The text this morning is taken from the Gospel of John, the first three verses. These are the words of God. “IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was ...
One Little Word Shall Fell Him
State of the Church 2022
Sermon Video Introduction: We live in troubled times, certainly, and a regular response that rank-and-file Christians have to this challenge is found in the lament, “But what can we do?” This ...
The Potency of Right Worship
Sermon Video Introduction: Many of the problems confronting modern Christians is that they diligently try to do the right thing . . . in the wrong categories. They try guitar fingering on a mandolin; ...
Calvinism and Girls
Dear Dawson, So this letter is going to be a discussion that combines your two favorite subjects—Calvinism and girls. Let me start by saying something you might think is problematic, and ...
Counseling and Preaching
“We would have less need for personal counseling if we provided more application in the pulpit.”
Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 92
A Terrible Weapon
“A minister’s life is the life of his ministry . . . In great measure, according to the purity and perfections of the instrument, will be the success. It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.”
Robert Murray M’Cheyne, as quoted in Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 82
The Knowledge of Good and Evil
Sermon Video Introduction: The Lord Jesus was born in this world in order to reestablish mankind. The first mankind in Adam had failed at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and so Jesus ...
Black Bethlehem
As we continue to tell the story of how the Christ child was born, we need to take into account the story that his birth place had already been telling for centuries. That small town provided the perfect ...
A Lot More
“Therefore, the glory of God and the needs of our listeners compel us to preach with sincerity and holy energy. This more than raising our voices and waving our arms.”
Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 79
Than In All the Dwellings of Jacob
“David Clarkson (1622-1686) says that God is present in public worship ‘more effectually, constantly, intimately’ than in private devotions.”
Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 75