Vol 72 Issue 14

The influential Banner of Truth Trust in Scotland has just published Iain H. Murray’s Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism: The Battle for Gospel Preaching. The Trust intends the book to be major artillery in its war against the dread foe of hyper-Calvinism in Great Britain. Why in an England overrun with liberalism, the mysticism of the charismatic movement, and Arminianism, Murray and the Trust fix almost obsessively on the error of hyper-Calvinism is puzzling. Spurgeon himself, the champion whom Murray wheels out to fight for him in this new book, said of one of the leading hyper-Calvinists of his time, “Gill is...

Rev. DeVries is pastor of First Protestant Reformed Church in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.”  Hebrews 4:15, 16 What a High Priest we have! Our risen and exalted Savior, Jesus Christ, is our great High Priest. In the old dispensation the high priest would pass once a year,...