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Category Archives: A Call to the Unconverted
The Tyranny of Anarchy and the Freedom of Slavery
I spotted this message spray painted on a sidewalk at the Rafina port in Athens, Greece. And yet, as I began to mull over this message, the thought occurred to me: throwing off the yoke of authority, such as the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchy, bible, Christianity, free, freedom, humanity, judges, slave, slavery
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The Book of Revelation: The Purifying Power of the Future Made Present
As I concluded my year long goal to read the Greek NT from Matthew to Revelation in 2010, I recall being deeply impacted and moved as I slowly worked my way through the Greek text and message of Revelation, which … Continue reading
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Tagged babylon, faith, hell, Jesus, john, power, repentance, revelation, sin, whore
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Savage Wolves Devouring Sheep
Acts 20:28-30 Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. I know that after my … Continue reading
The God Who Sees
Psalm 10:13-14 Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”? But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands.
Atheism: Vacillating When It Makes Sense
Perhaps you have noticed that the typical atheism of our day wages a dialectical war within itself, vacillating between rationality on the one hand and irrationality on the other, specifically, between modernity and postmodernity. For example, when arguing against God’s … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, dawkins, hitchens, modernity, New Atheism, postmodernity
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Gleanings from the Gospel of Matthew – Part 10
Often times in the Greek New Testament, you’ll find instances where two people/groups/responses/ideas/etc. are contrasted, and this contrast is brought out rather starkly in the Greek. We see this, for example, in Matthew 25 concerning the Judgment Day. Matthew 25:31-46 … Continue reading
The Devastation of Haiti: A Message to the Rest of Us
Job 38:2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? In light of the earthquake that has ravaged and devastated Haiti, televangelist Pat Robertson opened his mouth, thus showing his foolishness by saying that this earthquake was “God’s punishment for Haitian slaves’ … Continue reading
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Tagged 700 club, haiti, heaven, hell, Jesus, pat robertson, perish, repent
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The Songs of Advent (Part 2): The Song of Heaven (Luke 2:13-14)
This is the second in a three part Advent sermon series, “The Songs of Advent,” that I am preaching at a local church in town. If you were not here last week, we began a three-week advent series from the … Continue reading
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Tagged advent, angels, gloria, gospel of luke, series, sermon
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The Songs of Advent (Part 1): The Song of Humility (Luke 1:46-55)
This is the first in a three part Advent sermon series, “The Songs of Advent,” that I am preaching at a local church in town. As we find ourselves in the midst of this Advent season, it is the words … Continue reading
Hunting Tiger Woods
An excellent blog post here by C.J. Mahaney about Tiger Woods. An excerpt: Hunted by the Media As expected, the allegations of adultery involving a public figure are attracting a media pile-on. This is a big story with a big audience … Continue reading
Warning to Professing Christians
Watch this video. It could be of eternal value for your life over the next 4 minutes.
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Tagged al martin, christian, heaven, hell, professing, reformed
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The Reformed Pastor – Quoteables (Part 1)
I’ve been working through Richard Baxter’s The Reformed Pastor, and it is excellent. This book is absolutely a must read for any one in pastoral or anyone pursuing pastoral ministry. Many of today’s contemporary and popular books on pastoral ministry … Continue reading
Christ Our Righteousness (Matthew 4:1-11)
A sermon that I preached a few weeks back on Matthew 4:1-11. Please turn with me to the Gospel of Matthew 4:1-11. Primarily with a Jewish audience in mind, Matthew writes His Gospel to testify concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who … Continue reading
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Tagged adam, Christ, eve, geerhardus vos, israel, Jesus, matthew 4, obedience, righteousness, satan, sin, temptation
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God's Firemen
A great thought from Steve on evangelism and apologetics: Many victims of fire die in their sleep–overcome by smoke inhalation. Oblivious to the fire. Oblivious to the peril. They don’t even know that they are dying–until it’s too late to … Continue reading
Quotables
All religions except the Christian are autosoteric…[They all] come in the end to an appeal to the will, the wisdom and the power of man. – Herman Bavinck
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Secret Gender; Or, How to Permanently Mess Up Your Child
Just read this disturbing article about a couple in Sweden who are keeping their child’s gender a secret.
Being Kind is More Important Than Being Right
So read the sign on a public elementary school. As I was reflecting on this statement as I drove past the school, it reminded me once again that children in elementary school are already being inculcated with a particular worldview. … Continue reading
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Tagged kind, love, postmodern, relativism, right, Truth, wrong
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What's He Worth to You?
Matt. 26:6-16 Now when Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. And … Continue reading
De-baptism?
I read an interesting article about Britons seeking “de-baptism.” The National Secular Society (NSS) is now producing and selling certificates of “de-baptism” for those who have left the faith and want to “undo” their baptism. The problem is, from a Biblical … Continue reading
Do You Love Jesus? Part I
This is a true story that occurred in my life a few years back… Two years ago I was at a Fall retreat camp with a group of high school students. There was a speaker who was invited to come … Continue reading
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Tagged antinomianism, assurance, gospel, Jesus, law, love, paul washer, saved
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Transcendentally Arguing for God's Existence
To seek to prove or to disprove the existence of this God would be to seek to deny him. To seek to prove or disprove this God presupposes that man can identify himself and discover facts in relation to laws … Continue reading
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Tagged New Atheism, presuppositional, TAG
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Purgatory: "The doctrine upon which the Roman Catholic church stands or falls"- Part I
Martin Luther once said that the doctrine of salvation by faith alone (sole fide) was the point upon which the church stands or falls. How true it is. To deny salvation by God’s grace alone and introduce a formula of … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic, faith, grace, Papists, Pope, purgatory, Rome
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What Was in The Cup? (Part III)
Luke 12:50 But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed! We have seen that the contents of the cup that Christ drank from was that of God’s justice and wrath. Through the … Continue reading
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Tagged baptism, grace, wrath
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What Was in The Cup? (Part II)
Proverbs 17:15 He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD. Throughout the course of the history of humanity there has always existed a problem between God and … Continue reading
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Tagged grace, holiness, justice, propitiation, wrath
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