Introduction: So, at last week’s Grace Agenda, we concluded the event with a giant Block Party. The evening was fabulous, just like last year, and one of the crowning blessings for us this time around was that our goings-on were surveilled by the FBI. It is a dangerous world out there, and when people start …
A Cardboard Box Full of Diamonds
Authentic Ministry 9/Second Corinthians: Sermon Video Introduction: The persistent and obvious weakness of God’s servants is not a bug, but rather a feature. God does it this way because ...
A Spiritual Triangle
“Preaching is a spiritual triangle whereby God draws the preacher and the hearers closer to himself and to each other”
Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 347
Light and Blindness
Sorry for the late posting. Things have been hectic. Leave me alone. Authentic Ministry 8 Second Corinthians: Sermon Video Introduction: A faithful proclamation of the gospel of Christ ...
Lethal Glory
Authentic Ministry 7/Second Corinthians: Sermon Video Introduction: We have now come to what might be called the crescendo of the great new covenant symphony. The overture was glorious, but ...
Cole and Isabell
In the Great Commission that the Lord Jesus gave to His disciples, He charged them, among other things, to teach the nations everything that He had commanded. We Christians have been pursuing this charge for two thousand years now, and we are a long way from completion. But we have been at it long enough …
Christ, Not Water
Regardless of when the sacrament of baptism is performed, the only effective catalyst that can make it efficacious for blessing is faith—living, breathing, active, evangelical faith. Otherwise we are just applying a dead sign to dead sinners. Otherwise we are just sprinkling water on the headstones in a cemetery. Otherwise we are just engaging in …
Jonathan and Jaela
Weddings happen all the time, and because they happen all the time, it is easy to miss how remarkable it all is. God is so good to us, and pours out so many blessings upon us, that our tendency is to take it all for granted, and to assume that His good gifts and graces …
The Spirit Raises the Letter to Life
Authentic Ministry 6/Second Corinthians: Sermon Video Introduction: We are now coming to a passage that teaches us where the spiritual action really is. Do you want to be right with ...
Authentic Ministry 5/Second Corinthians
Sermon Video Introduction: One of the basic lessons of Scripture is the lesson of gospel inversion. Humility exalts. Servanthood rules. Death lives. The underdog triumphs. The back of the ...