If you aren’t suffering terribly right now, you know someone who is. John Piper (12/27/09) preached on suffering and Romans 8:15-25 at the Village Church who recently learned that their young senior pastor, Matt Chandler, has a malignant brain tumor. …
Before you preach that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ
Dr. David Martyn Lloyd-Jones: You remember the resounding sentence at the end of the eight chapter of this Epistle to the Romans: ‘I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor…
Who can you encourage “all over the world”?
A chief strategy of the evil one is to isolate Christians. He wants us to believe that we are part of nothing larger than the squabbles in our church committee meetings Satan tries to shrink our conception of what God…
The Trinitarian Gospel
Today (D.V.), I will preach on Paul’s Trinitarian theology in the first seven verses of Romans 1:1-7. Notice the emphasis I have added for the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be…
Sunday’s Sermon: Keep the Big Picture of Salvation History in Mind
If you don’t keep the big picture of what God is doing in salvation-century in the forefront of your thoughts, then very soon the individual episodes of life won’t make any sense. You can listen to the sermon here.
The Miracle that Was Paul: The Apostle to the Gentiles as Powerful Evidence of the Reality of Christianity
We continue the Romans Project today and here it is appropriate to thank God for one of his greatest gifts to his Bride: the Apostle Paul. One cannot study Romans without being in awe of the apostolic ministry of Paul. …
Adventure is found in submitting to God’s will and waiting expectantly to see what He will do
If God did everything as we expected, in the manner we anticipated, then there would be no adventure in the Christians life. Five years ago, this was our family Christmas card. We didn’t know what was next. God led us…
Sources of Authority
God willing, this morning my sermon will focus on the sources of authority we recognize in our lives. Of course, I will preach that God’s Word should be our only rule for life and conduct even as I encourage our…
Gospel Definitions
Trevin Wax is building a collection of Gospel definitions. See here. This will be a valuable resource for our Romans Project at church given the centrality of the Gospel in Romans. I gave a summary of the Gospel here. For…
The Greatest Conversation Ever (And How I Will Introduce Doug Moo on Sunday)
The study of the book of Romans is the greatest conversation that has ever taken place and Dr. Doug Moo has a seat at the table. Imagine a great banquet hall in an ancient castle with a vast round table…