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Month: February 2014
Christian Marriage Plain and Simple
Read: Eph. 4:31–32 Introduction You might find strange that the biblical text doesn’t seem to relate specifically about marriage at all. Paul is giving the church general instructions, but he doesn’t say anything specifically at this point about the family or marriage, which is what I’m preaching about. So, what does this passage have to do [...]
Baptism: Salvation by Judgment
Read: 1 Pet. 3:18–22 I want to draw attention to Peter’s unique — striking, in fact — teaching on baptism. I’ve preached many, many times at our church about baptism, but somehow I think this is first time I’ve addressed this passage, which is a very important one. Peter has been addressing the topic of [...]
John M. Frame’s Sola Scriptura Systematics
Ever since John M. Frame’s systematic theology was released last November, I intended to promote and explain it for a wider audience, and Tom Chantry’s recent critique has furnished me a suitable opportunity. Did I say “critique”? It’s more like a bludgeoning: “[I]t is my firm opinion that John Frame is one of the most [...]
God’s Blessing of Common Grace
Read Acts 4:11–17 Introduction I’m preaching unusual messages both this week and next. You don’t often hear sermons these days on the topics I’m addressing, but the topics are important, and they’re biblical. One reason Christians don’t know about these topics is that their pastors don’t preach on them. Their pastors rob them of biblical [...]
A Tale of Two Inequalities
If one sentence summarized Pres. Barack Obama’s theme in his 2014 State of the Union address, it is “Inequality has deepened.” He stated: Today, after four years of economic growth, corporate profits and stock prices have rarely been higher, and those at the top have never done better. But average wages have barely budged. But [...]
Red-Letter Ethics (or, With Evangelicals Like These, Who Needs Marcion?)
Daniel Kirk, NT prof at Fuller Seminary-Menlo Park and prototypical young evangelical scholar (translation: we young-uns can't abide biblical evangelicalism), wants a Christocentric view of biblical authority. What evangelical doesn't? But Professor Kirk lets us in on what his Christ-centered bibliology might look like in this comment: There are hundreds of ways in which the OT would [...]
