Divine Sovereignty & Human Freedom

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Divine Sovereignty & Human Freedom. By Samuel Fisk. Neptune, NJ: Loizeaux Brothers, 1973. 175 pp. Paper, $5.99. “Brethren, be willing to see both sides of the shield of truth. Rise above the babyhood which cannot believe two doctrines until it sees the connecting link. Have you not two eyes, man? Must you needs put one
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What Was God Doing on the Cross?

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What Was God Doing on the Cross? By Alister E. McGrath. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1992. 123 pp. Paper, $7.99. What religious organization in its right mind would choose a noose or an electric chair as its logo? Symbols are crucial to people’s perception of what something stands for. The British Labour party, our
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The Gospel and the Church

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Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted and edited from Dr. Farstad’s article, “We Believe in the Church,” which appeared in the Spring 1992 issue of the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society. We of the Grace Evangelical Society believe in the Church. GES is what is popularly known as a “parachurch” organization, that is, we
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A Charming Sound: Grace

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Every profession, hobby, art, science, and “in-group” has its own vocabulary or jargon, including special meanings to ordinary words. A lawyer’s tort is not the same a chef’s torte or a restaurateur’s tortilla. “Shaft” may mean something quite different to a miner, an engineer, or to someone who has just been fired! A clear understanding
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Marian Anderson and the Heritage of Spirituals

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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.
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John Nelson Darby

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John Nelson Darby. By Max S. Weremchuk. Neptune, NJ: Loizeaux Brothers, 1992. Translated from the German, John Nelson Darby and die Anfdnge einer Bewegung, 1988. 256 pp. Cloth, $14.99. A strong GES supporter was challenged by an antidispensationalist about the father of modern dispensationalism: “He wasn’t very educated.” My friend, though a seminary graduate, had
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Are You A Saint Or An Ain’t?

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Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is taken, and edited, from one section of Dr. Farstad’s article, “We Believe in: Sanctification, ” in the Autumn 1992 issue of the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society. See Resources With A Focus on Grace for ordering back issues. Many well-meaning Christians are not well taught on this supremely
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Rembrandt van Ryn: A Protestant Artist

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I. Introduction On the wall of my in-house office/library hangs a reproduction of a famous Christian painting. It has dramatic lighting—an almost theatrical triangle of light surrounded by great darkness. In the picture the dead body of our Lord is being taken down from the Cross by the loving hands of Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus,
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Read Your Bible!

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Many have heard the story of the man whose devotional reading consisted of cracking his Bible at random and reading the first verse his finger touched. One morning this was his verse for the day: “And Judas went out and hanged himself.” That can’t be it, he thought. So he tried again. “Go thou and
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