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I’ve received many calls and emails about my Mar-April article on the necessity of belief in eternal security. Three questions in particular need clarification. I wasn’t saying that if you’ve never believed that assurance is of the essence of saving faith, you’ve not yet been born again. One reader wondered that since I admitted to […]
by Brian Fisher* The spiritual hunger of college-aged men and women has manifested itself in recent years through a ministry called Passion led by Louie Giglio. In January of 1997 two thousand students attended the first Passion Conference in Austin, Texas. In January of 1998 five thousand students attended the second conference. In January […]
The issue of when eternal life starts came to the forefront in our annual conference this year (Feb 27-Mar 2, 2006). Both Zane Hodges and Bob Bryant said that if a person has never been sure that he is eternally secure by faith in Jesus, then he has not yet been born again. Yet an […]
How Firm a Foundation: The Dispensations in the Light of the Divine Covenants. By Hal Harless. New York : Peter Lang Publishing, 2004. 318 pp. $73.95 Hal Harless has done a nice piece of work by making an original contribution to the current scholarly debate between covenantal and dispensational theologians. As a dispensationalist Harless’ main […]
How Good is Good Enough? By Andy Stanley. Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 2003. 92 pp. Cloth. $9.99. Andy Stanley’s small evangelistic book takes readers on an intellectual quest. Instead of telling them what to believe, with proof texts, he leads them to draw the logical conclusion that no one enters heaven by being good—only by […]
The Five Points of Calvinism Defined, Defended, and Documented. By David N. Steele; Curtis C. Thomas; S. Lance Quinn. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2004. 247 pp. Paper, $12.99. I’ll admit it—I’ve been corrected by the Calvinists. As I read this book, I made notes and prepared my review, and was planning to blast the book. But […]
At the GES national conference this May, we will conduct a Vacation Bible School (VBS) for the children. The theme this year is “The Crowns in the Kingdom.” Throughout the week,...
Welcome to the Grace in Focus podcast. Bob Wilkin and Sam Marr are answering a question about (Psalm 103:12) our transgressions being “removed” from us:...
In part 1, I identified the major difference between the tests-of-life and the tests-of-fellowship views of First John. We saw that assurance of everlasting life is impossible for anyone who believes in the tests-of-life view. While someone might prefer...
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