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BOOK REVIEW VANISHING GRACE Philip Yancey It’s been nearly two decades since the publication of Philip Yancey’s “What’s So Amazing About Grace,” a life-altering book that is already a Christian classic. What the book taught me was that grace, like love and forgiveness, is not just...

Book Review WOUNDED BY GOD’S PEOPLE Anne Graham Lotz (Zondervan, 176pp, $20h) Back in the 80s, early in her speaking career, Bible teacher and popular speaker Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of evangelist Billy Graham and wife Ruth, was snubbed by a partisan group of male pastors who turned...

Book Review BAD BOYS OF THE BIBLE: EXPLORING MEN OF QUESTIONABLE VIRTUE Barbara J. Essex (Pilgrim Press, 122pp, $16p) Reading Barbara Essex has been thought-provoking, probably because she has the uncanny talent to affect how I study the Bible and how I view myself. If, as Sunday school...

THE FAITH INSTINCT How Religion Evolved & Why it Endures Nicholas Wade (Penguin Press, 320pp, $17p/$26h) I am sure the intellectuals of the world are befuddled. Why do so many humans, in fact the majority of us, believe in a Supreme Being, since there is so little empirical proof (the...

Book Review WHEN BAD CHRISTIANS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE Dave Burchett (WaterBrook Press, 256pp, $15p) I sometimes wish I had a dollar, even a quarter, for every person who has told me how they have been wounded by a Christian or church (and so have become spiritual whiners or quitters). It...

SIMPLY C.S. LEWIS: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE Thomas C. Peters (Crossword, 270pp, $15p) Thomas C. Peters (Battling for the Modern Mind, The Christian Imagination) has provided a valuable resource in his book “Simply C.S. Lewis: A Beginner’s Guide to His Life and Works.” It is a guide for rookie...

Book Review THE INSANITY OF GOD: A TRUE STORY OF FAITH RESURRECTED Nik Ripken (B&H Publishing, 384pp, $15p) Having served among persecuted Christians for years, some mercilessly slaughtered by religious fanatics, missionary Nik Ripken (pseudonym) one day walked through the war-torn...

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All modern translations of the Bible translate the phrase “word of God” in Romans 10.17 as “the message of Christ,” i.e., the Gospel, the Good News that Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Hence faith comes through hearing the Gospel. The scripture is talking about saving faith which only...

The centurion did more than trust what Jesus said … he trusted Him. Even a deaf person can trust without being able to hear a word; blind and illiterate and mentally deficient people can trust without being able to read or understand anything that is told them; even those who are politically...

Jesus commended the centurion as having “great faith” because he openly demonstrated his trust in Jesus’ ability (and willingness). The lesson is, if we will trust God in Christ to do what is right at the same level as the centurion did, we will also exhibit great faith. Oswald...

Franky, You probably already know this but ... While I personally believe Mark 16.20, I do acknowledge that many evangelical NT scholars do not accept Mark 16.9-20 as part of the canon or are at least dubious about its inclusion. That final section of Mark’s Gospel is not found in more...

No, I am saying (with Oswald Chambers), "Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time." That is Great Faith. :)

So, you have to be educated to have faith or at least a TV so you can hear the latest faith super-star teach you what faith is? How does an illiterate aborigine in any third- or fourth-world country ever get faith? IMO, faith does not come from learning (understanding)—only literate, educated...

So, you have to be educated to have faith or at least a TV so you can hear the latest faith super-star teach you what faith is? How does an illiterate aborigine in any third- or fourth-world country ever get faith? IMO, faith does not come from learning (understanding)—only literate, educated...

Of course I said that, Optimax. IMO, WOF’ers have made such a mess of the doctrine of faith it will take decades to return the church to the truth. That’s why "faith" (at least their brand of faith) doesn’t work like they say it should and why they have to write volumes on a subject that should...

And what IF what you believe he said is wrong? Franky, I am not here to defend Greg Boyd’s theology, just to let people know what is in his book. I do not know (or care) where he stands on miracles or whether or not he is P/C/W or secessationist or not. But I do know that he makes a good...

I think he understands it better than most WOF'ers I have encountered. And why aren't some of your prayers answered as you ask them to be answered. :)

My question to WOF’ers has always been, if these proof-texts are as foolproof (as you claim) then why don’t they work (as you claim they should)? I have been prayed for by WOF’ers many times and it wasn’t a lack of faith on either of our parts, yet the prayer was not answered, at least not as...