Clinton Comments on the Gospel

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On July 21st of this year, in response to the death of his close friend, Vincent W. Foster, Jr., President Bill Clinton is reported by the New York Times News Service to have said,   My deepest hope is whatever drew Vince away from us this evening, his soul will receive the grace and salvation
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“I thought I would leave early…”

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GES founder and executive director Dr. Bob Wilkin presents seminars on faith, assurance, and apostasy, motivations for obedience, the Spirit-filled life, decision making and the will of God. and Lordship Salvation. Here are comments from some of this year’s participants at his seminar on faith, assurance, and apostasy: Excellent seminar. I thought I’d leave early,
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Made in America: The Shaping of Modern American Evangelicalism

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Made in America: The Shaping of Modern American Evangelicalism. By Michael Scott Horton. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1991. 198 pp. Cloth, $13.95. This book by a young Reformed Episcopal minister in California reveals the weakness of the evangelical church at the close of the twentieth century. In eight chapters he tackles the ways in
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Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse?

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Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse? By H. Wayne House and Thomas Ice. Portland: Multnomah, 1988. 460 pp. Cloth, $15.99. Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse? is an evaluation of Theonomy from a premillennial, dispensational perspective. The book is very well written and researched. One of the authors, Thomas Ice, was himself a theonomist from 1974 to
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Aftershock: What to Do When Leaders (And Others) Fail You

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Aftershock: What to Do When Leaders (And Others) Fail You. by Ted Kitchens. Portland: Multnomah Press, 1992. 245 pp. Paper, $9.99. Just about every Christian can recount a tragic story about another Christian who fell into sin. Unfortunately, they can usually also recount the tragic way the offender’s church responded to the fallen believer. Kitchens’s
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Saved Without a Doubt: How to Be Sure of Your Salvation

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Saved Without a Doubt: How to Be Sure of Your Salvation. John MacArthur, Jr. Wheaton: Victor Books, 1992. 187 pp. Paper, $7.99. John MacArthur claims to publish this book out of a pastoral concern for those in the churches who lack assurance of salvation. It is out of the same pastoral concern that I would
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Firm Foundations: Creation to Christ

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Firm Foundations: Creation to Christ. By Trevor McIlwain with Nancy Everson. Sanford, FL: New Tribes Mission, 1991. 582 pp. Paper, $24.95. Few books will promote the grace position as well as Firm Foundations. This is not a theology book on the issue of grace. Rather, it is a study of the Bible from a grace
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Transformed by His Glory

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Transformed by His Glory. By Charles C. Ryrie. Wheaton: Victor Press, 1990. 144 pp. Cloth, $12.99. I must admit at the outset that my love and respect for Dr. Ryrie as a man of God—for who he is and for what the Lord has done through him—do not allow me to be objective in reviewing
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We Believe In: Sanctification – Part 2: Past Sanctification

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ROBERT N. WILKIN Associate Editor Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society Dallas, Texas I. Introduction When most authors or speakers write or speak about sanctification, they almost always mean progressive (or present) sanctification.1In fact, many of the books and articles on sanctification never even mention past sanctification. One wonders why there is such a neglect
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The Perseverance of the Saints

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This selection is the first third of the 14th and last chapter of God’s Evangel. Being Gospel Papers. Originally published by Loizeaux Brothers of Neptune, NJ, it is reprinted in The Serious Christian, 1st Series (Charlotte, NC: Books for Christians, n.d.), 11:141-46. FREDERICK W. GRANT 1 The question as to what is commonly called “the
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