We are privileged to celebrate this Supper on Pentecost Sunday, the day when God in His mercy made it abundantly clear that He had given His Son, the bread from Heaven, as the life of the world. In the gospel of Mark, Jesus miraculously feeds the multitudes on two occasions. In the first instance, in …
With All You’ve Got
The greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all you’ve got. This of course can only be obeyed in the context of the grace of God found in the gospel. The way we commend ourselves to God is in Jesus’ name, because He is the only one who perfectly loved God with …
Steven and Katie
In the name of the God of all grace, welcome. Steven, may grace and peace be multiplied to you. Katie, may grace and peace be multiplied to you. This is a Christian wedding and, as such, it is therefore a testimony to the grace of God. But what is grace, exactly? For too many people, …
Say Somebody Is a Skuzzbucket
Over at The Daily Beast, Lee Siegel writes this: “Creepy as Anthony Wiener’s photos are, the level of outrage aimed at him is wildly unfair. We’d have no heroes left if we held everyone to this ridiculous standard.” Just when you think that discourse in our nation has gotten to the bottom of the barrel, …
A Test, Nothing Serious
Baptism Points Away
“The meaning of Abraham’s circumcision was not, ‘Abraham got saved.’ Rather, it was, ‘Salvation will come to the world!’ It is true that Abraham was personally saved, and that he was saved by faith. But he was saved because he believed in the objective promise — that is, in the coming Christ . . . …
And Without Holding Anything in Reserve
“A preacher may have little or much personality, but certainly, when he gets into the pulpit he needs to use all that he has” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 149).
Okay to Click
For those in the Boise area at the time, we will be having a family conference there in early July. In addition to the conference, we will be holding a reprise of the benefit concert we held here in Moscow (since our drummer lives down there). You can find out more by clicking on the …
Preaching Face to Face
“One great advantage of preaching without notes is the power of a direct appeal . . .Preaching without notes gives an earnestness to the preacher which is hardly possible otherwise, and it is earnestness that counts. That is the true eloquence” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, pp. 147-148).
The Impossibility of Silence
“The marriage covenant is always a picture of Christ and the church, and has been so from the beginning. It will either be a lying picture or a true one, but a man and a woman are always speaking of Christ” (To a Thousand Generations, p. 39).