Sermon Video Introduction: One of our generation’s hackneyed cliches is the one about “speaking truth to power.” The problem with it is that we almost always get everything backwards, and ...
Boldness When It Counts
A Performative Act
A Performative Act The words of institution for this Supper are a performative act. They are not magic words that change the bread and wine into anything else, but yet, at the same time, we really do partake of the Lord Jesus by faith. That it is not a miracle can be seen in the …
Clouds of Misunderstanding
The gospel advances through a cloud of misunderstanding. Whenever a remarkable event happens, including events of any spiritual significance, rumors start to fly, people start to talk, and the inaccuracies start to multiply. The gospel is a message of truth about the truth itself. But God did not give it a protective shield such that …
The Day of the Lord
Sermon Video Introduction: As we work through this next portion of Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians, we want to continue to hold the various elements of “the last things” loosely, and ...
Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve/To Think Soberly
Sermon Video Introduction: The sons of Adam and daughters of Eve have always had to deal with the presence of sin, at least since the third chapter of Genesis. We have to “budget” for it, ...
Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve/Young Men and their Strength
Sermon Video Introduction: As we seek to address the marital dislocations that confront us in every direction, remember that we want to do so in a way that respects the men, particularly the young ...
Nancy Rust, RIP
As we seek to remember Nancy Rust, and her life of kind service, one of the things we must do at the same time is remember the gospel of Christ, and how the kindness of God intervened in our world to ...
Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve/True Counterculture
Sermon Video Introduction: It is the central duty of every Christian preacher to preach Christ, and to do so in way that cannot be confused with anything else. Our normal procedure for doing this ...
Earthly Good and the Heavenly Mind
Sermon Video Introduction: In the next portion of this letter from Paul, we find a marvelous balance between our daily mundane concerns and our ultimate eschatological concerns. A taunt is sometimes ...
Confession of Sin as Sermon Prep
“Personal spiritual issues, also, must be dealt with in this regard. In fact, certain issues in the preacher’s life should be dealt with as part of sermon preparation. If not, the spiritual blocks can remain, denying the preacher the liberty to hear, see, respond to, and rejoice in the truth personally.”
Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 109