Can You Really Have Assurance of Salvation?

My guest today is Don Carson, a research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and president of The Gospel Coalition. We talk about the assurance of salvation.

Was I sincere when I made a profession of faith?

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Have I really trusted Christ for my salvation?

Does ongoing failure to resist temptation mean I’m not truly saved?

These are the sort of questions that haunt Christians who lack assurance of salvation. Listen as we seek to answer them. Thanks to Betsy Childs Howard for her help in preparing the interview.

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Collin Hansen serves as vice president for content and editor in chief of The Gospel Coalition, as well as executive director of The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. He hosts the Gospelbound podcast, writes the weekly Unseen Things newsletter, and has written and contributed to many books, including Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation and Rediscover Church: Why the Body of Christ Is Essential. He has published with the New York Times and the Washington Post and offered commentary for CNN, Fox News, NPR, BBC, ABC News, and PBS NewsHour. He edited The Gospel After Christendom, The AI Apocalypse, and The New City Catechism Devotional, among other books. He is an adjunct professor at Beeson Divinity School, where he also co-chairs the advisory board.

Don Carson (BS, McGill University; MDiv, Central Baptist Seminary, Toronto; PhD, University of Cambridge) is emeritus professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and cofounder (retired) of The Gospel Coalition. He has edited and authored numerous books. He and his wife, Joy, have two children.