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Calculating the Date of Creation and the Flood: A Young-Earth Creationist View

January 1, 2015 by GES Webmaster in Grace in Focus Articles

By J. Paul Tanner The proposals presented here are based on the assumption that the dates given in the Bible are taken at face value and that the genealogies in Genesis 5 and 11 are “tight” (without gaps). A detailed elaboration and defense of these calculations appear in my article “Old Testament Chronology and Its

The Usefulness of Faith (James 2:14-26)

January 1, 2015 by GES Webmaster in Grace in Focus Articles

By David Janssen Do you have china dishes in a china cabinet at your house? We do. My wife was given a set when she was young, and ever since we got married, we have been moving boxes of them around with us. Now in Sandy, Utah, we even have a nice oak cabinet to

“Radical” Changes at IMB?

November 1, 2014 by GES Webmaster in Grace in Focus Articles

David Platt, author of Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, has been appointed the President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board. Platt will lead the SBC’s mission to take the gospel to the lost. The question is, what “gospel” will he preach? In the first chapter of his book, Follow

What Do You Need to Know?

November 1, 2014 by GES Webmaster in Grace in Focus Articles

By Staff How Do Our Sins Affect Our Rewards? Q : We all sin and we all sin every day. We are not going to stop sinning as long as we are in these bodies. We practice some sins more than others. As I understand it, sin is sin to God, whether it’s a little

Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God’s Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People

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Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire: What Happens When God’s Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People. By Jim Cymbala and Dean Merrill. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1996. 206 pages. Paper, $15.99. I had heard of Jim Cymbala, his church, and the famous Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. I read that his church has over 16,000 members. I first

Dispensational Understanding of the New Covenant

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Dispensational Understanding of the New Covenant. By Mike Stallard, John Master, Dave Fredrickson, Roy E. Beacham, Elliott E. Johnson, Rodney J. Decker, and Bruce Compton. Editor Mike Stallard. Schaumburg, Ill.: Regular Baptist Press, 2012. 285 pages. Paper, $24.99. This book presents three dispensationalist views of the Church’s relationship to Israel’s New Covenant. The non-dispensationalist view

Intelligent Design or Naturalism? — The Relevance of Romans 1:18-32

July 1, 2014 by GES Webmaster in Grace in Focus Articles

By Philippe R. Sterling Stephen King told NPR in a recent interview that he believes in God and intelligent design.1 “If you say, ‘Well, OK, I don’t believe in God. There’s no evidence of God,’ then you’re missing the stars in the sky and you’re missing the sunrises and sunsets and you’re missing the fact

Why It Matters That Hebrews Was Written to Believers

July 1, 2014 by GES Webmaster in Grace in Focus Articles

By David Janssen Because the epistle to the Hebrews is a challenging book to understand, many believers today don’t take the time and effort to mine its rich truths. One reason it has become difficult to understand is the debate concerning whom Hebrews was written to.1 Many view Hebrews as a message that was written

Q&A

July 1, 2014 by GES Webmaster in Grace in Focus Articles

By Bob Wilkin Q : Paul so often talked about the freeness of salvation. He wanted us to know that if works of any kind are added to belief then that is not salvation. Paul went to great effort to show the clear contrast between works and grace. But I do not see Jesus doing

Salvation And Rewards

May 1, 2014 by GES Webmaster in Grace in Focus Articles

By C. I. Scofield1 The New Testament Scriptures contain a doctrine of salvation for the lost and a doctrine of rewards for the faithful services of the saved. And it is of great importance to the right understanding of the Word that the student should clearly make the distinction between these. What that distinction is