Free Speech or Propaganda?

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Free Speech or Propaganda? By Marlin Maddoux. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1990. 224 pp. Paper, $9.95. Maddoux begins with his personal reaction to the television coverage of the tragic events at Kent State University in May 1970. That event started him thinking that the American news establishment was conducting what he calls a “really big
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We Believe In: Assurance of Salvation

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It is a pleasure to be asked to write a guest article in Arthur Farstad’s fine series, “We Believe In.” Those readers who miss finding Dr. Farstad here will be glad to read his review of the New RSV elsewhere in this issue of the GES Journal. I. Introduction It is also a privilege to
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The Gospel and Water Baptism: A Study of Acts 2:38

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LANNY THOMAS TANTON Editorial Board Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society Dallas, Texas Prologue Is the demand for baptism (i.e., immersion in water) a part of the Gospel? Should every evangelistic sermon and every Gospel tract, in order to be biblical, include a demand for baptism? Should the unbeliever hear in clear and forceful terms
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This Present Darkness

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This Present Darkness. By Frank Peretti. Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1988. 376 pp. Paper, $8.95. Piercing the Darkness. By Frank Peretti. Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1989. 441 pp. Paper, $9.95. It was exhilarating, thrilling, reviving, rewarding—everything an angelic warrior was made for! The Host of Heaven had waited so long and had built up such
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If By Any Means

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If By Any Means. By R. E. Neighbour. Miami Springs, FL: Conley & Schoettle Publishing Co., 1985. 128 pp. Paper, $5.95. The confusion over the condition, confidence, and consequences of salvation is by no means limited to this generation. If By Any Means, written in 1940 by R. E. Neighbour, is a beautiful theological tapestry
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Piercing the Darkness

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This Present Darkness. By Frank Peretti. Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1988. 376 pp. Paper, $8.95. Piercing the Darkness. By Frank Peretti. Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1989. 441 pp. Paper, $9.95. It was exhilarating, thrilling, reviving, rewarding—everything an angelic warrior was made for! The Host of Heaven had waited so long and had built up such
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A Critique of The Gospel According to Jesus

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J. Kevin Butcher* I. Introduction By writing The Gospel According to Jesus, in a sense John F. MacArthur has done the evangelical world a favor. He has raised to a level of national consciousness the contemporary confusion in the Church over the most basic issue of all-the nature of the Gospel. MacArthur rightly suggests that
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Dead Faith: What Is It?—A Study on James 2:14–26

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Dead Faith: What Is It?—A Study on James 2:14–26. By Zane C. Hodges. Dallas: Redención Viva, 1987. 32 pp. Booklet, $1.95. The Church has never been fully satisfied with traditional understandings of James 2:14–26. Foreboding practical questions have loomed large. How could we honestly share a Gospel of pure grace and full assurance when in
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