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The Johannine Jesus and the Synoptic Jesus

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  • Richard Bauckham

The four Gospels are different. Is this a canonical problem? If there is four different accounts of Jesus, can we trust what we read about Jesus as a historical figure? This article focusses mainly on the fourth Gospel, the book of John, in relation to these questions.

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The Canonicity of the Four Gospels

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  • Richard Bauckham

Why does our New Testament contain four Gospels? Why not more? Or fewer? There are other Gospels which did not become part of our New Testament. This article affirms the four Gospels' canonicity by discussing their unique characteristics.

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The Authenticity of Apostolic Eyewitness in the New Testament

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  • Richard Bauckham

The canonicity of the Gospels was an issue that arose in the period from the second to third century. In this time the church was determining the authority of these Gospels. In this article Richard Bauckham looks briefly at the way in which apostolic eyewitness functioned as a criterion of authenticity.

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How God Sees Me

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  • Lydia Brownback

Where do you find your identity? The gospel tells us that because of our union with Christ we are no longer defined by sin. We are called according to God’s purpose and given a secure future where we shall enjoy an endless fellowship with God.

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Two Ways We Get the Gospel Wrong, One Way to Get It Right

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  • Timothy W. Massaro

How are you saved? Many people miss seeing Christ as the basis for our salvation and the fountain from which we draw for our moral life. This article reflects on two ways you can misunderstand the gospel, and explains the only way to get it right.

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How We Can Know God Wants to Be with Us

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  • Leah Baugh

The Bible tells us that God is with us, in the world, through Christ. The gospel also teaches us that God pursues us. The article discusses how you can know that God wants to be with us.

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Christianity Isn't Just about Forgiveness

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  • Ian K. Smith

Is Christianity simply about forgiveness? This article argues that the gospel message is about not only forgiveness but also restoration through the resurrection of Jesus.

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Gospel Theology

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  • J. A. Medders

What do we mean by the term "gospel"? The article provides a concise definition of the gospel and explains how this gospel is the base from which theology springs.

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How Important Is the Gospel

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  • Sam Storms

Why should the gospel be central? This article points to biblical texts to reveal the importance of the gospel for the whole of the Christian life.

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One More Reason Why We Stink at Evangelism

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  • Sam Storms

Why is it that many Christians are reluctant when it comes to sharing the gospel? What is the main reason for not evangelizing? One of the reasons for not sharing the gospel is that often people do not know what the gospel is. To overcome this problem, the article explains what the gospel is.

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Ten Things You Should Know about the Gospel

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  • Sam Storms

What is the gospel? When defining the gospel, take into consideration the ten things the article explains.

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Walking Straight toward Gospel Truth

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  • Dennis E. Johnson

What is the gospel and how does it shape life? In Galatians 2:11-16 Christians are not only given the meaning of the gospel; they are also shown how the gospel shapes all of life.

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Are Churches Secularizing America?

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  • Michael Horton

This article considers why the gospel is absent from much of American Christianity. It explains that many churches in America have embraced moralism, pop-psychology, and therapeutic deism.

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When the Good News Becomes Bad

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  • R. Scott Clark

What is a threat to the gospel? When the message of justification is confused with the law, church membership, and work, then the gospel becomes bad news.

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How to Care about Social Justice and Get the Gospel Right

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  • Joshua Martin

How should Christians address the issue of social justice? The answer is not by turning to social gospel but by turning to the true gospel.

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Personal Responsibility and the Gospel

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  • Foppe Vanderzwaag

What is our personal responsibility with a view to the gospel? This article reflects on what kind of response God requires of us to his covenant promises.

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My Confession: Toward a More Balanced Gospel

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  • Paul David Tripp

Preaching only the gospel of grace is preaching an imbalanced gospel. This article explains that the balanced gospel is preached when grace and justice are preached together..

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The Gospel and Genesis

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  • Robert Beckett

This article shows that without the book of Genesis, the gospel will not make sense and will be unnecessary.

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If Christ Is Not Raised

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  • Jeff Robinson

This article explains the centrality of the resurrection of Christ for the gospel. It discusses what the consequences would be if Christ had not been raised from the dead.

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No Soft Soap The Gospel is Confronting, Compromising on that is a Betrayal

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  • John MacArthur

Has the church growth movement become pragmatic, compromising the gospel in its preaching? This article answers in the affirmative, explaining that the gospel message is a confrontational message.

