Volume 8 Issue 1
Summer 2023 | 65 pages
Articles
In this Issue
Dr. Kenneth McMullen’s analysis of Walter Marshall’s teaching on sanctification is an expansion of a chapter in his recently completed Doctor of Ministry project. The 74th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Denver Colorado last November included a symposium on John Piper’s recently published What Is Saving Faith? (Crossway, 2022). The responses were... READ MORE
Themes and Emphases in Walter Marshall’s The Gospel Mystery of Sanctification
Kenneth J. McMullen
How many Christians can describe sanctification biblically and clearly? Sanctification is the theological term most often used to describe the Christian life, or at least it has been in the past. Even one who can recite WSC Question 35 from memory may be hard pressed to define it without falling into one of two errors,... READ MORE
Faith and Treasuring Christ: A Review Article
Guy P. Waters
John Piper has long emphasized in his writings the affectional life of the Christian believer. In What Is Saving Faith?, Piper probes the relationship between saving faith and love for Christ.[1] Exploring dozens of passages from the Old and New Testaments and surveying the testimony of leading Reformed theologians, Piper advances the controversial thesis that... READ MORE
A Historical-Theological Response to John Piper’s What Is Saving Faith?
John V. Fesko
Pastor and theologian John Piper has recently published his book, What Is Saving Faith? where he makes the case that “there is in the very nature of saving faith some kind of affectional element.”[1] I am limiting my response largely to historical-theological claims that Piper makes in his book and his recent response to a... READ MORE
Remembering Timothy Keller
N. Gray Sutanto
The year was 2016, and Covenant City Church just had its first Sunday service in the center of the capital city of Indonesia. We began with a core team of about twenty locals, who had been regularly attending bible studies led by our pastoral team. If you asked anyone in that core team what led... READ MORE
