Introduction: This is the shortest of the four gospels, but Mark uses a number of devices to make it fly by even faster. This is a gospel of now. This is a gospel that is quite effective in presenting us with a sense of vivid immediacy. Mark uses the historical present tense consistently, he uses …
Preaching Wheels Up
“This exaltation of soul, rising at times to rapture, can never be fitly described; but the speaker who does not in some measure know what it means, was not born to be a speaker” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 428).
Denial Prep
“Fanatical or slothful men who say that they never make any preparation, deceive themselves” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 426).
Straight to the Meaning
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #168 “I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words …
Surveying the Text: Matthew
Introduction: We are now continuing with our plan to work through the Bible, a book at a time. We have considered the first five books of the Scriptures, the Pentateuch, and have now come to the first four books of the New Testament, the Gospels. Let us begin, as seems normal, with Matthew. The Text: …
Essential Translation
“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 …