By Kathryn Wright Of all the passages in the NT, James 2:14-26 is the one we most frequently encounter in an adversarial way when we proclaim the message of grace. Sadly, many have fallen prey to works-based salvation due to popular misapplications of these verses. Because of these misunderstandings, if you teach that eternal life

By Nancy Rempel Part I Just before midnight on September 30, 1994, a baby, one month premature, slipped out of an unwed Muslim girl in Peshawar, Pakistan. Wide-eyed with fear, 15-year-old Jan Bibi delivered her tiny boy in silence. The victim of a revenge rape, Jan Bibi was running, hiding, and dodging death. Six months

By Bob Wilkin I watch the news for a few minutes each morning before leaving for work. On Good Friday morning this year, I watched Brian Kilmeade interview Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York. The ending of the interview struck me. Kilmeade asked Cardinal Dolan if he hoped to become Pope. Cardinal Dolan replied, “I’m

By Dix Winston Jesus Christ claimed to be the Son of God. The New Testament presents Him as being fully God and fully human. His death paid for the sins of the whole world. As a result, anybody who believes in Him for eternal life receives it as a free gift. These are all incredible

By Ken Yates All my Christian life I’ve heard people say things like this: “A real Christian would never commit that sin.” Of course, those who say such a thing differ on what that sin would be. However, one of the “really big” sins is to deny Christ. It is common to hear preachers and

By Mike (Tsung-Tsun) Lii I didn’t grow up in a professing Christian home. When I was an elementary student, our family attended church once or twice a year, not necessarily on Easter or Christmas. During my middle school years, I was taken more regularly to a Taiwanese-speaking Presbyterian church, which should have increased my Bible

By Bob Wilkin *This article was first published in the June 1989 issue of what was then a newsletter called The GES News. One writer has recently suggested that H. A. Ironside’s view of repentance is the same as that of modern Commitment Salvation (i.e., Lordship Salvation) advocates (John F. MacArthur, Jr., The Gospel According

By Doug Potgeter I met a friend for coffee recently, and we thoroughly enjoyed an edifying conversation about the Bible and theology. At one point in the conversation, we started talking about what a person must believe in order to be born again. My friend mentioned 1 Corinthians 15:1- 4 and proceeded to explain that

By Kathryn Wright Calvinistic theology is gaining popularity among Evangelicals today. I have been involved with Southern Baptist churches for much of my life, and this theology is becoming increasingly prominent in the seminaries and pulpits. This especially seems to be the case with young pastors. When people defend Calvinism, they often deal with it

By Nathanael Stevens The news industry gained a lot of viewers through the debate on “a war on women”—but the tagline was mere semantics, if not outright deception. The truth is, there was and is a war on gender. More specifically, there is a war on masculinity and femininity. Women have been encouraged to renounce