The Prologue of the Fourth Gospel

A review of Peter M. Phillips’s The Prologue of the Fourth Gospel1 by Bob Swift2 This is a book that Free Grace readers should take a look at for more than one reason. First, and just as the title states, it contains an interpretation of crucial subject matter – the first eighteen verses of John’s
Hyper-Calvinism & the Call of the Gospel

Hyper-Calvinism & the Call of the Gospel.Revised Edition. By David J. Engelsma. Grand Rapids: Reformed Free Publishing Association, 1994. 216 pp. Paper, $13.95. The author, a committed Calvinist, on the one hand rejects that hyper-Calvinist view that God is not calling everyone to believe in Christ and be born again. However, on the other hand
Acting on Our Union with Christ: Romans 6:12-23
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey it with its lusts, neither turn over your body’s members as instruments for unrighteousness, but turn yourselves over to God as people who are alive from the dead, and turn over your body’s members to God as instruments for righteousness. For
Perseverance: It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over
Stephen R. Lewis* Introduction To quote Charles Dickens: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of
The Return to Ritual: Should Free Grace Churches Adopt Ash Wednesday, Lent, and Other Emergent Church Practices?
Philippe R. Sterling I. Introduction: What Is Happening Today? U.S. News and World Report1 and Christianity Today (CT)2 not long ago ran cover stories about Evangelicals adopting historic church rituals. Christianity Today introduced its feature article with the cover-page declaration, “Lost Secrets of the Ancient Church: How Evangelicals started looking back to move forward.” CT
The Evangelistic Message of the Emerging Church
Robert Vacendak* I. Introduction Describing the Emerging Church (designated as EC hereafter) is difficult.1 This is due to the fact that the EC movement is a somewhat recent phenomenon (most say it began in the 1990s) and is fairly diverse in most theological categories. In 2007, the Myers Professor of Ministry at Northern Seminary, Robert
A Critical Perspective: Orthodoxy, the Right Jesus, and Eternal Life
Lon Gregg* I. Introduction: Error and Christian Faith Many years ago, before YouTube, before even “Candid Camera,” television host Art Linkletter made a big hit with the “Kids Say the Darndest Things” segment on his weekly show. Children would say cute things that struck his studio audience (and millions of homemakers tuning in for the
What Is a Christian?
The word Christian is only found three times in the Bible. In this message, Bob Wilkin explores exactly what the word Christian means in its Biblical use.
Spiritual Aftershock
Apologies again for the low quality recording. This too was converted from an old cassette tape.
