A publication of the Renewal Fellowship
A publication of the Renewal Fellowship
By Bryn MacPhail. Why does God allow suffering? Our heavenly Father, who is all-powerful, all-wise, and all-loving, has a plan when He allows His children to suffer. When we confess that God is sovereign, we confess that He is sovereign over everything — even suffering. And this is a good thing. … Read more
Reviewed by Calvin Brown. This is a major work which reflects a lifetime of both scholarly and devotional interaction with Scripture. Encyclopedic in scope, it deals not only with the history and methodology of biblical theology but with the flow of salvation history. … Read more
By John A. Vissers. The holiness of the church is one of the marks of the church. It refers to the purity of the church's faith and life, and the sanctity of its doctrine and practice. Holiness is at the very centre of renewal. The impetus to sanctification begins with a vision of God's holiness as is found in Isaiah 6. … Read more
By Joseph Gray. Christian believers are encouraged to rediscover the richness and beauty of the Judaic roots of our faith. The full significance of the events of Passion Week, the most powerful, beautiful, and meaningful of the entire Christian year, can be properly understood only within the context of the Passover festival. … Read more
By Calvin Brown. Theological fences (creeds and confessions) are useful to help people understand their faith, but they can also be used to persecute people. The temptation is to tear down all fences rather than develop the maturity to discern which fences are good and which ones are not. … Read more
By Darrell W. Johnson. The question "What stripe of Christian are you?" has validity amidst theological diversity. Darrell Johnson is not yet what he wants to be: a faithful, grace-filled, grateful, joyful, Christ-centered, Spirit-filled, Trinitarian servant who will do all he can to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with the world. … Read more
By C. Baxter Kruger. To have a relationship with Jesus, we must be willing to rethink everything we thought we knew, so that we can see more clearly and experience the liberation and joy and life of such clearer sight. With this in mind, Dr. Kruger re-examines the meaning of the cross. … Read more
Reviewed by Stan Cox. Christian doctrine, such as the Trinity and the two natures of Jesus Christ, are meant to enable the flourishing of human excellence by promoting people's enjoyment of God. A tour of Christian theologians who taught in the tradition of classic orthodoxy bears this out. … Read more
By Eugene Peterson. The church at Ephesus, established by Paul, was, at first, the model church, but by the time Timothy was sent there, had become a mess, with a culture of religion without commitment, spirituality without content, and not much concern about God. What did Timothy do about it? … Read more
By Calvin Brown. Among Christians there has always been a tension between law and gospel, between living in grace and forgiveness and the call to holiness and justice, between freedom to choose what we think best for us as individuals and losing our moral compass. … Read more
By David D. Stewart. It has taken me most of my adult life to come to the point of recognizing a bit of what was wrapped up in the words across the great arch high above the pulpit in Knox Church, Toronto, in my childhood: "Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." … Read more
By John G. Stackhouse, Jr. Every year as I teach my survey course on world religions at university, I dread having to teach the Christian faith for two main reasons. First, all religions have difficult and complicated features. But Christianity has inexplicable mysteries at its very heart that simply have to be discussed even in an introduction to its teachings. … Read more
By Gunar Kravalis. Although Living Faith is an acceptable statement of Christian belief, a close examination reveals it to contain serious flaws that make it unsuitable to be adopted as a subordinate standard, an official creed, or a confession of the church. … Read more
By Dan Matthewson. Although predestination is a "minority" doctrine today, in Christian history, predestination is a "majority" doctrine. Calvin didn't invent this doctrine – he simply inherited a doctrine resoundingly accepted throughout the annals of church history. … Read more
Reviewed by J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. Gunar Kravalis demonstrates that Living Faith is an acceptable statement of contemporary Christian belief, and provides reflections which will be useful in the faith and life of all Christians … Read more
Reviewed by David Stewart. Professor Wells is at his very best when summarizing what has supplanted the passion for truth within Evangelicalism, making it clear what has crept into the center in place of truth. … Read more
By Frederick W. Metzger. There is a fundamental difference in attitude between humanistic and spiritual people. But why are there so many differences among spiritually-minded people who see and interpret the Bible in so many, often contradictory ways? … Read more