DOCTRINE: THREE ARGUMENTS FOR THE CESSATION OF TONGUES, Pt. 3

Robert L. Dean, Jr. The termination of knowledge and prophecy in the Church Age is confirmed by the apostle’s two illustrations. “When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.” (1 Cor. 13:11) In this analogy, the child represents the incomplete knowledge available to the nascent, precanon Church. Just as a child has inadequate knowledge to live as [...]

2019-02-10T01:38:23+00:00April 2nd, 2014|

CHARACTER STUDY: DAVID AND GOLIATH

By Theodore H. Epp David was not stopped by such ridicule. He first had to contend with his brother, then with King Saul and finally with Goliath. He dealt with his brother very quickly, answering him with questions: “What have I now done? Is there not a cause?” (1 Sam. 17:29). God’s reputation was at stake, and that was David’s concern. David could not be stopped by Eliab’s criticism and slander. There was a cause, and David went right to [...]

2019-02-10T01:40:44+00:00April 2nd, 2014|

BOOK REVIEWS: GGP NEW PUBLICATIONS

By Roy B. Zuck & Tom Stegall Grace Gospel Press has several new publications that we would like to introduce here as we trust that the Lord will use these materials for the edification, encouragement, and spiritual instruction of believers around the globe. Each book is available for purchase at Amazon or Barnes & Noble, while hardcopies of the two booklets can be ordered directly from the Grace Gospel Press website. All books and booklets are available as ebooks from [...]

2019-02-10T01:38:54+00:00April 2nd, 2014|

A VOICE FROM THE PAST: DID JESUS RISE?

By C. I. Scofield “This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.” (Acts 2:32) No one can read with attention the last chapters of the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles or the Epistles, without a profound conviction that the resurrection of Jesus Christ was to the first witnesses to Christianity a fact in which they had an undoubted belief, a joyous and triumphant confidence. Was that belief grounded upon adequate testimony? Were those men constrained to [...]

2019-02-10T01:39:01+00:00April 2nd, 2014|

TESTIMONY: AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU

By Bernie Bischoff I grew up the oldest of ten children on Minnesota’s Iron Range.1 My family lived in the blue-collar, hard-drinking town of Hibbing, where my father had been born. The iron ore mines were bustling while I was growing up, and the economy prospered. Men with high school educations had money to buy nice homes, cabins, cars, trucks, boats, snowmobiles, and alcohol. For many people on “the Range,” drinking alcohol was an end in itself. “Let’s go drinking” [...]

2019-02-10T01:39:08+00:00April 2nd, 2014|

GROWTH TRUTHS: EARTHLY, OR HEAVENLY?

By Miles J. Stanford “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ” (Eph. 1:3). The New Testament believer’s spiritual growth is not based upon Old Testament doctrine. We are not to neglect the Old, but its introduction of the law was designed to lead to the grace of the New. For a believer who is not yet established in the risen Lord Jesus, it [...]

2019-02-10T01:39:29+00:00April 2nd, 2014|

COMMENTARY: CAN A BELIEVER FALL AWAY? (HEBREWS 6:4-6)

By Dennis Rokser For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame. (Heb. 6:4-6) Who are the Recipients of this Epistle? This [...]

2019-02-10T01:39:41+00:00April 2nd, 2014|

COVER: Another Classic Book Reprinted

By Dennis Rokser In a day of shallow, feel good, doctrinally weak-to-wrong preaching and writing, I find it very refreshing to see doctrinally sound and edifying books from the past being reprinted. Thus, my gratitude goes out to the staff of Grace Gospel Press for putting back into circulation an excellent biblical character study regarding the life of the Old Testament prophet Elijah from Theodore Epp. (See the review on p. 15.) When I came to place my faith in [...]

2019-02-10T01:39:35+00:00April 2nd, 2014|