The Shroud and the Controversy

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The Shroud and the Controversy. By Kenneth E. Stevenson and Gary R. Habermas. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1990. 257 pp. Cloth, $15.95. For those unfamiliar with the subject, the Shroud of Turin is a burial cloth dating back many centuries which contains a three-dimensional image-that is, with depth of field-of a man who was killed
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On This Day

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On This Day. By Carl D. Windsor. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1989. 383 pp. Cloth, $14.95. This book contains 366 entries-one for each day of the year, including February 29. Each page contains: (1) A Scripture reading for that day; (2) A sampling of what happened on that day in history; (3) A listing of
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A Voice from the Past: Assurance and Doubt

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This extract is taken from the Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book III, Chapter II, Sections 16-19. John Allen’s translation is from the original Latin and collated with Calvin’s last edition in French. The punctuation and spelling have been only slightly modernized. Ed. JOHN CALVIN† I. Section 16 The principal hinge on which faith turns
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Grace in the Arts: Grace Abounding in Great Literature

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Jim Townsend* Essayist and art critic John Ruskin (in Modern Painters) penned: “I believe that the root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian church has ever suffered has been rooted in the effort… to earn rather than to receive… salvation….”1 In other words, Ruskin attributes heresy squarely to a misunderstanding of
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Are All Believers Overcomers?

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By J. Sidlow Baxter To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My Throne.”–Rev. 3:21. In this promise our Lord is referring, of course, to His Messianic throne and His millennial reign. When He comes again, in power and glory, then will He lift His resistless rod over the nations, and
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Letters to the Editor

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Dear Dr. Wilkin, I have been receiving your newsletter [The GES News] for about, oh nine months or so. . . I do enjoy receiving your newsletter. Thank you for its free subscription. However, I am struggling with some of the things you are writing about…. Do you not believe that there must be some
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Letters to the Editor

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Dear Bob, I have thoroughly enjoyed receiving the GES News and the GES Statement of Faith…. I have met more and more Christians over the past few months who are eternally insecure. . . [and] who are full of unrest. . . Keep up the good work, Bob, in making people aware of the power
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Letters to the Editor

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Dear Bob, I have a question in regard to church discipline and GES. We will let people come to Jesus just as they are—a sin loving sinner. But are we to also allow them to come to church just as they are—a forgiven sin-loving sinner; or do we require a commitment to follow Jesus as
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Periodical Reviews

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“Abiding is Remaining in Fellowship: Another Look at John 15:1-6,” Joseph C. Dillow, Bibliotheca Sacra 147 (Jan-Mar 1990): 44-53. Joseph Dillow defends the view that John 15:1-6 is dealing with fellowship, not eternal salvation. He cites three lines of support for his view. 1) “Every branch in Me” most naturally refers to genuine believers. 2)
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