By Thomas Torrance. Any minister who denies the deity of Christ should have the moral courage and honesty to resign from the holy ministry. … Read more
Everywhere, Always and by All
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
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 Spirit-Empowering Presence”: A Conference Review
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
Generosity: David at the Brook Besor – 1 Samuel 30
By Eugene H. Peterson. Those who are too tired to go on, or consigned to the sidelines because of lack of stamina, or resigned to a marginal status, need to hear the inward assurance of God's affirmation through the generous verdict of David at the Brook Besor. … Read more
Why I Need a Small Group (and maybe you do too!)
By J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. Why do I need a small group? To study and grow together. To learn to work together with variety of viewpoints. To be held accountable. To be encouraged and supported. To share deeply: to sorrow and to celebrate together. … Read more
Report on Assembly
By Calvin Brown. The Executive Director reports on the highlights of General Assembly, including worship, the death of Jack McIntosh, Young Adult Representatives, the Church Doctrine Committee report, and the presence of the Renewal Fellowship. … Read more
No Place for Truth, or, Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology and God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams, by David F. Wells
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
New Board of Directors Member Profiles
By Calvin Brown. The Executive Director introduces three new members of the Renewal Fellowship Board of Directors: Carolyn Dickie, Geoff Wood, and Bill Boycott. … Read more
More Than Coping, by Elizabeth Skoglund
Reviewed by Roma E. Bryant. This book helps us to realize that during suffering, we can cope, and that those we think of as giants of the faith still struggled as we do through terrible odds, and still coped. … Read more
The Preacher as Teaching Elder
By W. Stanford Reid. In a society that has rejected Christian moral standards, it is preachers’ responsibility teach doctrine to Christians, as well as how to apply the Christian faith to everyday life. How then should they teach this? … Read more
Can We Be Good Without God?
By Wallace Whyte. In place of a moral consensus based on God-given principles we have moral relativism. In practice it’s a moral vacuum. God’s way is not only the right way but the best way, the overall happy and healthy way. … Read more
Between Two Worlds: The Art of Preaching in the Twentieth Century, by John R.W. Stott
Reviewed by Gladys Anderson. This book sets forth the importance of preaching and the task of bridging the ever widening gap between the Word and the world. John Stott outlines his task under three main sections: 1. The relevance of preaching in the twentieth century, 2. preaching as a bridge builder, and 3. the essential foundation for effective preaching. … Read more
These Evangelical Churches of Ours, by Lloyd Mackey
Reviewed by Calvin Brown. Lloyd Mackey’s book uses the Canadian image of a mosaic to describe the variety of religious expression that evangelicals in Canada experience. … Read more
A Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians, by David Prior
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
Citizens of Another Kingdom: Living Now for the World to Come, by John E. Balchin
Reviewed by Greg Dallimore. The church has a message for the world and a ministry to it only when she is significantly different from the world. … Read more