Philippians (12): Sermon Video Introduction: One of the great things I learned from my father is that “God takes you from where you are, and not from where you should have been.” All of ...
Forgetting What Lies Behind
Not Having My Own Righteousness
Philippians (11): Sermon Video Introduction: We come now to a particular gospel “turn” that is extremely troublesome to the carnal mind. The square peg of an “alien righteousness” does ...
The Fourth Turning and the Future of Reformed Leadership
Introduction: In 1997, William Strauss and Neil Howe published The Fourth Turning, a study of the long cycles of American history. Since that time, William Strauss has passed away, but Neil Howe is ...
You May Not be Interested in Interest, But Interest Is Interested in You
Introduction: We like to think of ourselves as biblical absolutists. Whatever the Bible teaches, we want to accept, straight up the middle, and with no backchat. We don't want to have any a priori ...
No Confidence in the Flesh
Sermon Video Philippians (10): Introduction: Everyone here has an inner life and an external life. If there had been no fall, no rebellion, there would have been a true unity between the two. ...
Like a Pair of Old Jeans
Introduction: Many times those who are listening to the debates over hyper-preterism concentrate too much on the debaters and what they are saying, when they really ought to take a look at the universe ...
Timothy and Epaphroditus
Philippians (9): Sermon Video Introduction: The Christian faith is by no means a solitary business. The grace of regeneration extends to each individual, but because this grace is brought ...
Paul and Tamar
We have all had the experience of buying an appliance that we thought we understood, but then when we couldn’t get to work, we found that we had to finally, somewhat sheepishly, resort to the manual. ...
Why “All of Christ for All of Life”?
Sermon Video Introduction: As God has called different ministries to various aspects of His kingdom work in this world, they have often been characterized by different tag lines or summary statements. ...
No Murmuring at All
Philippians (8): Sermon Video Introduction: We have been focusing on like-mindedness and joy. But the particular like-mindedness and joy that Paul is urging upon the Philippians is not simply ...