Theology That Bites Back
Introduction: Many Christians are dogged by two words, and those words are success and failure. We are lured on by the first, and chased down alleys by the second. We are harried by their plain definitions, ...
Sermon Video Introduction: As many of you know, it is our custom to have a “state of the church” message around the beginning of each new year, and that message will be coming next week. But, ...
We all enjoy talking about the sovereignty of God, and sometimes we even enjoy it too much when we are talking with those brothers who happen to disagree with us on it. But how much do we believe it? How strongly do we believe it? “Then I proclaimed a fast there at the river of …
Here is the general outline of a talk I gave on August 24, 2010 at Collegiate Reformed Fellowship. Reposting it again three years later for obvious reasons. My point this evening is not that smoking cigarettes is a sin everywhere and for everyone, under any conceivable circumstance. My thesis is a great deal simpler than …
“But you can have a heart full of forgiveness, full to the brim, ready to overflow the moment repentance appears. Until that happens, there is no forgiveness. We need to distinguish forgiveness in principle and forgiveness accomplished” (For a Glory and a Covering, p. 95).
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #120 “For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God” …
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #119 “If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake. But if any man say unto you, This …
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #118 “Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth. Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake: For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof” (1 Cor. 10:24-26). …
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #117 “All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not” (1 Cor. 10:23). There are verses where the surrounding context does not matter as much …
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #116 “Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than …
