Recent years have seen been an increase in quality books addressing the Christ-centered nature of Scripture. Following in this tradition, Dr. Michael Williams wrote How to Read the Bible through the Jesus Lens. Written in the tradition of the best-selling How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth series, this book aims to help […]
Robert Candlish from Studies in Genesis (commenting on Gen. 6:1-22): When the Lord first fixed the period of his long-suffering patience, and resolved to spare man on the earth for one hundred and twenty years, and no longer—he doubtless intimated this purpose in some way; announcing the destruction coming on all flesh, and giving some public
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Introduction The Gospel of Jesus Christ is truly amazing. By the Gospel Christians stand and grow in the grace of God. Paul in 1st Corinthians 15:1-11 establishes the historical reliability of Jesus’ resurrection in order to lay a firm foundation for his argument that it was only the first step in the resurrection of
Introduction The Synoptic Gospels have little to say when considering the person and work of the Holy Spirit. In the Fourth Gospel, the Evangelist spends three chapters (John 14-16) teaching on the Holy Spirit’s role in the life of the believer. The Gospel of John may be criticized on its structure and genre, but
This sermon “Servanthood As Worship: A Torn Curtain” is based on Nate’s book Servanthood as Worship: The Privilege of Life in a Local Church. In this sermon, Nate preaches on how Christians are free to serve not as duty but as worship unto Christ through the grace and power found in the Gospel.
This afternoon I had the honor of being one of the many men to participate in a manhood ceremony for Joshua, a young man in our church who has recently turned 13. Similar to the Jewish tradition of Bar-Mitzvah, our church holds a special ceremony for each young man as they reach the age of
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, from Studies in The Sermon on the Mount (Kindle Edition): How does one therefore become `poor in spirit’? The answer is that you do not look at yourself or begin by trying to do things to yourself. That was the whole error of monasticism. Those poor men in their desire to do this said, `I
Books on preaching tend to focus on how to exegete the passage or construct a sermon but not many focus on how to reevaluate and consider one’s current practice of preaching through the matrix of application. Preaching that Changes Lives, by Dr. Mike Fabarez, helps the preacher or teacher to give attention to three areas of ministry: