Scheduling Bob to speak at your church or conference

Bob regularly speaks around the world. We ask that the host church or conference pay his expenses if at all possible. An honorarium is optional. If you would like to schedule Bob to speak at your church, please email us at ges@faithalone.org. 

A list of some of Bob's favorite sermons and seminars is given below.

Bob's favorite sermons:

 

1.      Keep your eyes on the prize. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27.

2.      I Wish We’d All Been Ready. 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11.

3.      The Best Is Yet to Be. Revelation 21-22.

4.      Faith Without Works Is Dead (Unprofitable). James 2:14-17.

5.      You Can Be Sure. John 11:25-27.

6.      Fellowship with the Father is better than anything the world offers. Luke 15:11-32.

7.      Why not live like the devil? (First Timothy 4:8).

8.      Hold On: Promised Righteousness Is Coming Soon. 2 Peter 3:1-18.

9.      Endure by Being Strong in His Grace. 2 Timothy 2:1-13.

10.  Gaining your life by losing your life. Matthew 16:24-27.

11.  If Anyone Is in Christ, He’s Part of a New Creation (2 Cor 5:17 ).

12.  The Best Thing about You Is You Are an Ambassador for Christ (2 Cor 5:18 -21).

13.  Let him be accursed? Galatians 1:6-9.

14.  The two ways: Make sure you’re on the right road. Proverbs 4:10-19.

15.  How well are you heeding the Word of God? Luke 8:11-18.

16.  Eternal security is good news. Selected Scriptures.

17.  What’s the Purpose that Drives Your Life? 2 Corinthians 5:9-11.

18.  Whatever you sow, you reap. Galatians 6:6-10.

19.  Not everyone who says “Lord, Lord” will enter. Matthew 7:21-23.

20.  You will know them by their fruits. Matthew 7:16, 20.

21.  Is your life an example for other believers? 1 Timothy 4:12.

22.  Believer, beware of falling from grace. Galatians 5:4.

23.  Don’t Support the Bad Guys. Second John.

24.  Do Support the Good Guys. Third John.

25.  Blessings or Cursings: Which Do You Want? (Leviticus 26)

      26.  Don’t Touch the Ark : Doing Things His Way (1 Chronicles 13:5-14; 15:1-2, 12-15)

27.  Don’t Even Let a Man of God Deter You from Obeying God (1 Kings 13:1-32)

28.  Be Valiant for the Truth (Jeremiah 9:1-6).

 

      Bob has preached through John, 1-2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, 1-3 John, and Galatians, to mention a few. He has sermons on each passage in these books.

 Bob's favorite seminars:

 Conferences/Seminars On Multiple Topics

1. How to Share the Gospel Clearly.

2. How to Be Sure You Have Eternal Life (alternate title, You Can Be Sure).

3. Why Obey God If I’m Sure I’m Secure?

4. A Biblical Reply to Lordship Salvation.

5. Understanding Difficult Passages in Light of the Simple: A Key to Bible Study.

 

 Conferences/Seminars On Single Topics

1. Assurance: All of the Chapters in Bob's book Secure and Sure can be sessions in a conference. The following are 5 suggested sessions:

            A. You Can Be Sure (John 11:25-27)

            B. The Current Crisis in Assurance

            C. Good Works Are Not Indispensable for Assurance

            D. Assurance and False Professors

            E. Assurance and First John

 

2. Tough Texts on:

            A. Saving Faith (John 8:30 -31; Luke 8:13 ; James 2:19 )

            B. Assurance (2 Cor 13:5; Matt 7:21 -23; Phil 3:11 )

            C. Eternal Security (Gal 5:4; Heb 6:4-8; John 15:6)

            D. Perseverance (Matt 24:13; John 10:27 ; 1 John 3:9)  

            E. Eternal Rewards (Matt 10:32 -33; Matt 16:24 -27; Gal 6:7-9)

Note: each of the above referenced passages could be a single session

 

3. Eternal Rewards. All of the Chapters in Bob's book The Road to Reward can be sessions. The following are 5 suggested sessions:

            A. It Is Vital to Know the Difference Between Salvation And Rewards

            B. Judged According to Their Works

            C. The Judgment Seat of Christ: Just an Awards Ceremony?

            D. Two Types of Rewards: Instant Winners and Perseverance Prizes

            E. Passive and Active Inheriting of the Kingdom

 

4. How to Share the Gospel Clearly

            A. Keep It Simple: Tell Them to Believe.

            B. The Call to Discipleship Is Not Evangelistic.

C. Gospel Appeals and Illustrations to Avoid.  

D. Focus on Eternal Life.

E. A Closer Look at the Romans Road .

 

5.  All about repentance.

Few New Testament subjects are more difficult than this one. What is the place of repentance in salvation? Is justification by faith alone or by faith plus repentance? Special consideration will be given to the fact that in the only evangelistic book in the entire Bible, the Gospel of John, the words repent (metanoia) and repentance (metanoeo) do not occur at all. It will be shown that justification is indeed by faith alone and that repentance is not an additional condition. Rather, it is either synonymous with faith (i.e., a change of mind about Christ is synonymous with believing in Him) or it is not a condition of salvation at all (i.e., it may be a condition of fellowship with God). (Note: this was the subject of Bob’s doctoral dissertation at Dallas Seminary.)