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The Power Crisis

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  • Michael Horton

The apostle Paul, with all the problems he experienced in Corinth, wrote that the power of the gospel lies in preaching Christ crucified. The church has always needed to hear about sin, judgment, grace, and redemption.

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What Is the Gospel?

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  • Doug Van Meter

What is the gospel? The gospel is the good news of what God has done for believing sinners in his Son. This article unpacks this definition and shows why it is important to answer the question correctly.

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Evangelism in the Established Church: Practicing Personal Evangelism – Seeking the Salvation of the Lost

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  • Jason L. Kortering

Every Christian has a desire to share the gospel with unbelievers. Often the challenge is how one does it. In this article the goal of evangelism is shared: we want to see the sinner’s salvation in a way that glorifies God for his work.

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Moralism Is Not the Gospel (But Many Christians Think It Is)

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  • R. Albert Mohler Jr.

Though some Christians think moralism is the gospel, it is actually the belief that the gospel can be reduced to improvements in behaviour. So it cannot be the gospel. What is the gospel? The article answer, read on...

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The Biblical Gospel

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  • D. A. Carson

This article mourns the misunderstanding now prevalent in relation to the gospel of Christ. It starts with an attempt to provide a biblical understanding of the use of nouns and verbs related to the word "gospel" and proceeds to explain what is meant by that word. The definition covers the basic message of the biblical story and also details how it must be told today in order to faithfully reflect the biblical message.

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The Gospel and Justification

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  • Alan C. Clifford

For the doctrine of justification by faith alone to be understood, it must be seen within the wider context of the gospel. This article therefore first answers the question, "What is the gospel?" and then tries to explain what both justification and faith are.

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The "Gospel" According to Rome

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  • Nathan Busenitz

This article showcases the Roman Catholic teaching regarding the essence of the gospel. It demonstrates that according to Rome, salvation is not by grace through faith alone, good works are necessary for salvation, baptism brings forgiveness of sins, Christ's sacrifice on the cross is not sufficient to send the redeemed directly to heaven, and Christ's sacrifice is repeated every time the Mass is celebrated.

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The Gospel of the Glory: What Makes the Good News Good News

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  • Mike Riccardi

What is it that makes the good news the good news? This article, in considering 2 Corinthians 4:4, shows that the gospel is the glory of God in the face of Christ.

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The Choice … Man's or God's?

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  • Peter Eldersveld

What should be the starting point in the salvation of man? With whom should our gospel start? In view of the fact that God elects his people unto salvation, can the church then sit back and wait, and can the sinner can be ignorant and complacent? These are the questions that this article attempts to answer.

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The Gospel: An "It" or a "He"?

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  • Marcus Peter Johnson

How would you define the gospel? As something, or someone? This article stresses the need for seeing the gospel as the crucified and risen Christ.

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Improving the Gospel or Losing the Gospel?

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  • Mark Dever

This article advances several threats to the gospel today, such as attempts to make the gospel social, relevant, or kinder.

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The Gospel Was Given for a Time Like This

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  • Tim Challies

Are you suffering from fatigue because of the bad things happening in this world? You should be encouraged to know that the gospel was not given to a world without sin, confusion, difficulty, and persecution. It was given to a world marked by every kind of pain and perversity. It was given for a time like this.

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Gospel Renewal

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  • James Danner

The gospel is at the heart of the Christian life. This article argues that the gospel should be an everyday thing. It discusses the joy of the gospel, the change the gospel brings, the identity it creates, and the love of the Father in the gospel.

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The Hellenistic "Divine Man" and the Figure of Jesus in the Gospels

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  • Walter L. Liefeld

In Greek culture in the New Testament period, there were men who claimed to work miracles—wise men who were known as "divine men." There are scholars who in trying to prove a Hellenistic origin of the gospel compare Jesus Christ to these men. The title of Son of God is seen as from a Greek background. This paper compares Jesus with these Greek men

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The Uses of the Gospel and the Law in Subservience to the Gospel

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  • John Colquhoun

This article explains the use of the gospel and the law in relation to believers and unbelievers. It also shows how the law relates to the gospel.

