God’s Awesome Word
God’s Word is Awesome: Talk at the Brother’s of John the Steadfast Conference, 2013
Category: Theology
God’s Awesome Word
God’s Word is Awesome: Talk at the Brother’s of John the Steadfast Conference, 2013
Something’s Gone Wrong, The Four Things Your Conscience Knows
Everyone has a conscience, and this conscience tells us, “Things are not like they are supposed to be.” “Something’s wrong here!” That’s the voice o...
The Lord’s Prayer Teaches Us What an Abundant Life Is
Jesus says, “I have come that you may have life and have it abundantly,” (John 10:10). The Abundance of the Lord’s Prayer What makes life abundant? Our bi...
God Hates Visionary Dreaming
God hates visionary dreaming; it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. The man who fashions a visionary ideal of community demands that it be realized by God...
The Vocation of Friend
What’s a Vocation? The teaching of vocation is one of the most wonderful in the Scriptures. Our vocations are more than our job, they are our calling, our...
Stewardship Letter, 2011
Dear Saints, The Holy Spirit teaches us to love the Gospel, to treasure the Lord’s gift of forgiveness. This is why it is a joy for the Lord’s Christians to...
Forgiven First
Matthew 9:1-8 | ‘Forgiven’ | The 19th Sunday after Trinity Sunday | 9 October 2011 Your Biggest Problem What is the most troubling thing in your lif...
What to Look for in a Church
It happens that sometimes in this life we find ourselves looking for a church. What, exactly, are we looking for? What do we base our search upon? To begin, let...
The Comfort of the Law
Comforting consciences is normally the work of the Gospel. When the law shows our sin and accuses our conscience we rightly turn to the promise of the Gospel fo...
Worship is Being Served By Jesus
What is worship? This is one of those questions wanting a clear answer from the Lord’s Church. Unfortunately answers are muddled. “Worship is my praise an...
Love is a Mass Murderer, or “Happy Valentine’s Day”
When our Lord Jesus is raking the rich young ruler over the coals, He starts with a five-commandment combo: “You shall not murder, You shall not commit ad...
Three Manifestations of the Curb of the Law
It is common in Reformation Theology to speak of the first use of the law as a curb; the law keeps a general order in society. “The first use of...
Baptism and the Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts
Water Baptism vs Baptized with the Spirit and Power The book of Acts begins with Jesus’ parting words to His apostles before His ascension to the right ha...
How to Write a Church Growth Book in Five Easy Steps
Many people are putting off from writing their own Church Growth book because, they say, “I don’t know anything about the church or the Bible.”...
Dealing with Praise-Mystics, Demonstrated
In a previous post (The Praise Song Cruncher) I suggested a strategy for dealing with praise-mystics, namely by taking all the talk of “seeing God” ...
Dealing with Praise-Mystics, Demonstrated
In a previous post (The Praise Song Cruncher) I suggested a strategy for dealing with praise-mystics, namely by taking all the talk of “seeing God” ...
The Praise Song Cruncher
Contemporary worship is mysticism. There are exceptions, but that is the rule. Mysticism is the religious system that seeks an unmediated unity between the divi...
“Rapture: The Resurrection of the Living” or “In Case of Rapture, Can I Have Your Car?”
Download this essay in .pdf. This essay is an adaption of a sectional given at The Feast, the 2006 Higher Things youth conference, and has been hanging around t...