is to say that they only nibbled on salvation, they never really completely swallowed or partook of God’s Grace. More on Have You only Nibbled on Salvation?