Doubt and Assurance

Assurance of Faith: Puritan Thought on Assurance by the 1640s

It is important to briefly summarize Puritan thought on assurance by the 1640s. At least twenty-five members of the assembly had written treatises pertinent to the doctrines of faith and assurance prior to the assembly's convening.1By the 1640s English Puritan thought, notwithstanding various emphases, was nearly unanimous on several distincti with respect to assurance.

Assurance of Faith : Fresh Consideration Needed

The centrality of saving faith, the need for personal trust in God, the Reformers' questions, and biblical tensions relative to faith and assurance — all of this and more guarantees that assurance of faith will ever remain a contemporary subject. It is paramount that we ask ourselves: How can I experience ever greater measures of personal assurance of faith?

Do You Still Doubt the Reality of the Resurrection of Jesus?

Are you doubting the resurrection of Jesus? Did really Jesus rise? This article explains seven reasons for doubting the resurrection of Jesus.

Go to Jesus with Your Doubts!

What are you to do when you doubt as a child of God? This article first mentions the various kinds of doubts that can exist among God's children, then considers a passage often mentioned in this discussion, Mark 9:24. We are to go to Jesus with our doubts, and surrender to him.

This article meditates on Psalm 130, as a guide leading from doubt to assurance.

Doubt-Killing Promises

Borrowing from John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, this article encourages those who struggle with doubts to fix their attention on the promises of God’s Word.

I Believe in Doubt

Dr. Guinness demonstrates that resolving doubt leads to deeper and more mature faith.

Doubt as Virtue, Assurance as Arrogance

The author presents the thoughts of John Frame on doubt and assurance, over against the notion that it is somehow virtuous to doubt, and arrogant to be assured of our faith.

The Difference between Doubt and Unbelief

The author provides direction in distinguishing between doubt and unbelief, and instruction about how to deal with either in faith.

Does Your Doubt Dishonor God?

This article calls for those who doubt to examine their doubt, and addresses spiritual laziness as a possible cause of weak faith.

Face Your Doubt and Then Fight It

This brief article is written to encourage believers in their fight against doubt.

Doubt

This article provides some basic definitions, responses, and biblical data on the topic of doubt. It may be useful to those who must provide insight and direction to believers who struggle with doubt.

Doubting Your Doubts

This article provides a biblical perspective on doubt, and biblical direction for dealing with it.

Lay Aside the Weight of Doubt

In this article, the author speaks from personal experience about struggling with doubt, and offers practical ways to lay aside the weight of doubt (Hebrews 12:1).

When Doubt Becomes Unbelief

This article explains how doubt—which is natural, and experienced by all believers—becomes unbelief, and offers helpful instruction to prevent believers slipping from doubt into unbelief.

Helps for Doubting Christians

This article provides clear biblical encouragement and advice to believers who struggle with doubt.

Doubts

This article encourages those who struggle with doubt to follow the example of the Lord Jesus when he was tempted by Satan in the wilderness: consider what God has promised and revealed about himself in his Word.

When in Doubt, Overpractice

The author advises those who doubt to be diligent to practice the fundamental spiritual disciplines.

Spiritual Doubts and What to Do about Them

This article offers some advice about how believers can overcome the doubts that assail them.

Dealing with Doubt

This article offers encouragement to those who are struggling with doubt, to direct their attention to the things that are certain and sure.

Seven Ways to Deal with Doubt

This article provides a balanced perspective on the believer’s struggle with doubt, and offers biblical advice to encourage endurance in faith.

Nathanael: The Man Who had his Questions Answered

Are you struggling with doubts? Is Christ real? Looking at John 1: 43-51 this article shows how Jesus answered Nathanael’s questions and that the encounter of Nathanael with Jesus can be a cure to your doubting.

Why Some Believers Lack Assurance of Faith

Assurance of faith is the conviction that one belongs to Christ through faith and will enjoy everlasting salvation. However, assurance of salvation is not something enjoyed by every Christian. This article gives five reasons why this is the case.

The Importance of Assurance of Faith

Assurance of faith is the conviction that one belongs to Christ through faith and will enjoy everlasting salvation. Therefore, assurance of salvation is essential to every Christian, and this article gives five reasons why.

How to Help People Lost in the Maze of Doubt

How do you help those who Christians who struggle with doubt? This article offers some suggestions: listen to them, get to the root, and walk with them.

Helps for Doubting Believers

Mark 9 records three forms of unbelief. This article shows how these three accounts can help Christians deal with their doubts, as the author points to five remedies to doubting.

Walking through Doubt

How do you as a Christian overcome doubting? This article explains different kinds of doubt, lessons to be learned in the period of doubt, and seeing the light in the darkness of doubt.

The Danger of Not Doubting

As long as spiritual warfare is real, then doubting will always be part of the Christian life. How then should Christians go about dealing with doubt? This article offers five things.

Doubt Is Not a Disease

How do you disciple those who doubt? This article calls for understanding the relationship between faith and doubt, because the gospel is the good news to those who are doubting.

Moving from Uncertainty toward Assurance

What are the grounds for assurance of salvation? Is it possible to have the assurance of salvation? God gives his children assurance through the promise of adoption, the work of the Spirit, and through sanctification.

Three Ways to Know You Are a Christian

How do you know that you are truly saved? Many people lack assurance of salvation, resulting in constant fear and restlessness in their life. The Bible teaches at least three ways that you can know you are a Christian: you can know because you bear fruit, because the Spirit testifies to you that you are a Christian, and because the promises of God affirm this.