September 1, 2003   in Book Reviews

Baptism: The Believer’s First Obedience. By Larry Dyer. Grand Rapids , MI : Kregel Publications, 2000. 92 pp. Paper. $3.95. In this short booklet, Dyer adeptly and succinctly addresses the doctrine of Christian baptism. The book answers several important questions about baptism such as: What is it? Why do it? What is the mode of […]

September 1, 2003   in Book Reviews

Listening to the Spirit in the Text. By Gordon D. Fee. Grand Rapids , MI : Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2000. 180 pp. Paper. $12.00. Gordon Fee certainly needs no introduction. He is considered one of the greatest NT exegetes of our day. Although much of Fee’s work is aimed at a scholarly audience, he also […]

September 1, 2003   in Book Reviews

The Doctrines of Grace: Rediscovering the Evangelical Gospel.By James Montgomery Boice and Philip Graham Ryken. Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2002. 240 pp. Cloth. $17.99. The Doctrines of Grace by the late James Montgomery Boice, and his successor at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia , Philip Graham Ryken is an explanation and defense of Calvinistic theology. I […]

September 1, 2003 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

According to the Lord Jesus all who simply believe in Him have everlasting life. He said, “He who believes in Me has everlasting life” (John 6:47; see also 5:24). I well remember when it first hit me that eternal life is a present possession. As a senior in college it thrilled me to know that […]

September 1, 2003   in Grace in Focus Articles

by Dick Peik I assumed that good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell. I felt it was impossible to be certain where you were going when you died. Nobody I knew ever claimed to be saved. That would have been rather audacious—like bragging! Getting to heaven took work! That made sense […]

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 […]

July 1, 2003   in Grace in Focus Articles

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 […]

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