When God Says “Well Done!”: Running to Win the Prize

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When God Says “Well Done!”: Running to Win the Prize. By R.T. Kendall. Scotland, U. K.: Christian Focus Publications, 1993. 224 pp. Paper, $9.99. In his preface Kendall writes, “This book will hopefully show us at least two things: (1) How to know we are going to Heaven not Hell; and (2) how we might
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Repentance is for All Men

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DAVID R. ANDERSON The Woodlands, TX In his book I Call It Heresy! A. W. Tozer makes his position of Lordship salvation clear when he says, “…true obedience is one of the toughest requirements of the Christian life. Apart from obedience, there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility…we need
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Does Your Mind Need Changing? Repentance Reconsidered

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ROBERT N. WILKIN Associate Editor Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society Irving, TX Editor’s note: The following is a revised form of a paper delivered at the March 30-April 1 GES Conference on repentance, held in Grapevine, TX. I. My Testimony: Many Changes of Mind Concerning Repentance While growing up in Southern California, I was
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A Voice from the Past: What Is the Gospel?

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This article is the second chapter of Ironside’s book God’s Unspeakable Gift (London: Pickering & Inglis, 1908). He makes many excellent points, often with wit and humor. Get ready to enjoy a feast that is just as relevant today as it was 90 years ago. Ed. H. A. IRONSIDE1   “Moreover brethren I declare unto
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Grace in the Arts: The Theology of Leo Tolstoy

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JAMES TOWNSEND Bible Editor Cook Communications Elgin, IL I. Literary Tribute F. W. Boreham asserted that “no other author has ever attained during his own lifetime such universal fame as Tolstoy.”1 William Lyon Phelps, a Christian professor of literature at Yale University, claimed: “During the last ten years of his life [Tolstoy] held an absolutely
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Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography

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Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography. By John Dominic Crossan. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995. 209 pp. Paper, $12.00. John Dominic Crossan is one of the more influential members of the “Jesus Seminar” (a group of 74 scholars who have recently voted that Jesus spoke only 18% of what is attributed to Him in the NT). Crossan has
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Out of Ashes

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Out of Ashes. By Keith Phillips. Los Angeles: World Impact Press, 1996. 196 pp. Cloth, $10.00. This book chronicles author Keith Phillips’s ministry of discipling and church planting in the racially-torn, depravity-dominated ghettos of America’s inner cities, with a special focus on Watts, that section of Los Angeles made famous by the 1965 riots. Phillips
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An Easy-To-Understand Guide For Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds

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An Easy-To-Understand Guide For Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds. By Phillip E. Johnson. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1997. 131 pp. Paper, $15.99. Phillip Johnson is the author of Darwin on Trial and Reason in The Balance. He wrote this book for high school juniors, seniors, and beginning college undergraduates. In it he discusses common mistakes
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When Assurance Is Not Assurance

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ROBERT N. WILKIN Associate Editor Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society Irving, TX I. Introduction There are many people today who say that assurance of salvation is possible, but that certainty is impossible. Unless one is very familiar with that way of thinking, this argument is puzzling. How can one have assurance and yet not
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Voice from the Past: The Heart of the Gospel

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This selection is taken from a book reviewed in this issue, The Gospel: Its Heart, Heights, and Hopes. The paragraph titles, American spelling preferences (honorable, etc.), some punctuation, and one vocabulary updating are the only changes made in the text. ARTHUR T. PIERSON1 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
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