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Saved from God by God
Vol. 5, No. 2 • Mar/Apr 1996
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.” Undoubtedly the most familiar words in the English Bible, John 3:16 rightly holds the highest place in the Christian memory. For in one succinct sentence, it announces the center of biblical […]
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Saved From God
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.” Undoubtedly the most familiar words in the English Bible, John 3:16 rightly holds the highest place in the Christian memory. For in one succinct sentence, it announces the center of biblical […]
An Interview with Dr. Ann Douglas
Hailed as “one of the leading feminists of our time,” Dr. Ann Douglas is Professor of American Studies at Columbia University and has also taught at Princeton and Harvard. Her highly acclaimed work, The Feminization of American Culture, was followed recently by Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920’s. One of Dr. Douglas’s main theses […]
Brother, Are You Saved?
“The great day of the Lord is near-near and coming quickly. Listen! The cry on the day of the Lord will be bitter, the shouting of the warrior there. That day will be a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, […]
Raised For Our Justification
It is a commonplace of theology that the life of the incarnate Son of God can be divided into two major states. Reformed theologians call these two states the state of humiliation and the state of exaltation. The humiliation of Christ begins with his incarnation, when the divine Word of God left the bliss of […]
No Ordinary Death
There is no way this side of eternity we will ever be able to fully understand the words of our Lord recorded in Matthew 27:46: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” As the mob mocked him, and while the thief who was crucified next to him hurled insults at him, our Lord’s […]
A Dying Man’s Consolation
Dismissing his doctor’s orders, J. Gresham Machen, beaten down by a career of struggling for the Faith even within his own communion, kept his commitments to a small circle of Orthodox Presbyterian parishes in South Dakota. “I have too much to do,” he insisted, as his chest was even then tight from pneumonia. The next […]
