Lordship Salvation: Some Crucial Questions and Answers

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Lordship Salvation: Some Crucial Questions and Answers. Including a Reply to “So Great Salvation” by Charles C. Ryrie and “Absolutely Free!” by Zane C. Hodges. By Robert Lescelius. Asheville, NC: Revival Literature, 1992. 217 pp. Paper, $6.99. Add another book to the lordship side of the Lordship Salvation controversy. The balance of books is on
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Growing Through Conflict

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Growing Through Conflict. By Erwin Lutzer. Wheaton: Victor Books, 1992. 156 pp. Paper, $5.99. This short and easy-to-read Bible study book is from the Life-in-Perspective Series. As always, Dr. Lutzer captures the reader with his simple, clear, and illustrative style. The book is meant to be read along with most of 1 and 2 Samuel
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“Grace” by D. L. Moody

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by D. L. MOODY* I am going to take tonight a subject rather than a text. I want to talk to you about Free Grace. I say “Free Grace”; perhaps I had better drop the word free and say just grace. There is a sermon just in the meaning of the word. It is one
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Keep It Clear And Simple

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This article is excerpted and slightly adapted from an article entitled “How to Share the Gospel Clearly,” which appeared in the Spring 1994 issue of the Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society. This portion of the article is taken from pp. 56-59, 65. by Charlie Bing Introduction What does a person have to believe in
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Selling Jesus. What’s Wrong with Marketing the Church?

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Selling Jesus. What’s Wrong with Marketing the Church? Douglas D. Webster. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1992. 165 pp. Paper, $9.99. One of the fastest growing trends in evangelical circles is the art of marketing the church. This is the concept popularized by Bill Hybels, George Barna, Lyle Schaller and others. In his book, Selling
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God Uses Gospel Tracts

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Perry C. Brown Tract Editor American Tract Society Garland, TX   I. Introduction “It’s too simple!” That’s the crux of the debate about the Free Grace Gospel. The simplicity of the Free Grace message has increasingly drawn the fire of the Lordship Salvation camp. Likewise, that is the attitude of many contemporary Christians toward literature
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And the Angels Were Silent

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And the Angels Were Silent. Max Lucado. Portland, OR: Multnomah Press, 1992. 261 pp. Cloth, $16.99. The prolific and immensely popular Max Lucado is a masterful author, gifted communicator, accomplished speaker, and sadly–a propagator of a false gospel. In his book, And the Angels Were Silent, Lucado beautifully presents the events of the final week
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