Dan Greenfield

Category: Salvation

  • Amish Beliefs about Salvation

    This is a good summary about Amish beliefs concerning Bible study, what makes Amish “Amish,” why most stay Amish, and their reasons for not actively seeking to spread the gospel.  

  • Following Christ

    Is it your earnest desire to do all in your power to advance his cause and glory? Can you renounce every worldly object for Christ? If so, happy are you. But if not, your case is dreadful indeed. —Memoir of Harlan Page (p. 53), letter dated August 7, 1818

  • Amish Ordnung

    Last fall I concluded the study of What the Bible Teaches About Salvation with an introduction to and overview of what the Amish believe about salvation. In that lesson I briefly discussed the ordnung. This morning I read this and thought it an interesting and helpful explanation from an Amishman:…

  • Jehoshaphat

    2 Chronicles 17-20 relates the reign of King Jehoshaphat over the Southern Kingdom. He was a godly king who sought the Lord and did much to encourage the people he led to also seek the Lord. You will do well by carefully reading this account to learn what is involved…

  • Genealogy Gem #1

    I use Robert Murray McCheyne’s Bible reading guide for my personal Bible reading, and am presently working through the genealogies in 1 Chronicles. Let’s be honest–we don’t usually think of these passages of Scripture as sources for Christian devotion and encouragement, do we? Yet we need to remember some important…

  • Psalm 109 quote

    I’m speaking on Psalm 109 tonight for our Bible study, but just read a great quote– Though they hated and persecuted him for his religion, yet he kept close to it; they laughed at him for his devotion, but they could not laugh him out of it. —Matthew Henry’s Commentary,…

  • The Faith Chapter

    Hebrews 11 is a favorite chapter of many Christians–it defines faith (v. 1) and illustrates faith (the rest of the chapter). Why is this chapter where it is in the letter though? What is its purpose? In other words, what is the context in which it needs to be correctly…

  • God’s Chosen Instrument

    On pp. 17-18 of Lectures on Revivals of Religion Sprague notes the first of three indications of a genuine revival of religion, viz., that genuine revival is brought about by Scriptural means. As God’s Word is the only rule of both faith and practice, those who seek to do God’s…

  • Revivals of Religion

    In William Sprague’s book, Lectures on Revivals of Religion, he begins the subject’s treatment by giving a general definition of “revival”– special occasions on which the agency of the Spirit would be signally manifest (p. 2) With respect to revivals of religion, Sprague then gives an excellent paragraph on the…

  • He Got Saved!

    (Continuing from yesterday…) The diligent and faithful use of the word of God, as the rule of judgment, would have an influence peculiarly important in regard to those who have just begun to attend to the subject of religion. Take the case of a sudden conversion. One who has long…

  • Am I Elect?

    Good counsel from George Whitefield concerning ascertaining whether one is of the elect– That great man, Dr. Isaac Watts, who was called the sweet singer of Israel, says, ‘We should go first to the grammar school of faith and repentance, before we go to the university of predestination.’ Whereas the…

  • Whitefield the…Arminian? Say It Isn’t So!

    Preeminent evangelist of the first Great Awakening, George Whitefield (1714-1770), has grown to be a “hero” of sorts for me over the last decade. His life has challenged me to be more active in the Lord’s harvest field, especially since my family gave me Dallimore’s two volume biography of the…

  • Love & Holiness

    These two characteristics are often pitted against each other. This should not be. Both are essential. While I believe wholeheartedly that holiness is God’s governing attribute, this far from excludes the exercise of love. In fact, one of Paul’s prayers for the Thessalonians demonstrates that in the Christian life love…

  • Election as Our Motivation for Thanksgiving

    At Orwell Bible Church, which I pastor, each week we put out a little booklet called, “This Week’s Walk with the Lord.” Most of my thoughts on biblical passages that I record here are the result of my daily Bible reading from that booklet. This morning I read 1 Thessalonians…