Introduction: How do we as individuals respond to the situation we find ourselves in? How can we be faithful in our generation? These very practical questions, and they require answers that are equally practical. What are we to do? How are we to live? The Texts: “And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all …
Community Property
We might describe the marriage between the Lord Jesus Christ and His bride, the Christian church, as a community property marriage. This way of saying it might jar us at first, but it points to an important aspect of our faith that is often neglected. What we have in this meal is a representation of …
A Duddy-Dead One
Biblical wisdom literature often encourages us to prefer one of two offered paths, when there are actually four possibilities. For example, we are told that it is better to have a little money and fear of the Lord than to have lots of wealth and big trouble with it (Prov. 15:16). We are also told …
Baptism for the Dead
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #185 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead? (1 Cor. 15:29). This now brings us to a cryptic argument that …
One Kind of Baptism Means Two Kinds of Christian
In my stack of books being read, there are a handful of writers that are always in there somewhere. I make a constant point of always having a book by Chesterton, Bunyan, Lewis, Thomas Watson . . . and, to come to our point this morning, Jonathan Edwards. I am currently in Volume 12 of …
Praying Jalapeños
Okay, I love Logos Bible Software, and so that means this is in no way a complaint. They do great things. It is just that a graphic that appeared on their home page today reminded me of Pet Peeve #48. I can’t show you the graphic because they must have crammed too many pixels into …
Surveying the Text: 1 Corinthians
Introduction: The theme of this book is the battle between division and unity. But we must follow the wisdom of God. Not only are false division and true unity at odds, so also are true division and false unity at odds. Unity with idols is division. Division from evil is righteousness and real unity. The …
Though the Devil Should Say Contrary
This is the time in our weekly worship when we come to the Supper. But the connotations might be different for us if we simply said that this is Suppertime. This is the point where the Holy Spirit of God, who is the Comforter, offers us His food, but the connotations are different when we …
Wineskin Memorial
As we are preparing for a sanctuary of our own, we have to remember that we are not the only ones doing the preparing. Not only are we preparing in all the ways we know about, so also God is preparing us—in many ways we don’t usually know about. When denominations form, and when church …
Kellen and Noai
We have gathered here in order to witness a solemn exchange of vows. This is because a wedding ceremony is a ceremony that is structured around a mutually binding oath. This is fully scriptural—the Bible describes marriage as a covenant, and covenants are formed and ratified by vows. In Prov. 2:17, the faithless wife who …