A reader emailed to say that I had taken Tozer out of context in my quotation from his book The Root of the Righteous. I had asked, “We must die on the cross in order to be born again?” Then I said, “That sure seems to be what Tozer was saying.” Yet what Tozer was

In the multi-author book edited by Marshall Shelley, Growing Your Church Through Training and Motivation, Wayne Jacobsen makes a fascinating comment that directly challenges the Free Grace position: The phone shatters the Monday morning quiet. “Pastor, I’m sorry to bother you on your day off, but I won’t be teaching my children’s class anymore. I

By John Claeys The description of the judgment begins with this statement in Matt 25:31: “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.” Thus, this judgment occurs immediately after Jesus’ glorious return to the earth at the

Recently while reading a book by pastor, author, and famed conference speaker John Piper, I came across a super quote by him. Regular readers of this newsletter know that Piper is not a Free Grace proponent. He is a committed Calvinist. He jokingly calls himself “a seven-point Calvinist.” He holds to Lordship Salvation, though you

by Grant Hawley The late A.W. Pink, champion of Reformed Theology, was a Dispensationalist early in his writing career. Pink wrote four books on the subject of premillennialism from a Dispensational premillennial perspective: Redeemer’s Return, The Golden Age: A Treatise on the One Thousand Year Reign of Christ on Earth, The Antichrist, and The Prophetic

by Grant Hawley John MacArthur claims to be a Dispensationalist in both The Gospel According to Jesus (GAJ) and The Gospel According to the Apostles (GAA). There is no doubt that he does hold to the fundamental distinction between the Church and Israel, though he does not always apply this distinction consistently. However, the view

A person who was reading a 1988 Grace in Focus article on our website entitled, “The Gospel Is Unhindered,” asked a great question. Though he is convinced that God is fair and impartial, he wondered how God could give some more revelation about the message of life than others. He wrote: In Matthew 11:23 Jesus

The Fourth Gospel is the only evangelistic book in the Bible(John 20:30-31). Its repeated message is that all who believe in Jesus Christ have everlasting life that can never be lost (cf. John 1:12; 3:16; 5:24; 6:35; 11:26). The writers of the epistles, unlike the Apostle John in the Fourth Gospel, were writing to born-again

by Bob Wilkin A GIF reader wrote to ask, “Why did you not mention Matt 18:11 & Luke 19:10? Please send me a full explanation.” [Referring to my article, “Who Is the Lost Person According to Scripture?” Grace in Focus Jan/Feb 2011]. Here is what I sent in reply: In both of those verses the

by John Kohut1 “You search the [OT] Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life” (John 5:39-40). Introduction In my few short years as a Christian I have struggled with my