 

6. What eternity will be like?

      In this seminar the eternal future of believers and unbelievers will be considered in light of Scripture. Believers will spend eternity on the new earth with physical bodies and unique personalities (Revelation 21-22). Each believer’s experience in the kingdom will be unique. Some will rule with Christ and some will not (Luke 19:11-26; 1 Cor 9:24-27; 2 Tim 2:12; Rev 2:26 ; 3:21 ). Some will have abundance of life and some will not (John 10:10b; Gal 6:7-9).

      Both believers (at the Judgment Seat of Christ) and unbelievers (at the Great White Throne Judgment) will be evaluated according to the works they did in this life, to determine the degree of joy or suffering they will respectively experience in eternity. Since this life is but a vapor, and since how we live now will affect the quality of our eternal experience, it only makes sense that we live each day in light of eternity.

 

7. The book of Galatians: The charter of Christian liberty.

      This seminar addresses the problems of works salvation and legalism and demonstrates that the current gospel controversy is nothing new. Even the apostles faced these same issues. The Book of Galatians is overviewed and six key passages are explained: 1:6-9; 2:11 -21; 3:1-14; 5:1-6; 5:16 -26; and 6:6-10. Discussion will include consideration of the anathema against false messages of modern-day Judaizers, the defection of Peter and Barnabas, the exchanged life, justification by faith, falling from grace, inheriting the kingdom, and reaping everlasting life as a reward.

 

8. The Reformed Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints.

            According to the Westminster Confession of Faith and Reformed thought, the eternal security of the believer and the perseverance of the saints are two related, but clearly distinct, ideas. In this view, a believer’s eternal destiny is tied to his perseverance in the faith. This teaching is devastating to Christians. Ultimately everyone loses assurance under perseverance teaching because no one lives a perfect life in the present and no one can be sure that he or she will persevere in the future. Perseverance must be uncoupled from eternal security to avoid the trainwreck that will surely occur as believers are demoralized by legalism. This seminar will explain why the many biblical exhortations to perseverance (for example, Galatians 6:9; Colossians 1:21 -23; 2 Timothy 2:12 ; Revelation 3:5) are linked to eternal rewards and not to eternal salvation.

 

9. Lordship Salvation

            Before he went to be with the Lord, J. Vernon McGee identified Lordship Salvation as one of the greatest problems facing Christianity in our day. Lordship Salvation is that teaching which says that in order to be saved one must do more than simply trust in Christ and Him alone for eternal life. Such faith is viewed as “head faith,” or “intellectual assent,” “easy believism,” or “cheap grace.” People are confronted with the claims of Lordship Salvation on radio, TV, Internet, billboards, cassette tapes, face-to-face, from pulpits, etc. This seminar will examine the claims made by Lordship Salvation concerning faith, assurance, perseverance, and regeneration. This is right on the cutting edge of the debate over the Gospel that has raged since the time of the Apostles (see, for example, Galatians 1:6-9, written in 48 or 49 AD!). Seminar participants will come away with a better understanding of the fallacies of Lordship teaching and will be better equipped to share their faith.

 

10. The Johannine Epistles

            The Epistles of John are at the center of the debate over assurance of salvation today. This seminar will reveal that the purpose of 1-3 John is to lead Christians into ongoing fellowship with God, not to give believers tests by which they can verify whether or not they are truly saved.

            After an overview of the books, eight key passages will be explored: 1 John 1:5-10; 2:3-11; 2:28; 3:9; 4:17-19; 5:9-13; 2 John 7-11; and 3 John 11. Discussion will include consideration of the following questions: What does it mean to be in fellowship with God? Is fellowship all or nothing? How can a sinner be in fellowship with a God who is sinless? What does it mean to know God by our works? Will believers who are out of fellowship shrink back in shame before Christ at His coming? In what sense are Christians sinless? What does “Perfect love casts out fear” mean? How is assurance related to the testimony of God concerning His Son? In what sense does the spiritual success of those we have discipled affect our eternal rewards? And, what is meant by the phrase “He who does good is of God”?