A Wideness in God’s Mercy: The Finality of Jesus Christ in a World of Religions
A Wideness in God’s Mercy: The Finality of Jesus Christ in a World of Religions. By Clark H. Pinnock. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1992. 217 pp. Paper, $16.99. Clark Pinnock writes in response to John Hick’s pluralism and the exclusivism of most Evangelicals. His book has two main parameters within which he feels a […]
The Subtle Danger of An Imprecise Gospel
I. Introduction As readers of JOTGES are fully aware, I am not in agreement with Lordship Salvation’s view of the gospel. Yet there are issues (such as: the deity of Christ, inerrancy, the sanctity of marriage, and calling believers to holiness) on which we do find common ground. This article addresses one such shared concern: […]
Are You Going to Heaven?
Are You Going to Heaven? Sacramento, CA: Double Visions Productions, 1994. 35- minute video. $19.95. The title of this video is catchy. There are a number of fine things about it as well. The production quality is good; this is not something put together hastily. It has an appealing, professional look to it. The interviews […]
A Voice from the Past: Sonship and Heirship
Our last selection from “C.H.M.” (“Sanctification: What Is It?” JOTGES [Autumn 1992]: 45-56) as he was affectionately called, was from his Miscellaneous Writings. The present offering is from his other well-known work, Notes on the Pentateuch. Regarding this work, Wilbur M. Smith, a great evangelical bibliographer of recent years, wrote: “One of the richest devotional […]
Grace in the Arts: Thomas Hardy: The Tragedy of a Life without Christ
JAMES TOWNSEND1 Bible Editor Cook Communications Elgin, IL I. Introduction A. Why Read an Agnostic? The evangelist Charles Finney stated: “I cannot believe that a person who has ever known the love of God can ever relish a secular novel…Let me visit your…books. What is here? Byron, Scott, Shakespeare and a host of triflers and […]
The Gospel and Spiritual Warfare: A Review of Peter Wagner’s Confronting the Powers
JOHN F. HART Professor of Bible Moody Bible Institute Chicago, IL All those who are concerned for the content of the gospel should be equally concerned for the spread of the gospel. The purity of the good news of salvation is irrelevant if it is never preached, and therefore never heard and believed. It is […]
A Hymn of Grace: Wonderful Grace of Jesus
KEITH W. WARD Scientist U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, NC Wonderful grace of Jesus, greater than all my sin; How shall my tongue describe it, where shall its praise begin? Taking away my burden, setting my spirit free, For the wonderful grace of Jesus reaches me! Wonderful grace of Jesus, reaching to all […]
Witnesses in Stone: Landmarks and Lessons from the Living God
Witnesses in Stone: Landmarks and Lessons from the Living God. By Frederic R. Howe. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1996. 144 pp. Paper, $8.99. There is an old Jewish story that when God was creating the earth He assigned two angels to drop stones all over the earth. Each angel got a huge sack of stones […]
Philosophers Who Believe: The Spiritual Journeys of Eleven Leading Thinkers
Philosophers Who Believe: The Spiritual Journeys of Eleven Leading Thinkers. Ed. by Kelly James Clark. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993. 276 pp. Cloth, $24.99. We live in a skeptical age. And there is no more skeptical crowd living in our skeptical age than philosophers! That’s one of the factors that makes Philosophers Who Believe […]
Historical Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles
Historical Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles By William M. Ramsay. Ed. by Mark Wilson. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1996. 160 pp. Paper, $9.99. Many religious writers have doubted or denied the historical reliability of at least parts of the Bible. Few, however, have gone out to test these theories as did Sir William Ramsay (1851-1939). […]