Talking to God: What the Bible Teaches About Prayer
Talking to God: What the Bible Teaches About Prayer. By Thomas L. Constable. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1995. 190 pages. Paper, $11.99. Talking to God is not just another motivational book on prayer. It is a biblical theology of prayer that is the culmination of 20 years of teaching at Dallas Theological Seminary as well […]
When God Says “Well Done!”: Running to Win the Prize
When God Says “Well Done!”: Running to Win the Prize. By R.T. Kendall. Scotland, U. K.: Christian Focus Publications, 1993. 224 pp. Paper, $9.99. In his preface Kendall writes, “This book will hopefully show us at least two things: (1) How to know we are going to Heaven not Hell; and (2) how we might […]
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 […]
Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography
Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography. By John Dominic Crossan. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995. 209 pp. Paper, $12.00. John Dominic Crossan is one of the more influential members of the “Jesus Seminar” (a group of 74 scholars who have recently voted that Jesus spoke only 18% of what is attributed to Him in the NT). Crossan has […]
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 […]
Grace in the Arts: The Theology of Leo Tolstoy
JAMES TOWNSEND Bible Editor Cook Communications Elgin, IL I. Literary Tribute F. W. Boreham asserted that “no other author has ever attained during his own lifetime such universal fame as Tolstoy.”1 William Lyon Phelps, a Christian professor of literature at Yale University, claimed: “During the last ten years of his life [Tolstoy] held an absolutely […]
Jesus Under Siege
Jesus Under Siege. By Gregory A. Boyd. Wheaton: Victor Books, 1995. 140 pp. Paper, $4.99. Jesus Under Siege is a popular defense of the authenticity of the Gospels and a refutation of the conclusions of the so-called Jesus Seminar. It is a summary of the author’s more detailed book, Cynic Sage or Son of God: […]
The Gospel: Its Heart, Heights & Hopes
The Gospel: Its Heart, Heights & Hopes Three Books in One. By Arthur T. Pierson. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1978, 1996. 702 pages. Cloth, $29.99. This volume, originally three separate books, is over 100 years old. Originally published in 1892, 1893, and 1896, they are derived from sermons Pierson preached at Charles Spurgeon’s church, the […]