The central consolation that Christians have should be found in the fact that God is God. Because we have been accepted in Christ, and our sins have been forgiven, and the righteousness of Jesus Christ ...
Thanksgiving 2022
The Substance of Things Hoped For
These are my notes for my talk at the Bahnsen 2022 conference. Many thanks to the organizers for inviting me. Introduction: Postmillennial eschatology is not just that branch of theology that ...
Benjamin and Gwen
The Christian community is made up of all kinds of people. God gathers His people from every tribe and nation, and He does so by means of the gospel. Each regenerated person is born again through the work of the Holy Spirit of God, and it is His marvelous work of re-creation that brings us …
Actual Good Grief
Authentic Ministry 16/Second Corinthians: Sermon Video Introduction: There are three kinds of grief in this passage. The first is Paul’s godly response to the pastoral meltdown at Corinth. ...
Envy Is As Envy Does
Introduction: One of the more obvious things about our kirker community here in Moscow is that it is growing, and that in remarkable ways. And as we grow, many people are gathering, assembling, arriving, connecting, and hopefully finding houses to live in. But one of the things that always happens in circumstances like this is …
Abandoning the Sons of Belial
Authentic Ministry 15/Second Corinthians: Sermon Video Introduction: Remember that the point of this epistle is for Paul to defend the authenticity of his ministry. There are three groups involved ...
Okay, So Halloween is Almost Here Again
Introduction: So I have written before on the subject of Halloween, both here and here. Some of what I say today will make better sense if you read those two pieces first. But that’s just a suggestion—you don’t have to. It’s a free country, or used to be at any rate. Every year around this …
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A Blizzard of Troubles
Authentic Ministry 14/Second Corinthians: Sermon Video Introduction: The early church father John Chrysostom once said that the apostle Paul had gone through a “blizzard of troubles.” This ...
The Stupefying Transaction
Authentic Ministry 13/Second Corinthians: Sermon Video Introduction: When the gospel is stated in its bare outlines, it is the kind of thing that takes the breath away. It leaves us stupefied. ...
No Craven, Crawling Thing
Authentic Ministry 12/Second Corinthians: Sermon Video Introduction: The fear of God is not a craven, crawling thing. In this passage, the fear of God is a driving motive force for evangelism, ...