The New Puritanism Part 2: Michael S. horton: Holy War with Unholy Weapons
Introduction to the Series Over the last year or so a growing number of books and articles has appeared which have targeted the Free Grace movement for critique and rebuttal. These publications mention the Grace Evangelical Society and its literature. This is a positive development. GES definitely wishes to have its views seriously discussed in […]
Leaders in the Making: A Workbook for Discovering and Developing Church Leaders
Leaders in the Making: A Workbook for Discovering and Developing Church Leaders. By Paul N. Benware and Brian Harris. Chicago: Moody Press, 1991. 120 pp. Paper, $8.99. As the subtitle indicates, this is a workbook designed to be used by churches to discover and develop church leaders. The book is divided into four major study […]
The Psychological Effects of Lordship Salvation
FRANK B. MINIRTH * Introduction The relationship between faith and works has been an issue of debate for many years. It centers around the nature of saving faith: Does it entail a response of the human will to the lordship of Christ? Evangelicals maintain that justification is by grace through faith alone and that works […]
Self-Examination as It Relates to Assurance
This voice from the nineteenth century is excerpted from Chapter XX of The Way Made Plain (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1967), 293-95. Reprint from Philadelphia: American Sunday-school Union, 1871. JAMES H. BROOKES[1] It may be asked whether there are not certain evidences of conversion found in the Scriptures. Undoubtedly there are, but they are […]
Marian Anderson and the Heritage of Spirituals
ARTHUR L. FARSTAD Editor and FRANCES A. MOSHER Pianist, Christ Congregation Dallas, Texas Introduction It is reported that even the bellhops that Easter morning in Washington, D.C. prayed, “Lord, please don’t let it rain!” Their prayer—and that of thousands of others—was answered. Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, dawned gray and cloudy, but it didn’t rain. […]
Transformed by His Glory
Transformed by His Glory. By Charles C. Ryrie. Wheaton: Victor Press, 1990. 144 pp. Cloth, $12.99. I must admit at the outset that my love and respect for Dr. Ryrie as a man of God—for who he is and for what the Lord has done through him—do not allow me to be objective in reviewing […]
Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse?
Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse? By H. Wayne House and Thomas Ice. Portland: Multnomah, 1988. 460 pp. Cloth, $15.99. Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse? is an evaluation of Theonomy from a premillennial, dispensational perspective. The book is very well written and researched. One of the authors, Thomas Ice, was himself a theonomist from 1974 to […]
Aftershock: What to Do When Leaders (And Others) Fail You
Aftershock: What to Do When Leaders (And Others) Fail You. by Ted Kitchens. Portland: Multnomah Press, 1992. 245 pp. Paper, $9.99. Just about every Christian can recount a tragic story about another Christian who fell into sin. Unfortunately, they can usually also recount the tragic way the offender’s church responded to the fallen believer. Kitchens’s […]
Dr. Dobson: Turning Hearts Toward Home
Dr. Dobson: Turning Hearts Toward Home. By Rolf Zettersten. Dallas: Word Publishing, 1989. 183 pp. Cloth, $10.99. This reviewer is a long-time listener to Dr. James Dobson and his “Focus on the Family” radio broadcast. I have found his insights on the family to be very helpful and biblically based. It was thus with great […]
No God But God. Breaking with the Idols of Our Age
No God But God. Breaking with the Idols of Our Age. Edited by Os Guinness and John Seel. Chicago: Moody Press, 223 pp. Cloth, $16.99. The preacher of Ecclesiastes, Qoheleth, warns us that the writing of many books is endless and wearying to the soul. But here is a welcome exception. In No God But […]