I. Introduction On three occasions (1 Cor 6:9-11, Gal 5:19-21, and Eph 5:5-7) the Apostle Paul listed various vices and then said that people who live like that “will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5:19-21 has been selected as the representative text for this study. It reads: Now the works of the flesh

Paul Holloway* I. Introduction John MacArthur’s The Gospel According to Jesus has rekindled the debate long smoldering in Evangelical circles over Lordship Salvation.1 At the center of this debate is the question of the nature of saving faith: whether it entails a response of the human will to the lordship of Christ. Dr. MacArthur has

This excerpt is from the well-known and widely blessed Gospel booklet “Safety, Certainty, and Enjoyment.” The complete booklet is available from Bible Truth Publishers of Addison, Illinois. George Cutting1 Before you turn to the verse which I shall ask you very carefully to look at, which speaks of how a believer is to know that

John H. Gerstner, Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth: A Critique of Dispensationalism (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1991), xii+ 276 pp. In this review article, Hodges has followed Gerstner’s policy of capitalizing Dispensationalism (the theology) and lower-casing dispensationalists (its adherents). Ed. John H. Gerstner is a well-known and prolific writer/theologian from the

Frances A. Mosher* Not What These Hands Have Done Not what these hands have done Can save this guilty soul; Not what this toiling flesh has borne, Can make my spirit whole. Not what I feel or do, Can give me peace with God; Not all my prayers, or sighs, or tears, Can ease my

I. Introduction Several years ago I was invited to a Saturday dinner that ended in a doctrinal debate. I have never liked religious arguments or debates, and I feared that the dramatis personae of this dinner—four members of our church and two active ultra-dispensationalist gentlemen1—could only lead to our locking horns. The hostess was the