Our church web site now has a new look, and I encourage you all to head over there and walk around for a bit. More is new than just the “look.” There is a good deal more than just aesthetics involved — more content and more functionality. In addition, one of the features I have …
The Resurrection of the Entire Cosmos
Introduction We know from Scripture that Jesus was raised from the dead on the third day after His crucifixion. Jesus died and Jesus was raised. But what power did the raising? How was this done? We know that Jesus was raised, but who raised Him? The Text: “I am the good shepherd, and know my …
Best Thing Ever
We know that we are supposed to give way to others, we do know that we are supposed to honor one another. As with so many things, there is a wrong way to do this as well as a biblical way. Sexual immorality is to be avoided because it is important not to give your …
Still Here
Word and sacrament are offered to us together. In what we are offered, we do have a glorious repetition, but we do not have redundancy. Never think that you are offered something in the sacrament that the Word has already completely supplied. The Word prepares us for the sacrament; it does not displace it. The …
The Last Human Sacrifice
We are told in Scripture, in numerous places, that the death of Jesus was a death for sin. It is therefore not possible to meditate responsibly on the crucifixion of Jesus without reckoning with the fact and reality of sin. If Jesus was a dragon-slayer in His passion, and He was, then we must understand …
Now They Tell Us
“It is possible to find more meaning in a text, than it really contains” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, p. 152).
Dwelling Where Satan Dwelt
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) “And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges; I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast …
Palm Sunday and Superlatives
Introduction There is absolutely no reason to believe that the crowd at the Triumphal Entry was the same crowd that was crying out for Jesus to be crucified just a few days later. This crowd was overjoyed to see Jesus, and was giving voice to their overflowing joy. And the kind of joy they experienced …
Friends Don’t Let Friends . . .
The Christian life is a life of true expectancy. The corporate Christian life—life together in the church—is a life of corporate expectancy. It does not yet appear what we will be, but we know that it will be glorious and good. Even prior to the last day, the day of resurrection, we expect to see …
Truly Finished
When Christians come to this Table, in faith they are partaking of the very same thing that the Jews partook of in the Passover meal. We are taught explicitly that Christ was the Passover Lamb, slain for us. He was executed on the cross at the same time as Passover. The blood of the lambs …