No Place for Truth, or, Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?
No Place for Truth, or, Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? By David F. Wells. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1993. 318 pp. Paper $14.99. This is one of the best books I have read in years. Wells, a seminary professor of historical and systematic theology, discusses key aspects of the decline of interest […]
Heaven: Your Real Home
Heaven: Your Real Home. By Joni Eareckson Tada. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1995), 215 pp. Cloth, $13.95. According to many authors, believers will spend eternity doing little more than singing all the time. This is not the picture presented by Joni Eareckson Tada (hereafter referred to as Joni). Joni says that believers “will be […]
What About Those Who Have Never Heard? Three Views on the Destiny of the Unevangelized
What About Those Who Have Never Heard? Three Views on the Destiny of the Unevangelized. Ed. by John Sanders. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1995. 168 pp. Paper, $10.99. The rise of Pluralism in Western society has challenged Evangelicals to respond again to the question of the unevangelized. If the only way that someone can […]
Eternity: Reclaiming a Passion for What Endures
Eternity: Reclaiming a Passion for What Endures.By Joseph M. Stowell. Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1995. 244 pp. Cloth, $12.95. This is an important book. Not because it is replete with “exegetical breakthroughs” or because it contains a plethora of scholarly insights, but rather because it calls the reader to focus on what every believer should […]
A Hymn of Grace — Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness
FRANCES A. MOSHER Pianist Christ Congregation Dallas, Texas JESUS, THY BLOOD AND RIGHTEOUSNESS Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness My beauty are, my glorious dress; ‘Midst flaming worlds, in these arrayed With joy shall I lift up my head. Bold shall I stand in that great day, For who aught to my charge shall lay? Fully […]
Legalism: The Real Thing
Legalism is not a very nice word. No one wants to be accused of it anymore than one would want to be accused of despising motherhood or apple pie. In ecclesiastical circles, to call someone a legalist is to hurl an insult of the first magnitude. If someone says, “You’re a legalist,” the instinctive reply […]
Does Philippians 1:6 Guarantee Progressive Sanctification? Part 2
JOHN F. HART Professor of Bible Moody Bible Institute Chicago, IL I. Introduction In Part 1 of this article, an investigation was begun regarding the nature of the declaration in Phil 1:6 that, “He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus .”1 It was observed […]
Christianity’s Crisis in Evangelism: Going Where the People Are
Christianity’s Crisis in Evangelism: Going Where the People Are. By Linda Raney Wright. Graham, OR: Vision House Publishing, 1995. 185 pp. Cloth, $14.99. This is an intensely practical discussion of reaching the lost in our day, written by a woman who is obviously an active soul-winner herself. This author is concerned—rightly it appears—with what she […]
The Shepherd of Hermas
“The Shepherd of Hermas,” in The Apostolic Fathers, 2:2-305. Translated by Kirsopp Lake. Cambridge, MA: The Loeb Classical Library, 1977. Cloth. If you hate free grace, forgiveness, and divine compassion, you’ll love “The Shepherd of Hermas,” here printed in Greek and English on facing pages. A more legalistic, works-oriented allegory would be hard to come […]
Rembrandt: Life of Christ
Rembrandt: Life of Christ. Nashville: Oliver Nelson, 1995. 136 pp. Cloth, $22.99. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) executed the pen and ink sketches, black ink etchings, and full-color paintings in this book. Except for a well-written two-page introduction, the text of this life of our Lord is selections from the New King James Gospels, which […]