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The End of the Pilgrimage: Your Judgment Seat Verdict and How It Determines Your Place in His Kingdom

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The End of the Pilgrimage: Your Judgment Seat Verdict and How It Determines Your Place in His Kingdom. By James S. Hollandsworth. NP: Holly Publishing, 2015. 167 pp. Paper, $12.99. James Hollandsworth is Pastor of Tri-City Baptist Church in Forest City, NC. The back cover of The End of Your Pilgrimage indicates that “He is

Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith

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Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith. By Francis Watson. Second Edition. London: T&T Clark, 2016. 560 pp. Paper, $39.95. Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith situates Paul in a metaphorical three-way conversation with Scripture and Second Temple Jewish interpreters. As a Jew, Paul would not have abandoned his Pharisaic heritage of reading and learning from

Saving Calvinism: Expanding the Reformed Tradition

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Saving Calvinism: Expanding the Reformed Tradition. By Oliver D. Crisp. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016. 165 pp. Paper, $18.00. This book has a fascinating title and subtitle. The dedication is even more fascinating: “To Robin Parry: Evangelical Universalist, Dear Friend.” Crisp is a Professor of systematic theology at Fuller Theological Seminary. And he considers

Adopted into God’s Family: Romans 8:15-16

August 31, 2016 by Ken Yates in Blog

I remember when I was 12 years old and living in South Korea. At that time, Korea was a developing country and very poor. One day, a Christian missionary brought a boy my age to visit us. He was an orphan who lived in a cardboard box in the city of Teague. He ate dinner

Eternal Salvation in the Old Testament—The Salvation of Saul

August 30, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog - blog, Everlasting Life, Salvation in the Old Testament, Saul

by Zane C. Hodges, originally published in the May/June 1994 edition of Grace in Focus Paul stated a timeless truth when he wrote: Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.—Rom 3:20 Even under the law in the OT,

A Vast Difference: M. R. DeHaan on Salvation and Discipleship

August 26, 2016 by Shawn Lazar in Blog

By Shawn Lazar The vast majority of Christians believe you must be a disciple in order to be saved. They have it exactly backwards. You have to be saved in order to be a disciple. The problem with saying you must be a disciple in order to be saved is that it makes salvation depend

Undeserved Everlasting Life for Sinners and Undeserved Rejection for Jesus

August 25, 2016 by Brad Bell in Blog

by Brad Bell Different meanings of Dōrean Dōrean is an important NT word with two basic meanings: Freely Without cause These meanings are tied together in their basic sense. That which is “freely” given is given “without cause” in the recipient. It is thus free to the receiver of the gift. The related noun [dōrea]—gift

Suffering for Christ Leads to Glory

August 23, 2016 by Bob Wilkin in Blog

I have a pastor friend who has tattoos on each wrist. On one wrist he has the Greek word pathēma, which means suffering. On his other wrist he has the Greek word doxa, which means glory. I asked him about those tattoos. He told me they remind him that the degree to which he will

Reactive vs. Proactive

August 22, 2016 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - GES

By Shawn Lazar A few months ago I was contemplating advertising in Charisma, the flagship magazine for the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement. Usually, that wouldn’t be the first venue to come to mind. But in this case, I thought it was appropriate. Bob had just published A Gospel of Doubt: The Legacy of John MacArthur’s

Kidney Stones and Running

August 19, 2016 by GES Webmaster in Blog

by Bob Wilkin In my mid-forties I took up running again. I had run competitively (400m and 800m) in high school and college. Now I tried master’s track. I ran the 100 and 200. But I kept pulling my hamstring in the 200. So I tried the 400, 800, and 1500 meter runs. Then I