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Spiritual Gifts Fred Zaspel | September 1, 2011

Perspectives on Pentecost: The New Testament Teaching on Gifts of the Holy Spirit

It was about twenty-five years ago when I first read Richard Gaffin’s book , Perspectives on Pentecost: New Testament Teaching on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Reading it again today, I was struck once again with the quality of work Gaffin has given us. His grasp of redemptive-history, of course, is well known, and […]

Misc Topics Fred Zaspel | September 1, 2011

Musings on Church Squabbles

I have been in church all my life. I grew up in a pastor’s home, and from childhood until now have seen “the inside” of countless church problems — in the churches to which I have belonged, in churches which I have pastored, and in other churches in which I have for various reasons and […]

The Christian Life Fred Zaspel | September 1, 2011

More Valuable than Sheep

In Matthew 12:12 Jesus exclaims, “How much more valuable is a man than a sheep.” Now, on one level that is not profound at all. We all instinctively recognize that a human being is more valuable than an animal. Looking at this passage B.B. Warfield poses the simple question, “Why?” What is it that makes […]

Book Reviews Fred Zaspel | April 2, 2011

The Doctrine of the Word of God

Review of The Doctrine of the Word of God by John Frame Can anything new be said about the doctrine of Revelation and Scripture? We’ve had Augustine, Calvin, Westminster, and now a century of continued discussion since the watershed moment of Warfield, and we wonder with each new book on the subject what it could […]

Book Reviews Fred Zaspel | January 1, 2011

Review of De Young and Gilbert Mission of Church

Download PDF Summary Note: This summary of the above article was produced using AI-assisted tools to aid reader orientation and may contain errors. Fred G. Zaspel reviews DeYoung’s and Gilbert’s “What Is the Mission of the Church,” praising its call for Christians to return to “that which ought to be the central mark of the […]

Book Reviews Fred Zaspel | January 1, 2011

Review of Williamson Sealed with an Oath

Download PDF Summary Note: This summary of the above article was produced using AI-assisted tools to aid reader orientation and may contain errors. Paul Williamson’s “Sealed With an Oath” “traces out Scripture’s covenant motif as it advances ‘God’s creative purpose of universal blessing.’” Defining a covenant as “a solemn commitment…sealed with an oath,” the oath […]

Biblical Law & New Covenant Theology Fred Zaspel | January 1, 2011

Review of Perspectives on the Sabbath Four Views

Download PDF Summary Note: This summary of the above article was produced using AI-assisted tools to aid reader orientation and may contain errors. Fred G. Zaspel states, “Perspectives on the Sabbath must be judged a success. Each of the contributors helpfully presents his case.” The book features four views: Seventh Day Adventist (MacCarty), “Christian Sabbath” […]

Book Reviews Fred Zaspel | January 1, 2011

Review of John Frame The Doctrine of the Word of God

Download PDF Summary Note: This summary of the above article was produced using AI-assisted tools to aid reader orientation and may contain errors. Fred G. Zaspel reviews John M. Frame’s “A Theology of Lordship, vol. 4: The Doctrine of the Word of God,” which offers “a fresh approach and some new thinking.” Frame’s “personal-word model’ […]

B.B. Warfield & Old Princeton Fred Zaspel | January 1, 2009

Remembering B B Warfield

Article Summary: At important moments in the history of the church, God has raised up men “to give voice to His Word,” and in this sense Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield of Old Princeton was “the theologian of the doctrine of inspiration,” whose articulation of that doctrine remains definitive. Yet this emphasis can mislead, since “judged in […]