Preaching to People?
Relatively early in my preaching career I had the opportunity to preach the opening sermon at a conference. The main conference speaker was a man that I consider to be one of the finest preachers of our times. After hearing…
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Against the Tide
Miroslav Volf is a distinguished scholar. He is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School and he is the director of the Yale Centre for Faith and Culture. His theological trajectory includes being the son…
June 10: Rev 12
Revelation 12 contains mysterious symbols with seemingly unfathomable meanings. One is reminded of Ambrose Bierce’s famous definition of Revelation as “a famous book in which St John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the…
Don’t divorce Christianity from the Body of Christ
Trevin Wax has posted a very helpful review of the late Michael Spencer’s recently released “Mere Churchianity.” While Trevin finds some very helpful moments in the book he takes issue with what seems to be the recurring problem: “pitting a…
Sunday’s Sermon
Sunday’s message was part 38 in our series through Hebrews. It is entitled “Faith At The End of Life” and is taken from Hebrews 11:20-22. You can listen to or download it HERE.
Flavel and the art of the simple
I have been re-reading – and using as the basis of our midweek Prayer Meeting studies at the moment – John Flavel’s great work on ‘Keeping the Heart’. His meditations on Proverbs 4:23 were originally published under the title of…
How Do I Know If I’m Mortifying Sin by the Law or by the Gospel?
In Ralph Erskine’s sermon “The Strength of Sin” (see Works, 5:145ff–thanks to Tony Reinke for the reference) he has a section on the difference between gospel mortification and legal mortification. You can read the whole thing here. Below is an…
June 9: Psalm 100
The apostle Paul is well known for writing letters with an indicative/imperative structure–his New Testament epistles. The indicative comes first, as Paul tells us what God has done for us in Christ. The imperative comes next. In this section of…
June 8: Isaiah 40
I saw them over the forest: two golden eagles, cavorting in the wind. When I first spied them they were still low enough to identify, and they flapped from time to time in order to stay aloft. But the eagles…
June 7: Isaiah 39
So far, so good. At a time of personal desperation, when his life was hanging in the balance, Hezekiah threw himself on the mercy of God and prayed that he would not die, but live. God heard the king’s prayer…