Theology That Bites Back
Over many years of counseling and teaching, I have discovered that one of the most difficult lessons for men to learn is the distinction between guilt and responsibility. I believe that this is a difficult ...
The following is a transcript of my remarks to the Society of the Perpetually Aggrieved. The occasion for the address was a response to a court order, and it was in anticipation of the next sexual scandal that is going to be thrown against our community, whenever that might happen to be. A car was …
We live in an individualistic age, and because of this we have come to believe that it is not possible to have any of our loyalties assigned to us. We believe (somehow) that in order to obligated to anything, we need to have chosen it ourselves. This is true on some occasions, as when a …
At the end of the Sermon on the Mount, the Lord Jesus gives us an illustration of two houses—one built securely on a rock, and the other built on sand. From a distance, there was no real way to tell the essential difference between the two houses. In fact, we could easily imagine the house …
Sermon Video Introduction: “Growing up Christian” is a process that revolves around a relationship between people. In most cases, you have the parents on the one hand, and you have the child ...
Philippians (16): Sermon Video Introduction: We come now to the conclusion of Paul’s letter to the Philippians. The theme of this passage is the importance of contentment, in the context ...
Philippians (15): Sermon Video Introduction: Paul is following his typical pattern here. He loves to conclude his epistles with a set of rapid-fire exhortations, which is what he is doing here ...
Philippians (14): Sermon Video Introduction: Everybody thinks that likemindedness is a wonderful thing, and everyone approves of it in the abstract. Behold how pleasant it is when brethren ...
A common mistake with regard to the Lord’s Table is that of thinking that something is happening here that never happens anywhere else in the world. But it would be more accurate to say that the thing that distinguishes this Table is with whom it happens . . . not what happens. This is what …
One of the things we must always remember to do is to distinguish what baptism means objectively—apart from any sincerity or insincerity on the part of those administering, receiving, or observing it. And what baptism means is union with Christ. Those who are baptized into Christ are baptized into His death (Rom. 6:3). If you …
