Will the Real Justification by Faith, Please Stand Up

The issue of justification by faith is crucial for the doctrine of salvation. Part of the focus of this book is that the doctrine of justification by faith, as taught by the UPCI, and as represented by its most prolific writer, David Bernard, is not the biblical doctrine of justification. This book gives seventeen reasons why it is not. It also shows from Scripture the true nature of the real justification by faith. This is a must have book for anyone from the UPCI doctrinal background.

Faith is the Essential Response to Acts 2:38

This is a very in-depth look at why the traditional and biblical view of justification by faith alone is not compatible with the UPCI teaching about Acts 2:38. More positively, I seek to present that faith alone is the true way to understand and keep Acts 2:38. After seven years of wrestling with the Acts 2:38 in the light of the Gospel I am convinced that justification is by faith alone. The UPCI has redefined faith as obedience and thus wrongly interpreted the meaning of Acts 2:38. I am also convinced that Acts 2:38, properly understood, is a beautiful statement of justification by faith alone, and that faith, and not "obedience," is its essential response.

Grace Plus Nothing

A MUST HAVE BOOK. A number of you have requested Jeff Harkin's book, "Grace Plus Nothing." This book is revised version of Grace Plus Nothing published by Tyndale House. Tyndale's Grace Plus Nothing was a revision of the original book "Celebration of Grace." If you are looking for either book, this new edition is what you are looking for. I have found this book a primer on how to apply the truths of Grace.

Salvation Collection

Salvation Collection is made up of some very specific issues of salvation that I faced when I discovered salvation by faith alone. Chapters include: "How Many Stages?," "Problem of 'Faith Alone,'" "Does Christ or Baptism Save Us?," "Purified by Faith," "How Did Paul 'Wash Away' His Sins?." "Remission of Sins & Acts 2:38," and "Can Grace be Forfeited Over a Technicality?".

What Does It Mean to be 'Born Again'?

Volume One: "Born of the Water"

If you are interested the history of the New Birth doctrine in Church history in general, you will find this very helpful. What did the Pietists, Anabaptist, Holiness Movement, Keswick or early Pentecostals believe about the New Birth? What about the mainline denominations: Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Baptists and Methodists teach? How about Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley, George Whitefield, Charles Finney, Edward Irving, Asa Mahan, Phoebe Palmer, A. B. Simpson, A. J. Gordon, E. W. Kenyon, Charles Parham, or William Durham claim for the meaning of the New Birth?

How We Read the Bible

Why is it that Christians around the world have basically the same Bibles, but come up with so many different understandings of what it says? Obviously, it is because they “read” the Bible differently. Why do Christians read the Bible differently? The issue is not the inspiration of Scripture. That is a given. Nor is the issue the importance of the Bible as our sole authority. That is a given also. We should not question what the Bible says. We should question how we read it. The issue is: “How do we read the Bible?” What is the interpretive grid that we bring to Scripture, that shapes our conclusions about what it says? This is the question this book addresses.

When Is the Blood Applied?

While many believe that Jesus shed His blood to take away their sins, they don’t agree about how we may obtain, appropriate or apply that blood personally. Different groups within Christianity have their distinctive expectations of how the recipients of salvation should appropriate it. A group’s requirements for appropriating Christ’s blood becomes their most distinguishing theological mark.