Theology That Bites Back
The Thirteenth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: When you consider the peril our nation is currently in, and you reflect on the fact that this psalm came up as the text for this Lord’s Day purely by happenstance, your conclusion needs to be that it is almost as though a higher power were at work. In …
“This activity of relating the message to the life of the preacher is especially significant if the preacher is preaching a lot of material he has gleaned from others . . . The bigger issue is that the ‘borrowed’ material needs to become a message that can be preached authentically through the preacher . . . You can use it, giving due credit; but make sure you have ‘heard’ it and responded to it, that the message is yours by virtue of personal submission and commitment.”
Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 178
Graveside Homily: At the very beginning of our race, the Lord God fashioned our first father Adam out of the dust of the ground. This means that man’s material beginning was lowly, but God breathed ...
Sermon Video Introduction: In these annual “state of the church” messages, we sometimes address our local circumstances here in Christ Church. At other times the message has addressed our ...
Introduction: One of the problems associated with being a cessationist is that people think that you must hold the idea, as the firmest of doctrines, that the Holy Spirit no longer does anything ...
Sermon Video Introduction: As many of you know, it is our custom to have a “state of the church” message around the beginning of each new year, and that message will be coming next week. But, ...
Christmas Eve 2020: If we understand the message of Christmas rightly, we understand it not only as the celebration of the birth of the Christ, but also as the starting point or birthplace of our faith. According ...
Introduction: One of the more obvious things about the Christmas story (as Scripture records it) would be prevalence of angels in it. The angel Gabriel appears to Zechariah to tell him about the birth ...
Sermon Video Introduction: We sometimes glide over the stupefying doctrines that are entailed by the Christmas miracle. We are accustomed to the story, and so we simply nod our heads at the familiar ...
The Holy Spirit is present with us here, now. As we come to this Table, He is the one who makes it all efficacious. Now He is always at work, regardless of our disheveled condition. He deals with us when we come prepared as we should have been prepared, and He deals with us when …
