September 11, 2017 by Zane Hodges in Blog
One must choose the side he is really on, and when one opts for friendship with the world, he automatically opts for enmity with God.

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. James 4:4 What emerges from the epistle is a portrait of Christian readers many of whom are materialistic in outlook, cultivating connections with […]

September 8, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
Logical Fallacy

There are two standards for evaluating a logical argument. First, is it true? And second, is it valid ? When an argument has true premises and is deductively valid, it is called sound. According to the first standard, in order for a logical argument to be true, the premises must be true. That’s common sense. […]

September 7, 2017   in Book Reviews

“BUTTERWORTH GETS HIS LIFE TOGETHER” But it falls apart before he can show his friends By: Bill Butterworth, Multnomah Books, 1996   This book can repudiate and perhaps teach those who believe Christianity is best verified by one victory piled upon another. The foundational principle of Free Grace is that faith alone in Christ alone […]

September 7, 2017   in Book Reviews

What Happened to the Word BELIEVE? By Donald H. Bunge. Self-published, 1999. 54 pp. (Paper), $1.50. The “Gospel (good news) is that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that He was buried and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). Then what is our part? […]

September 7, 2017 by Shawn Lazar in Blog
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Matthew Hennessey reported on a Pew study for The Wall Street Journal. Here is an interesting statistic: “Catholics aren’t the only ones dealing with religious illiteracy. Pew found that 53% of American Protestants couldn’t identify Martin Luther as the man who inspired the Reformation. (Oddly, Jews, atheists, and Mormons were more familiar with Luther.) Fewer […]

September 6, 2017 by Bob Wilkin in Book Reviews

A Review of Thomas L. Stegall’s The Gospel of the Christ: A Biblical Response to the Crossless Gospel Regarding the Contents of Saving Faith1 By Bob Wilkin The Thesis of the Book The main thesis of the book is that in order to be born again a person must believe in “the Lord’s deity, humanity, […]

September 6, 2017 by Bob Wilkin in Book Reviews
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The Race Set Before Us: A Biblical Theology of Perseverance & Assurance. By Thomas R. Schreiner and Ardel B. Caneday. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2001. 344 pp. Paper, $27.00. I. Introduction Thomas R. Schreiner teaches NT interpretation at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of numerous works on Paul, […]

September 6, 2017 by Art Farstad in Book Reviews
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Rightly Divided: Readings in Biblical Hermeneutics. Ed. by Roy B. Zuck. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publishers, 1996. 320 pp. Paper, $14.99. Dr. Zuck has woven together a scholarly work with contributions from scholars associated with such institutions as Oxford and Aberdeen, as well as Dallas, Denver, Gordon Conwell, Trinity, and Western Conservative Seminaries on how to […]

September 6, 2017 by Bob Wilkin in Book Reviews

New Geneva Study Bible: Bringing the Light of the Reformation to Scripture. Edited by Luder Whitlock, Jr., R. C. Sproul, Bruce Waltke, Moisés Silva, et al. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1995. 2058 pp. + 128 page concordance + 20 introductory pages. Cloth, $47.99. The editors of this study Bible are a veritable Who’s Who of […]

September 6, 2017   in Book Reviews

The Potter’s Freedom. By James White. Amityville, NY: Calvary Press Publishing, 2000. I. Introduction One thing Calvinists can never be accused of is failing to present their views. Of all the books written by Calvinists during the past ten years, James White’s book The Potter’s Freedom is perhaps the most polemical. And because it is […]

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