Sermon Video Introduction: We sometimes glide over the stupefying doctrines that are entailed by the Christmas miracle. We are accustomed to the story, and so we simply nod our heads at the familiar ...
Advent and Abundance
Introduction: A genuine biblical faith is one that knows how to climb mountains, and how to not get lost in the valleys. In the flesh we know how to get used to what happens to us all the time. But ...
Advent and Affliction
Sermon Video Introduction: Over time, holidays take on a certain patina. Long usage and custom make this unavoidable and necessary, but it remains our responsibility not to allow such later accretions ...
Thanksgiving No Matter What
When we render our thanks to God, we are doing three things that need to be emphasized. When we consider that we are offering up our gratitude in a year when the dirty deeds have been abundant, the scoffers ...
Lord of Life, Dealer of Death, Giver of Gifts
Sermon Video Introduction: Today we celebrate Pentecost, the ancient harvest festival of the Jews, the great day on which the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the church, and three thousand souls ...
The Clouds of Heaven
Sermon Video Introduction: One of the great difficulties that modern Christians have is that we do not let the two testaments inform one another. Because of this neglect on our part, we miss ...
Sin and Dust/Easter 2020
Sermon Video Introduction: In the Garden of Eden, when God shaped the first man from the dust of the ground (Gen. 2:7), the Almighty was simply playing the part of a sculptor. He shaped Adam from ...
Good Friday Meditation/April 2020
https://www.facebook.com/193451174031504/videos/228349228516622/ According to Scripture, the reason we die is because of our sin. God told our first father Adam that the day he ate from the tree ...
No Letters Today, but Merry Christmas!
Next week will be New Year’s Eve, and for the last letters section of the year, I will select letters to answer from the accumulation of two weeks. The reason for this delay is that you have better things to do on Christmas Eve than to read a letters section for a blog, and it …
A Theology of Christmas Presents (4)
Introduction: In the light of all the foregoing, we should therefore not be surprised when we find that we must affirm the goodness of the material world. This should be obvious, but tragically ...