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This story is a collaboration between ProPublica Illinois and the Detroit Free Press, and co-published with Bridge Magazine. Update, July 17, 2020: A Michigan Family Division judge Friday granted a request to review the case of Grace, a 15-year-old sent to juvenile detention for violating probation by not doing her schoolwork, and reconsider her decision to detain the girl. Oakland County judge Mary Ellen Brennan scheduled a hearing for Monday morning to review the “progress and engagement” of Grace and her mother during the past two months, while the girl has been in detention and then a residential treatment program....

This is dedicated to my first Assembly of God youth pastor, Greg Black, who shared the true gospel with me almost 40 years ago. Facebook's Evid3nc3 (E3[1]) is a bright and ambitious young man raised in an Assembly of God church whose aggressive and unrelenting efforts to reach his peers would be the envy of most any youth pastor. Except for one thing: he proselytizes not for his youth group or the Lord, but his most cherished belief: his atheism. The videos in his series have been watched over a hundred-thousand times, possibly by kids in your youth group. Updated...

Just to clarify the position I expressed in my other posts, I do not think it is a good idea for a minister of the gospel to burn Qurans. Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center should go to where Muslims are and preach the free grace and forgiveness of God gained by Jesus Christ on the Cross and offered in the Free Gospel. But not all book burning is bad. I would much rather, however, see ex-Muslims burn their own Korans just as I'd rather have Latter Day Saints burn their own books of Mormon: Acts 19:18 And...

GO TELL EVANGELISM[ Home ] [ About GTE ] [ Newsletter ] [ Go Tell Seminars ] [ The Personal Evangelism Syllabus ] [ What We Believe ] [ The Institute Of Personal Evangelism ] [ Free Grace Theology ] [ Grace Bible Notes ] [ The Christian Library ] [ Need Good News ] [ The Christian Book Store ] [ E-mail Directory ] WHAT IS "FREE GRACE" THEOLOGY  by Arch Rutherford [A friend and fellow pastor wrote and asked me, "Arch, what do you mean by "Free Grace" theology? The following is the basic letter I sent to him. I have also used it to help others briefly understand the core values and convictions of those of us who are committed to "Free Grace" theology. Perhaps it can be of help to some in the GES family as well.] Dear John:Sorry I used a term that is not well...

The Doctrine of Justification: The Article on which the Church Stands and FallsBy J.A.O. Preus"What's the big deal?" I hear that a lot as a Council member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Why are we harping so much on the doctrine of justification? What's at stake and why are we so nitpicky about it? Well, good question. Of course, we are not the first to "harp" on this doctrine. We think of ourselves as following in the footsteps of Luther and Calvin and the other great reformers of the sixteenth century in focusing on what counts most. That's why...