TRUTH AT A GLANCE: NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
By E. J. Pace O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Romans 7:24
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES: IS JESUS A SOCIALIST?
When the question is posed: “Is Jesus a socialist?” The clear answer is “Of course not!” The claim that Jesus was a socialist was recently posed by Gregory Paul in The Washington Post who tries to argue for a biblically mandated socialism from the early chapters of Acts.1 Paul’s claims are nothing new and have likely arisen out of the overall debate our nation is involved in concerning socialism vs. free markets. President Obama and his crowd want socialism, while [...]
TESTIMONY: SECURITY – LOST AND FOUND
By Melissa Resch The first firecracker to go off in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, on July 4, 1982, was at 3:12 in the morning when I was born. As a blue-eyed, blonde girl growing up amidst a loving family in a small, logging town on the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota, I was never without the assurance of my parents’ love and care. I was secure. In His infinite wisdom and matchless grace, God gave me this security by placing me [...]
BlBLICAL LANGUAGES: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE GREEK GENITIVE ABSOLUTE
By Mark Perkins The genitive absolute is a construction of ancient Greek which isolates a few words in the genitive case and then refers them to another scene, event, or idea. It is full of meaning, a significant stylistic expression in the Greek language for centuries. The aim of this article is to introduce the reader to the meaning of the genitive absolute in order to enhance his understanding of the Greek New Testament and beyond. Wallace defines the structure [...]
A DAY AT THE FAIR: REALLY?! THE BIBLE ANSWERS THAT?!
By Joleen Miller Throughout the festival weekend, many people sat across the dusty plastic table and shared their opinions about God and Heaven. Sprinkled among humanists, Universalists, agnostics, Catholics, Lutherans, and people who described themselves as “a mixture,” members of one evangelical church in this town of about 1,000 residents also shared their views. Each person from this particular church shared the same answers on the survey. They declared that they were 100-percent certain that they were going to Heaven [...]
A VOICE FROM THE PAST: THE IMPARTED LIFE
By C. I. Scofield I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). This was the new note in the message of Jesus Christ. It fell, for the most part, upon uncomprehending ears. After nineteen centuries of alleged gospel preaching it is still for the most part uncomprehended. That Christ was a teacher of ethics, as in the Sermon on the Mount, is understood. That He died for our sins is, [...]
BOOK REVIEWS: C. I. Scofield, Lewis Sperry Chafer, and Trophies of God’s Grace
By Thomas L. Stegall Grace Gospel Press has recently published four edifying, instructive, and encouraging books for believers. GGP publishes authors from the past as well as the present who teach the Word of God from a dispensational, grace-oriented point of view in a manner that exalts the Lord Jesus Christ. Three of these recent books were written by classical dispensationalists of the past, C. I. Scofield and Lewis Sperry Chafer, who thoroughly grasped the truth that believers today are [...]
CHARACTER STUDY: RAHAB – CHOOSING TO TRUST GOD IN A PAGAN CULTURE
By Alice Mathews Imagine that you’re driving to the supermarket and you are approaching an intersection with a traffic light. When you are a hundred feet from the crossing, the light turns yellow. What decision are you likely to make in the next split second? Will you hit the accelerator hard and roar through, possibly on the yellow but probably on the red? Or will you hit the brake and take no chances? The decision you make in that split [...]
GROWTH TRUTH: SELF-IMPOSED BURDEN
By Miles J. Stanford “Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom. 5:1). Few see and stand upon the fact that our history in Adam ended on the Cross. Our past will plague us until we acknowledge that we are now clear of Adam and safely hidden in the risen Lord Jesus—newly-born creations in Him. One of the penalties of self-occupation is self-pity and corroding remorse. “Regret for a sinful past will remain [...]
COMMENTARY: “BY THEIR FRUITS YOU WILL KNOW THEM” (MATTHEW 7:21-23)
By Dennis M. Rokser As a new believer, I rejoiced greatly in my eternal salvation and security in Christ. And with great enthusiasm I began to read the Bible and “desire the pure milk of the Word” as a “newborn babe” (1 Peter 2:2). However, I began to find certain verses that were perplexing to me, which, at first glance, seemed to contradict the wonderful truth of salvation by grace and the reality of my eternal security in Christ. Since [...]