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Present Day Evangelism

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  • Arthur W. Pink

When evangelism makes the winning of souls its goal it is doomed to fall into error. It misses the point that evangelism should have God's glory as its aim. To argue this point, this article looks at what the gospel is.

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A Defense of Calvinism as the Gospel

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  • David J. Engelsma

This article offers a defense of Calvinism as the gospel.

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Is Calvinism the Gospel?

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  • Mitch Cervika

TULIP shapes Calvinism's understanding of evangelism. It carefully defines man’s need of God’s grace, and summarizes the great acts performed by the Triune God to save men from their sins. This article shows that the Calvinistic way of presenting the gospel follows in the footsteps of Christ as he presented the gospel.

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Eight Summarizing Words on the Gospel

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  • D. A. Carson

What should be our understanding of the gospel? From 1 Corinthians 15:1-12 this article shows that the gospel is Christological, theological, biblical, apostolic, historical, personal, universal, and eschatological. Then it shows how this understanding impacts the practice of the Christian life.

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What Is the Gospel Message?

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  • J. I. Packer

Evangelism is all about the gospel. What makes the message a gospel message? The gospel message is about God, sin, Christ, and faith and repentance. This article explains these four ingredients.

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Life's Biggest Questions – What Are Life's Biggest Questions

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  • Erik Thoennes

How does one live a meaningful life? Chapter 1 sets out to provide an answer to this question by focusing on the basics of what Christians believe. The heartbeat of it all is the gospel of Jesus Christ; this is how God restores sinful people to himself.

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Christ the Conqueror

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  • Charles H. Spurgeon

The article is an attempt to discover the gospel message that can be found in Genesis 3:15. Thus the article finds in this verse alone both salvation and judgment, the blessing and the curse, all to be effected through the seed of the woman.

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Rhythms of Grace – The Song of Eden

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  • Mike Cosper

This book is a challenge to worship leaders to discover how the gospel reshapes every dimension and element of worship. The author makes the bold statement that the gospel is the story of worship. In Chapter 1 he starts to tell that story at Genesis 2 in the Garden of Eden. Worship is rooted in the eternal love of God.

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Distinguishing Things Which Differ

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  • W. J. Grier

What are the presuppositions that must govern the presentation of the gospel? This article shows that there are two: the holiness of God and the separation of man from God because of sin.

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The Gospel

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  • Timothy J. Keller

Christianity is knowing God, and at the heart of knowing God is the gospel. This article shows what the gospel is and what hinders people from knowing the gospel.

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Why Moralism Is Not the Gospel – And Why So Many Christians Think It Is

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  • R. Albert Mohler Jr.

Moralism is not the gospel. Why? Because it makes the gospel a message of moral improvement. What is the gospel then? This article will answer this question.

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The Centrality of the Gospel

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  • Timothy J. Keller

From Galatians 2:14 this article shows that all of life should be in line with the gospel. However, moralism and relativism steal this call from believers.

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Finding Simon in the Gospels: Commentaries and Preaching

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  • Jakob van Bruggen

In this article the author shows that the four Gospels should be understood in the context of the gospel. The work of Jesus Christ is examined in the light of the work of God the Father, and it is shown how Jesus as the bearer of good news brings restoration.

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Fulfillment of the Scriptures: Commentaries and Preaching

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  • Jakob van Bruggen

What is the gospel? In this article the author shows that the four Gospels should be understood in the context of the gospel. The work of Jesus Christ is looked at in relation to the fulfillment of prophecies, and it is shown how Jesus comes as the bearer of good news.

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It All Hangs Together: Commentaries and Preaching

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  • Jakob van Bruggen

What is the gospel? In this article the author shows that the four Gospels should be understood in the context of the gospel. The work of Jesus Christ is looked at in relation to the work of John the Baptist, and it is shown how Jesus comes as the bearer of good news.

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Blessed Are the Persecuted

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  • Andrew de Vries

The Bible is clear that persecution is part of the Christian life. It also makes it clear that being persecuted for Christ's name is a blessing, for persecution shows that one is in a relationship with Jesus Christ, it strengthens faith, it brings reward, and it gives courage to advance the gospel.

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Christless Christianity: Getting in Christ’s Way

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  • Michael Horton

What is Satan's biggest strategy? This article shows that it is keeping people from seeing Christ (Christ-centredness). Christless Christianity is the challenge that is facing the church today. This challenge can be traced back to the Sadducces and the Pharisees. Christ is denied through the teaching that the gospel does not include the wrath of God, but only His love.

