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Pouncers Or Pray-ers

July 1, 1992 by Art Farstad in Grace in Focus Articles

Pregnant? Someone’s got little Estelle pregnant? No! Who would have thought it?” The college/career Bible study had just ended with the hymn, “Jesus the Very Thought of Thee.” Now it was time to socialize. “She’s really wrecked her Christian testimony,” said Lex Pharis. “It sure won’t help our Bible study group either!” Jean van Dort

Hot Peppers and Cupped Hands: Cross-Cultural Prison Evangelism

July 1, 1992 by GES Webmaster in Grace in Focus Articles

by Jay Leatherman with Alfy Austin The scene was the Jefferson City Correctional Center in Jefferson City, Missouri. I came to the prison, not as a result of a felony, but as part of the Bill Glass Evangelistic Association Total Prison Weekend outreach. It was late on Saturday afternoon, my second day of sharing the

Short Sighted Believers (2 Peter 1:9)

May 1, 1992 by Zane Hodges in Grace in Focus Articles

For he who lacks these things is short sighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. The writer of this article has been nearsighted since grade school. My 7th grade teacher noticed me squinting as I tried to read the blackboard. She shared this observation with my parents,

Lordship Salvation: A Horse With Wheels

May 1, 1992 by GES Webmaster in Grace in Focus Articles

By Charlie Bing In a discussion I had with a seminary professor, the Lordship Salvation debate was characterized as follows: “Lordship Salvation puts the cart [works] before the horse [salvation through faith], but you in the Free Grace movement detach the cart from the horse.” Does Free Grace detach works from salvation and faith as

“Soul Salvation,” Part 5 — Suffering Which Results in Abundant Life — 1 Peter 1:9

May 1, 1992 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

“Receiving the end of your faith–the salvation of your souls.” This is the most difficult of the passages on “soul salvation” in the Bible, in my opinion. A casual reading of this text seems to suggest that eternal salvation is in view. This is suggested by the fact that the salvation in question is said

Grace When It Hurts

April 1, 1992 by Art Farstad in Grace in Focus Articles

This morning as I drew aside the drapes and looked out my bedroom window I saw a pale purple-and-gold-streaked sky that brought to mind this fine nineteenth century German hymn: When morning gilds the skies, My heart awaking cries: May Jesus Christ be praised; Alike at work or prayer To Jesus I repair: May Jesus

“Soul Salvation,” Part 4 Gaining by Losing – Matthew 16:24–28

April 1, 1992 by Bob Wilkin in Grace in Focus Articles

“Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what profit is it to a man if

Letters to the Editor

April 1, 1992 by GES Webmaster in Grace in Focus Articles

Dear GES Team, I just wanted to express my thanks and amen to what you stand for and how your newsletters are such a blessing. I have been blessed to be given an outreach in high schools across our great land. I am honored to be able to give the Grace Gospel in each school

Coming To Terms with Discipleship

March 1, 1992 by GES Webmaster in Journal Articles

Charles C. Bing* Discipleship affects every Christian. Not only are we to be disciples, but we are to make disciples of others. But what is a disciple? The meaning of discipleship has taken on greater significance with the unabating interest in the debate over the relationship between salvation and sanctification fueled by the Lordship Salvation

A Voice from the Past: Look and Live

March 1, 1992 by GES Webmaster in Journal Articles

This letter, written on March 20, 1840, is taken from Memoirs of McCheyne, ed. by Andrew A. Bonar (Chicago: The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, 1947, rep. 1976), 91-93. Our title was chosen from the words we have italicized in the first paragraph. Robert Murray McCheyne1 I do not even know your name, but I