Out of Ashes

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Out of Ashes. By Keith Phillips. Los Angeles: World Impact Press, 1996. 196 pp. Cloth, $10.00. This book chronicles author Keith Phillips’s ministry of discipling and church planting in the racially-torn, depravity-dominated ghettos of America’s inner cities, with a special focus on Watts, that section of Los Angeles made famous by the 1965 riots. Phillips
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A Hymn of Grace: The Solid Rock

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Keith W. Ward Scientist Coatesville, PA My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, But wholly lean on Jesus’ name. When darkness veils His lovely face, I rest on His unchanging grace; In every high and stormy gale, My anchor holds within the veil.
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Repentance is for All Men

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DAVID R. ANDERSON The Woodlands, TX In his book I Call It Heresy! A. W. Tozer makes his position of Lordship salvation clear when he says, “…true obedience is one of the toughest requirements of the Christian life. Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility…we need
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Does Your Mind Need Changing? Repentance Reconsidered

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ROBERT N. WILKIN Associate Editor Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society Irving, TX Editor’s note: The following is a revised form of a paper delivered at the March 30-April 1 GES Conference on repentance, held in Grapevine, TX. I. My Testimony: Many Changes of Mind Concerning Repentance While growing up in Southern California, I was
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A Voice from the Past: What Is the Gospel?

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This article is the second chapter of Ironside’s book God’s Unspeakable Gift (London: Pickering & Inglis, 1908). He makes many excellent points, often with wit and humor. Get ready to enjoy a feast that is just as relevant today as it was 90 years ago. Ed. H. A. IRONSIDE1   “Moreover brethren I declare unto
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The Riddle of Grace

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The Riddle of Grace. By Scott Hoezee. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1996. 164 pp. Paper, $14.00. What does it mean to be “saved by grace” and then—as a result of that salvation—to live “graciously”? Do Christians know what it means to be a “graced people”? This is the basic thrust of the
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Rescued by Grace—Twice

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by anonymous The following is a letter written by a GES member in Ohio to GES Executive Director, Bob Wilkin. We thought you would be encouraged by the letter. I was working for a glass company at an east Toledo plant. There was a Christian man in our department who openly witnessed for the Lord
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Voice from the Past: The Heart of the Gospel

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This selection is taken from a book reviewed in this issue, The Gospel: Its Heart, Heights, and Hopes. The paragraph titles, American spelling preferences (honorable, etc.), some punctuation, and one vocabulary updating are the only changes made in the text. ARTHUR T. PIERSON1 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
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