A publication of the Renewal Fellowship
A publication of the Renewal Fellowship
By Mariano Di Gangi. Some ecclesiastical conventions commence with invocation but conclude with provocation. Each General Assembly has its own character. At times, there is a prevailing calm. At others, vigorous debate and proliferating dissent. Much depends on the issues before the court … Read more
Reviewed by William Campbell. This readable study of 1 Corinthians will be helpful for Christians to trace Paul’s thought as he wrote to the church at Corinth, whose members were participating in the same serious sins as Presbyterians do in 1986! … Read more
Donald MacLeod describes the wide variety of seminars and talks that occurred at the Annual Meeting, with the theme, “The Holy Spirit and Ourselves”. A number of letters follow in reaction to the article on John Wimber in the previous issue … Read more
In this extensive article, Peter H. Davids examines several important reasons why people have reacted against the ministry of John Wimber, and he explains in detail what he perceives as Wimber’s main objectives. … Read more
J. Barry Forsyth represented the Renewal Fellowship at a meeting of renewal leaders in Washington D.C. With representatives of so many organizations present, it was evident that we are not alone in the Renewal Fellowship Within The Presbyterian Church in Canada. … Read more
By James I. Packer. The business of preachers of the Word is to be mouthpieces for God’s message, seeing their ministry of the Word as prophecy: precisely speaking the Word of God with application, as a message to the hearers. … Read more
By Don Lewis. Although what Wimber is doing in emphasizing the work of the Holy Spirit is a good and helpful thing, the author points out several theological objections and difficulties with his presentations. … Read more
Reviewed by Edmund F. Bloedow. Is the Bible “the word of God”? Or “the words of men”? Or “the word of God and the words of men combined”? Boice sets out to champion the first of these positions, the classic evangelical doctrine, the view that was believed throughout church history … Read more
By Donald Bloesch. Feminism has affected the liturgy and worship of the church, its governing bodies, its witness, its doctrine, and its sacred literature. In this book, Donald Bloesch critiques and challenges it. … Read more
Reviewed by Jerry & Elizabeth Zook. This is a well-placed critique of ideological feminism, which attempts to make God an imminent goddess and resymbolize the faith in current cultural dress, which erodes and devalues Trinitarianism. … Read more
Reviewed by J. H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. This is a fairly easy-to-read primer on the topic of what makes up the essential Reformed distinctives of the church. … Read more
Reviewed by Robert Larmer. It is impossible in a short book to cover comprehensively so vast and complex a subject as metaphysics, so Hasker wisely confines himself to four: (i) free will versus determinism, (ii) the mind-body problem, (iii) the nature of the world, i.e., realism versus idealism, and (iv) God’s relation to the world. … Read more
Reviewed by Alex Zeidman. We know from Scripture that both persons and societies can put their faith in things or forces which their own hands have made. In their pursuit of prosperity, salvation, health, protection and so forth, people sooner or later create gods. But gods will ultimately destroy their makers. … Read more
By John A. Vissers. The most remarkable aspect of the conference was the degree of openness on the part of the reformed theologians and pastors to Pentecostalism and the charismatic renewal, the sincere desire to articulate a biblical and contemporary doctrine of the Holy Spirit … Read more
As a member of the committee responsible for drafting the new statement of faith, Garth Wilson describes the questions and concerns that the committee had to deal with while writing the document. … Read more