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Basics of the Reformed Faith: The Law and the Gospel

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  • Kim Riddlebarger

Is a Christian still required to keep the law? This article shows that the relationship between the law and the gospel is found in both the Old and New Testament - in the law God makes His demands, and in the gospel He provides what He demands.

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Preach the Gospel

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  • Omri T. Jenkins

The church is called to follow in the footsteps of the apostles in carrying on the mandate to preach the gospel. This gospel is the gospel of God, proclaimed to all, which is dependent upon God's grace and rooted in Christ's accomplished work.

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Rejecting Good News

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  • Guy de Clerc

The exclusivity of the gospel can lead to rejection of the gospel. Looking at Jews, Romans, and Gentiles, this article shows why these groups of people rejected the gospel in the past. The author also discusses why the gospel may be rejected today.

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The Gospel

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  • Roger Fay

By comparing the gospel to a jewel, the Bible points us to the many facets of the gospel. Therefore, in preaching and evangelism the gospel should not be limited, but all of its many facets can be used to point people to Christ.

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The Gospel Message

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  • Ken Wimer

The gospel of Christ is the good news about Christ. True preaching of the gospel seeks to honour Christ and proclaim the redemption we have in Christ.

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Isaiah 55:1 - Free Salvation

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  • Donald S. Fortner

Looking at Isaiah 55:1, this article shows that it is through the gospel that man's real need is answered, for it is in the gospel that the problem of sin is answered.

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Ruin, Redemption and Regeneration

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  • Tom Harding

This article shows that true preaching of the gospel should proclaim the total sinfulness of man, the complete salvation in Christ, and the full regeneration work of the Holy Spirit. To deny any of these three is to deny the gospel.

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Romans 1:16 - The Power to Save

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  • Miles McKee

Romans 1:16 shows that the gospel is not only essential for bringing unbelievers to Christ, but it is also essential for the believer. Salvation depends on Christ and His work, and it is in the gospel that this is proclaimed.

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The Gospel Includes Sanctification

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  • Rick Phillips

This article shows how the gospel can be preached in such a way that a balance is kept between justification and sanctification, keeping both grounded in the gospel.

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Reforming Servanthood: The Centrality of Gospel in Christian Service

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  • Nathaniel L. Palmer

Warning against the danger of serving God as a means to earn one's salvation, this article shows that true biblical servanthood is rooted in the desire to magnify the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the glory of God and to the benefit of others.

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What is the Gospel?

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  • George Syms

What is the essence of the gospel: what we must do, or what God has done for us?

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'O the Depth!'

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  • Maurice Roberts

This article is about the shallowness in the church and how we can once again recover the depth of the gospel and witness to the world.

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Thomas Boston on 'Why Men Do Not Believe the Gospel'

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  • James A Thomson

In this article the author looks at the Thomas Boston's view of why people do not believe in God (unbelief) and reject the gospel.

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The Gospel as Public Truth

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  • John Williams

Lesslie Newbigin has written a few works on the concept of the gospel as public truth. This concept emphasizes the factual basis of Christianity, and encourages Christians to be confident to engage in rational public discourse with Scripture as their basis. This article tries to envisage what Newbigin's proposal might mean.

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Holding Together: Catholic Evangelical Worship in the Spirit

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  • Christopher Cocksworth

Here is provided a vision of evangelical, cross-centred, gospel worship. This is held together with catholic instincts about the ecclesiastic character of worship and charismatic experience of the dynamic of the Spirit in worship.

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To Capture the Imagination of Our Culture: Reflections on Christian Apologetics

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  • Alister E. McGrath

In this article McGrath argues for the importance of apologetics in contemporary mission to a post-modern world. He also raises concerns about the weakness of much modern evangelical apologetics. Making use of the apostles’ speeches in Acts he highlights the importance of knowing our audience before showing the importance of theology in apologetics.

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The Art of Apologetics in the Twenty-First Century

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  • David Wilkinson

Wilkinson argues for a form of Christian apologetics which is not merely confrontation or defense on the intellectual level. He emphasizes a personal and holistic method and one which takes contemporary culture seriously.

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