Stumbling to Assurance of Salvation
by Dick Peik I assumed that good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell. I felt it was impossible to be certain where you were going when you died. Nobody I knew ever claimed to be saved. That would have been rather audacious—like bragging! Getting to heaven took work! That made sense
Christ Alone!
by Vernon K. Lockner No works, no merit of my own, would I ever dare to plead. I rest my case on Christ alone, and that He died for me. No obedience or faithful fruit, will I boast before His throne. My faith is in the Lamb of God, I trust in Him alone. No
Are Most Americans Born Again?
by Grant Hawley In the latest two issues of Pre-Trib Perspectives (April and May 2003), Dr. Tim LaHaye quotes a Gallup Poll finding that 46 percent of American adults have had a “born again experience with Jesus Christ.”1 Not only does he seem to agree with this estimate, he takes this one step further by
A Pentecostal Finds Grace
by Roscoe Barnes III I felt a flash of anger when I looked at a tract on the plan of salvation that I had written. What bothered me was the comment made by Ron Bupp, a friend I’d asked to critique the manuscript. Bupp made a number of good suggestions. But near the end of
Danger
Dave Breese was an author, speaker, friend to presidents, influential in the establishment of both AWANA and Youth for Christ, and founder of Christian Destiny, Inc. He went home to be with the Lord last year. This was an article he was editing when he passed away. It is used by permission of Christian Destiny
TULIP: A Free Grace Perspective — Part 1: Total Depravity
A Critique of “The Potter’s Freedom” by James White
How Were People Saved Before Jesus Came?
Outbreak! Creating a Contagious Youth Ministry Through Viral Evangelism
Outbreak! Creating a Contagious Youth Ministry Through Viral Evangelism. By Greg Stier. Chicago: Moody Press, 2002. 265 pp. Cloth. $19.99. Written by Greg Stier, the co-founder and president of Dare 2 Share Ministries, Outbreak! provides a fresh and insightful look at evangelism in the context of youth ministry. In eleven chapters Stier elucidates the process