By Arthur Van Seters. If the Kingdom or Reign of God is unexpected newness, its ethic is unlikely to conform to conventional wisdom; it is most likely to be significantly different from what people expected, both then and now. … Read more
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Letter to the Editor
By Cal Chambers. What about the catholic and charismatic dimensions of church renewal? Can we as Presbyterians have a renewal which is divorced from the whole church? Can we ignore what God is doing in other denominations … Read more
Inclusive Language and Modern Worship
By Ian McPhee. If the issue was simply a matter of changing hymns to avoid an appearance of exclusive male reference at the human level only, there could be little objection. But language about God cannot be changed without severing ties to Christian tradition. … Read more
The Uniqueness of Christ
By John P. Vaudry. Ours is a difficult challenge – to make known the uniqueness of Christ in a secular, pluralistic society. But with love, boldness and wisdom, in the power of the Holy Spirit, it can be done. … Read more
The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man, by Abraham Heschel
Reviewed by J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. Heschel’s concept of spirituality and of the holiness of the sabbath day is a broad, open-ended one, parallelling Christ’s view of the sabbath. It is not merely a day of abstention but of affirmation. … Read more
Christian Ethics
By Dennis Stoutenburg. Christians should become more concerned about not just presenting the message of Jesus to a lost world but of presenting him in a manner that is practically effective and socially persuasive. Should not every investigation of sacred Scripture ring ethically and morally true? … Read more
Is Christ the Only Way?
By Clark H. Pinnock. The ideology of pluralism fills the air of Western culture and puts tremendous pressure on Christian claims surrounding the uniqueness of Christ. This ideology stems from secular humanism … Read more
Against the Night, by Charles Colson
Reviewed by Roma E. Bryant. Even though the church today is shot through with individualism that cripples its witness and is made up of sinners, it is the one institution that has the capability to challenge culture by bearing witness to God’s standards of justice and righteousness. … Read more
Prayer, by Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Reviewed by J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. This may be a theological book but it is theology as poetry, theology as a way of understanding the language of the Scriptures as much as the doctrine of the Scriptures. … Read more
Disappointment with God, by Philip Yancey
Reviewed by Roma E. Bryant. Working from real life situations, Philip Yancey is making a supreme effort to provoke us to give more than a passing glance to three questions that are rarely asked aloud: Is God unfair? Is God silent? Is God hidden? … Read more
No Other Gospel
By Donald G. Bloesch. Theologically, there is a move from Trinitarianism to Unitarianism, from particularism to universalism. God is no longer “Father, Son, and Spirit” but now “the God beyond God.” The church may well be engaged in the not too distant future in a battle for the Trinity. … Read more
The Ministry of God
By Thomas W. Gillespie. The ministry of the church, properly speaking, belongs to the triune God who distributes the work of the Spirit to each and every member of the Christian community. … Read more
Worship Workshop: The Challenge of Solidarity
By Joe Reed. As evangelicals enter new relationships with Third World Christians, God through them challenges how we look at the world, shaking both the content and the vocabulary of those relationships. … Read more
The Fullness of Faith: A Study of Psalm 103
By Brian J. Fraser. The problem, quite frankly, is that we do not take the Scriptures seriously. The Scriptures as a whole, that is. … Read more
Our Forgotten Treasure
By John P. Vaudry. Those who came before us were wise in choosing the Westminster Confession as the official Presbyterian creed. Our standards were formulated with great care by the pastor-theologians of the Westminster Assembly. As Presbyterians we ought to be familiar with our distinctives. … Read more
Contemplating Our Place in Heaven
By Esther McIlveen. A few summers ago in a creative writing workshop a group of us experienced the electrifying results that can happen when the reality of heaven comes alive. … Read more
Tithing – a Spring-board to Generosity
By Esther Mcllveen. Tithing is both the wisest investment of our money, as well as a command first given to the Children of Israel. Tithing was not just a requirement of the wealthy, for in Exodus the “poor were instructed not to give less.” Tithing was to become the norm for all the children of God. … Read more