I just received a call from a missionary in Europe asking about the Beatitudes—especially Matt 5:3 and 5:10. He’d been reading a commentator who argued that the Beatitudes were descriptions of the type of people who will get into the kingdom. In this understanding the Lord was calling His disciples to live exemplary lives so

by Grant Hawley In the latest two issues of Pre-Trib Perspectives (April and May 2003), Dr. Tim LaHaye quotes a Gallup Poll finding that 46 percent of American adults have had a “born again experience with Jesus Christ.”1 Not only does he seem to agree with this estimate, he takes this one step further by

by Vernon K. Lockner No works, no merit of my own, would I ever dare to plead. I rest my case on Christ alone, and that He died for me. No obedience or faithful fruit, will I boast before His throne. My faith is in the Lamb of God, I trust in Him alone. No