GALATIANS Sunday January 19, 2014 Hope’s Only Foundation Galatians 5:1 – 6 III. A Call to Freedom from the Law and Freedom in the Spirit (4:12 – 6:10) A. Live in Freedom from the Law: Argument from Friendship (4:12 – 20) B. Stand in Freedom: Argument from Allegory (4:21 – 5:1) […]
God Is Our Dwelling Place Scripture reveals God as the dwelling place for His children. Psalm 91 in particular speaks of the believer’s privilege of dwelling in the “secret place of the Most High.” God is also referred to as a Rock, Fortress, Shield, Mountain Refuge, and High Tower. God has chosen to reveal […]
GALATIANS Sunday December 1, 2013 Free Children of the Heavenly Jerusalem Galatians 4:21 – 5:1 II. Paul’s Gospel Defended from Experience and Scripture (3:1 – 4:11) 4. The Folly of Reverting to the Law (4:8 – 11) III. A Call to Freedom from the Law and Freedom in the Spirit (4:12 […]
GALATIANS Sunday October13, 2013 Faith’s Needy Cry For God Galatians 3:10 – 14 I. Introduction: Desertion from Paul’s Gospel Is Desertion from the Gospel (1:1 – 2:21) II. Paul’s Gospel Defended from Experience and Scripture (3:1 – 4:11) A. Argument from Experience: Reception of Spirit by Means of Faith, Not Works […]
Early Protestants and Justification by Faith At the time of the 16th century Reformation conversion meant a whole lot more to the first Protestants than it does for modern evangelicals. Faith in Christ meant more than an “individual experience” or “personal testimony.” I do not believe that any of us today can imagine […]
GOD’S SURE AND ETERNAL WORD Sunday, August 18, 2013 I. Psalm 1 The introduction to Psalm 1, (from the NIV Study Bible, Zondervan Publishers). “…Godly wisdom here declares the final outcome of the two ‘ways’: ‘the way that sinners take’ (v.1) and ‘the way of the righteous’ (v. 6)…As part of […]
Some thoughts on the Blood of Christ. “Blood” of course refers to the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ on the cross. 1. Revelation 7:13 – 15a: “Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, ‘who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?’ I (John) said to him, ‘Sir, you know.’ […]
GALATIANS Sunday, August 4, 2013 The Divine Origin of the Gospel Part 2 Galatians 1:11 -17; 18 – 24 Read 1:11 – 24 I. Introduction: Desertion from Paul’s Gospel Is Desertion from the Gospel (1:1 – 2:21) A. Greeting: Paul’s Apostolic Authority (1:1 – 5) B. Problem Explained: Desertion from […]
Why should we read and study the Old Testament? “The most compelling reason for Christians to read and study the Old Testament lies in the New Testament. The New Testament witnesses to the fact that Jesus of Nazareth is the One in whom and through whom all the promises of God find their fulfillment. […]
Having taught a class on biblical hermeneutics I have become much more aware of interpretational errors and assumptions Christians often make. All believers need to master some basic principles of biblical hermeneutics in order to rightly handle God’s Word. As John MacArthur accurately states: “If you don’t have the meaning of Scripture, you do not […]