Sermon Video Introduction: Many of the problems confronting modern Christians is that they diligently try to do the right thing . . . in the wrong categories. They try guitar fingering on a mandolin; ...
The Potency of Right Worship
Counseling and Preaching
“We would have less need for personal counseling if we provided more application in the pulpit.”
Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 92
A Terrible Weapon
“A minister’s life is the life of his ministry . . . In great measure, according to the purity and perfections of the instrument, will be the success. It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.”
Robert Murray M’Cheyne, as quoted in Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 82
The Knowledge of Good and Evil
Sermon Video Introduction: The Lord Jesus was born in this world in order to reestablish mankind. The first mankind in Adam had failed at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and so Jesus ...
Black Bethlehem
As we continue to tell the story of how the Christ child was born, we need to take into account the story that his birth place had already been telling for centuries. That small town provided the perfect ...
A Lot More
“Therefore, the glory of God and the needs of our listeners compel us to preach with sincerity and holy energy. This more than raising our voices and waving our arms.”
Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 79
Than In All the Dwellings of Jacob
“David Clarkson (1622-1686) says that God is present in public worship ‘more effectually, constantly, intimately’ than in private devotions.”
Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 75
Night and Day
“If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than be built in the day of his doctrine.”
John Owen, in Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 69
Chalcedon Christmas 4
Sermon Video Introduction: In the fourth century, the Council of Nicea settled the question of the Lord’s deity, and consequently became the touchstone that enables us to address various Trinitarian ...
The Reformed Word
“Reformed preaching is declaring biblical truth to promote biblical spirituality as it was rediscovered in the Reformation of the sixteenth century.”
Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 58