The Biblical View of Self-Esteem, Self-Love, Self-Image

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The Biblical View of Self-Esteem, Self-Love, and Self-Image. By Jay E. Adams. Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1986. 143 pp. Paper, $6.95. One of the striking things about the self-esteem movement is its tremendous appeal to those both within and without the Church. Like their counterparts in the world, many Christian psychologists (and even many pastors,
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The Grace Awakening

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The Grace Awakening. By Charles R. Swindoll. Dallas: Word Publishing, 1990. 311 pp. Cloth, $15.99. One of the primary frustrations of the Free Grace Movement has been the popularization of Lordship Salvation over the past decade. Though many high-profile evangelical leaders have voiced their personal concerns privately, none has been willing to risk alienating his
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Sanctity of Life: The Inescapable Issue

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Sanctity of Life: The Inescapable Issue. By Charles R. Swindoll. Dallas: Word Publishing, 1990. 103 pp. Paper, $6.95. Written by one of the most popular and prolific preachers and writers in evangelicalism today, this little book is really a tract for one of the most crucial social issues of our time. As a pastor for
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The Rise of Babylon: Sign of the End Times

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The Rise of Babylon: Sign of the End Times. By Charles H. Dyer with Angela Elwell Hunt. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1991. 236 pp. Paper, $8.95. More and more in recent decades the world has been watching the Middle East. The Bible leads us to believe that more and more we will continue
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Evangelical Catholics

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Evangelical Catholics. By Keith A. Fournier. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1990. 223 pp. Cloth, $15.95. Two major events in the early 1960’s precipitated a large-scale paradigm shift within the Roman Catholic Church in America: the Second Vatican Council and the charismatic revival. As a result of these two historical phenomena, a movement has emerged within
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Does Philippians 1:6 Teach Perseverance?

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By Charlie Bing [I am] confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. Jerry and Stevie were teenage friends of mine. Both became addicted to drugs, joined a Christian rehabilitation program, were saved and stopped doing drugs. Through this
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Letters to the Editor

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GES, I am both blessed and motivated by your stand on salvation by faith alone in the work of Christ alone. I continue to pray for GES that you may remain true to the gospel. The believers in my Bible classes have really learned from the GES newsletter. Thank you for your grace attitude! Pursued
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Letters to the Editor

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Dear Bob, I’ve [recently] come in contact with Grace Evangelical Society . . . [and] I look forward with enthusiasm in receiving my newsletter each month, and I’m learning so much. Not only am I learning about my free gift of salvation, but it’s opening my eyes to other truths in the Word, especially concerning
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The Soul That Sins Shall Die – Ezekiel 18

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The Old Testament prophets preached against sin-often and strenuously. Some have used this to attempt to support their faith-plus-works view of the Gospel. I taught a course in the Old Testament prophets at Multnomah School of the Bible as part of my teaching load there in the 1986-87 school year. The first assignment I had
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Letters to the Editor

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Dear GES, Please remove our name from your mailing list. It distresses me to see yet another division in the Body of Christ. Perhaps if we used our time, energy, and money in preaching the Good News, rather than “defending” it and attacking those who don’t interpret the Scripture in the “same words” as we
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