Theology That Bites Back
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 …
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 ...
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 …
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 ...
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. ...
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, ...
Authentic Ministry 11/Second Corinthians: Sermon Video Introduction: As Christians, we must live our lives here in the light of the life to come. Those who live in the ways of YOLO are like ...
"However far I went I found only dingy lodging houses, small tobacconists, boardings from which posters hung in rags, windowless warehouses, goods stations without trains, and bookshops of the ...
Authentic Ministry 10/Second Corinthians: Sermon Video Introduction: We read in the book of Job that man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward (Job 5:7). This being the case, we need ...
In order to baptize anyone, we must have warrant from the Word of God to do so. We are not to do anything on the basis of what any mortal says—whether it is the person being baptized, or the parents of the child being baptized. No mortal can give us a warrant for baptizing anyone. …
