A Hymn of Grace: Seasons of Rapture
Frances Mosher Pianist Christ Congregation Dallas, TX If Christ comes back in winter, when earth lies cold and pale, Will He find pilgrims watching, or will our hearts’ love fail? O hail our King in white! He comes from heaven to save us from tribulation’s night. If Christ comes back in springtime, when burst the […]
Assurance: Of the Essence of Saving Faith
A recent political cartoon in USA Today caught my attention. It is surprisingly relevant to my subject. In the cartoon a man and a woman were facing each other. Both of them looked like somewhat off-beat types. In the first panel, the man said, “Elvis is alive,” and the woman replied something like, “I agree […]
Out of the Cults and Into the Church: Understanding & Encouraging Ex-Cultists
Out of the Cults and Into the Church: Understanding & Encouraging Ex-Cultists. By Janis Hutchinson. Grand Rapids: Kregel Resources, 1994. 221 pp. Paper, $10.99. As one who was in a very small yet dangerous cult group for 14 years before becoming a Christian, I was attracted to this book. Though I have been out of […]
Free and Clear: Understanding & Communicating God’s Offer of Eternal Life
Free and Clear: Understanding & Communicating God’s Offer of Eternal Life. By R. Larry Moyer. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1997. 272 pp. Paper, $13.99. Larry Moyer, co-founder and executive director of EvanTell ministry in Dallas, has been a Free Grace evangelist for over twenty years. In this book Larry shares insights gained from his many […]
To Follow Him: The Seven Marks of a Disciple
To Follow Him: The Seven Marks of a Disciple. By Mark Bailey. Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 1997. 171 pp. Paper, $11.99. Discipleship continues to be a buzzword in churches which that that Jesus Christ told them to make disciples. However, there has not been much consistency in approach. Some discipleship literature and courses emphasize the […]
The NIV Application Commentary: Galatians
The NIV Application Commentary: Galatians. By Scot McKnight. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1995. 320 pp. Paper, $22.99. McKnight is professor of biblical and theological studies at North Park College in Chicago. This commentary is part of the NIV Application Commentary Series, designed to provide both scholarship and application: “bringing an ancient message into a […]
Repentance is for All Men
DAVID R. ANDERSON The Woodlands, TX In his book I Call It Heresy! A. W. Tozer makes his position of Lordship salvation clear when he says, “…true obedience is one of the toughest requirements of the Christian life. Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility…we need […]
Does Your Mind Need Changing? Repentance Reconsidered
ROBERT N. WILKIN Associate Editor Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society Irving, TX Editor’s note: The following is a revised form of a paper delivered at the March 30-April 1 GES Conference on repentance, held in Grapevine, TX. I. My Testimony: Many Changes of Mind Concerning Repentance While growing up in Southern California, I was […]
A Voice from the Past: What Is the Gospel?
This article is the second chapter of Ironside’s book God’s Unspeakable Gift (London: Pickering & Inglis, 1908). He makes many excellent points, often with wit and humor. Get ready to enjoy a feast that is just as relevant today as it was 90 years ago. Ed. H. A. IRONSIDE1 “Moreover brethren I declare unto […]
Out of Ashes
Out of Ashes. By Keith Phillips. Los Angeles: World Impact Press, 1996. 196 pp. Cloth, $10.00. This book chronicles author Keith Phillips’s ministry of discipling and church planting in the racially-torn, depravity-dominated ghettos of America’s inner cities, with a special focus on Watts, that section of Los Angeles made famous by the 1965 riots. Phillips […]