“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #167 “Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret. For if …
Three Chains IV: Deliverance
Introduction: We have been considering the ways in which men are held in bondage by fear, guilt, and shame. Fear threatens their safety. Guilt challenges their righteousness. Shame assaults their glory. Given the reality of sin, our response to this has to be true safety, genuine righteousness, and real glory—all given to us by another. …
Three Chains III: Shame
Introduction: We have been considering fear, guilt, and shame, and we have come to treat the topic of shame separately. The Text: “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run …
Three Chains II: Guilt
Introduction: The solution to fear is deliverance. The answer to guilt is justification. The solution to shame is the honor of glorification. To release someone from one of these chains requires that he be released from all. And Jesus Christ is the only one who can do any of it. Last week we considered the …
Babel and Pentecost
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #166 “There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification. Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a …
In Deadly Earnest, not Acting Like It
“To do so is not natural, it is to be an actor; and acting, however skilful and however much admired, is in the pulpit a crime, — and, as the diplomatists say, not only a crime, but worse, a blunder” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 418).
Three Chains I : Fear
Introduction: Over the course of the next few weeks, we are going to be considering three chains that the enemy of our souls wants to use in order to keep us in bondage. But in Christ, we have been set free, and set free means set free from each of these chains, and from all …
An Eye That Actually Sees
“The most potent element in the delivery of a real orator is often the expressiveness of the eye” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 415).
Tangled Blatts
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #165 “And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who …
Idols and Tyranny
Introduction: One of the reasons we have trouble dealing realistically with evil in this world is that we have drawn mental cartoons of the evil beforehand. When someone says “tyranny,” we think of goose-stepping armies, missile parades, and funny looking helmets. But then, when something genuinely bad happens in our own lives, and we see …