Introduction: I was recently sent a copy of Ruined Sinners to Reclaim , a hefty book dedicated to a thorough treatment of total depravity. It looks marvelous. If you have any friends who are ...
Justification and Concupiscence
Blasphemous and Absurd
Ascension Sunday 2024 Sermon Video Introduction: What we must learn how to stop doing is the bad habit of dividing the world up into separate compartments. Every aspect of our being—emotional, ...
Biblical Child Discipline in an Age of Therapeutic Goo #5
Discipline as Genuine Love: Sermon Video Introduction: In our message last Lord’s Day, we defined what we mean by the word discipline. Our subject this week is “discipline as genuine love,” ...
Child Discipline in an Age of Therapeutic Goo #4
The Nature of True Discipline: Sermon Video Introduction: The title of this series of messages refers to child discipline. We have come to the point where we need to define that word discipline. ...
Biblical Child Discipline in an Age of Therapeutic Goo (3)
Empathy and the Clowns: Sermon Video Introduction: Many Christian parents are aware of the fact that the outside world is hostile to our faith, and as a consequence it is hostile to the approach ...
An Ongoing Amen
As we come to baptize this child, we are called to remember that baptism is primarily God’s testimony, not our own testimony. In the waters of baptism, God is declaring that Jesus is the Christ, that He is the way of true salvation, and that those who bear the mark of His testimony are obligated …
Simeon and Macey
Our God is a God of abundance, and we need to be clear about this. This is not something that He has, but rather something that He is. He did not create the world, or us as a people to inhabit the world, because He was lonely. He was not in any way filling up …
Biblical Child Discipline in an Age of Therapeutic Goo (2)
Sermon Video Introduction: In order to work through a series of messages on parenting, it is necessary to pay some attention to the parents themselves. The parents are the ones doing the work, ...
Biblical Child Rearing in an Age of Therapeutic Goo (1)
Sermon Video Introduction: Over the years I have preached on marriage, and family, and child-rearing any number of times. Seeing as I am about to do it again, I need to begin by noting the way ...
Love Himself
In order for us to say that God is love, we must be able to deny, in the same breath, that God is solitary, or alone, or isolated. To be love itself, God must contain within Himself the subject and the object and the verb. He must be the Lover, and He must be the …