PreTrib PilgrimSearch the library
Search by subject, then refine by approach. A prophecy study may also be apologetic or discerning because subject tells you what it examines, while approach tells you how it examines it.
18 results for “Conversion”
Clear searchJohn Bunyan · Spiritual autobiography · 1666
…uming that every thought, impression, or theological conclusion carries divine authority. Conversion Assurance Grace Temptation Doubt Scripture Perseverance
View recommendation →Augustine of Hippo · Spiritual autobiography and prayer · c. 397–400
…This is a spiritual classic, not an authority equal to Scripture or a template for every conversion. Augustine's later books move from autobiography into difficult reflection on memory, time, creation, and biblical interpretation, and readers will not agree with every conclusion…
View recommendation →The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
…2:10. The gospel can be stated in propositions. Those propositions are indispensable. Yet conversion involves more than agreeing that a collection of Christian sentences is correct. Through the truth God has revealed, the Spirit brings the sinner to recognise the living God, his…
Read article →The Venerable Bede · Ecclesiastical and national history · 731
…e interpreted them, comparing significant claims with modern scholarship where necessary. Conversion of England Mission Anglo-Saxons Monasticism Kings and bishops Roman and Celtic Christianity Church history
View recommendation →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
…f is removed, God is able to restore the branches. Paul does not describe their return as conversion into Gentiles or absorption into a foreign tree: "How much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?" —Romans 11:24 The words "their o…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…does not exclude an Exodus group joining highland communities, covenantal reorganisation, conversion to Yahweh or a mixed people receiving a new national identity. The “El plus Yahweh equals the later biblical God” model is one way of organising the evidence. It is not itself an…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…lief: "For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance." —Romans 11:29 The future conversion of Jewish people cannot be detached from Paul's covenant language. He identifies them as Israel and Jacob, grounds their beloved status in the fathers, and calls their coming salv…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…tion identifies real evangelical deformations—secret-key religion, escape rhetoric, elite conversion status, and churchless faith—but fails when it becomes a historical genealogy or a substitute for doctrinal argument. Imagine a Christian whose faith is assembled from prophecy vi…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…the story. Writers who spiritualised Israel's promises could still expect a future Jewish conversion. Some anticipated a rebuilt Jewish temple and a final crisis centred upon Jerusalem. Early Christian thought was not a single system. The task is therefore to trace the developmen…
Read article →Jesus and the fountain of living water
…e way. The answer is still Christ. We do not graduate from the words "come unto me" after conversion. We return to His Word, speak truthfully to Him, receive the help of His people and depend again upon the Spirit whom He has given. We are not trying to persuade an unwilling Savi…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…ually estranged from Him. Complete restoration reunites God, people, and land. The Future Conversion of Israel Romans 9–11 confirms that ethnic and national Israel has not vanished from God’s redemptive purpose. Paul identifies his “kinsmen according to the flesh” as Israelites a…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…ly heaven, Israel become only the Church, and national restoration become only individual conversion? Or does the coming of Christ guarantee the promises in all the fullness God intended? The answer must come from the texts themselves. A literal reading does not mean woodenly ign…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…e Gentiles Jews? Acts 15 decisively establishes that Gentiles do not need circumcision or conversion to Judaism in order to be saved. God is taking from among the nations “a people for his name,” and believing Gentiles are received on the basis of grace through faith. That does n…
Read article →Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…her name for Toronto. Brownsville placed a much stronger public emphasis upon repentance, conversion, and holy living. Many attendees testified to serious changes in their lives. Nevertheless, its prolonged revival meetings also included falling, jerking, moaning, weeping, dancin…
Read article →John Bunyan · Christian allegory · 1678
…ch retains Bunyan's biblical references is the best place to begin. The Christian journey Conversion Perseverance Temptation Fellowship Hope
View recommendation →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…nctuary stands among them (Ezekiel 37:15-28). The prophecy is not exhausted by individual conversion or the return from Babylon. The prophets join land and heart Ezekiel 36 gives the same pattern in direct speech. God gathers Israel from the countries, brings the people into thei…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…d of watching poorly catechised young men being presented publicly as trophies of Islamic conversion. Their testimonies could be emotionally powerful. They might speak sincerely about finding discipline, brotherhood, certainty or reverence for God. I do not doubt that many genuin…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…al covenants. The promises reach their final meaning in Christ and the Church; any future conversion of Jewish people is their entrance into the Church, not the restoration of Israel as a nation with a distinctive covenant role. That definition identifies the central claim withou…
Read article →