The New Testament is the inspired Word of God because Christ, who possessed all authority, delegated it to the apostles, and the Holy Spirit guaranteed the accuracy and completeness of their record. Some people accept the Old Testament as inspired by God but hold the New…
The last words of Scripture before the benediction are not a command, a condemnation, or a prophecy — they are an invitation, and that invitation is deliberately open to anyone who will come. The book of Revelation closes with a scene of cosmic completion: the new…
“It is well to tell the sick of a physician; the poor of riches; the dying of life; the lost of a Savior; and the impenitent of hell.” The opening line is exactly right. This is not a subject a preacher enjoys. But silence on hell…
“Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places” (John 14:1-2). Jesus said that on the night He was betrayed, to people who were about to watch everything they thought they understood fall…
God has always blessed obedience and condemned disobedience; there is only one way to obey — to do what God says, as He directs — but four ways to disobey: refusing, adding, subtracting, and substituting, and all four stand equally condemned. Man is the most disobedient…
The church is a divine-human institution: its strength is wholly in its divine element — God’s plan, Christ’s blood, His headship, the Spirit’s indwelling — and its weakness is wholly in its human element, the frail members who carry the work; so the cure for the…
The second coming of Christ is a fundamental, frequently-taught fact of the New Testament, to be neither ignored nor turned into a hobby; and because Scripture said certain things must occur before He came, the New Testament does not teach that His return was “imminent” —…
The decisive question about the second coming is not when but why — and Scripture answers plainly: Christ comes not to set up an earthly kingdom but to complete the church, end every agency of salvation, close the church’s ordinances and His own intercession, raise and…
When Jesus rolled up the scroll at Nazareth, He gave us a picture of His whole work: He closed the book on Old Testament prophecy by fulfilling it, completed God’s revelation as the final Word, and will one day close the book on human history and…
When Christians grow weary, distracted, or spiritually sluggish, the answer is not novelty but a return to the fundamentals. This sermon calls the church back to faith, prayer, worship, service, endurance, and first love.