The church is by its very nature a missionary institution: its God-given mission is to uphold and spread the truth of salvation and to seek and save the lost — the same mission as Christ’s — and every member shares it. A congregation that forgets why…
Throughout Scripture the faithful have been the few, not the many — the narrow gate is found by few, and only a remnant has ever held true — so the disciple must have the strength to stand in the minority and be faithful when most are…
Love for God is not a feeling — it is a pattern of obedience. What looks like love but does not produce obedience is not love. What produces obedience, even in the absence of feeling, is love. The normal condition of the human heart is to…
A gospel preacher who does not know the truth he is preaching, the error that opposes it, the conditions he is preaching into, or his own responsibilities has not simply failed to prepare — he has disqualified himself from the task. Knowledge is not optional equipment…
The Bible that records the history of human sin also reveals the remedy for it. The remedy is not spontaneous or accidental — it is a plan, conceived before the creation of the world, assigned to the Redeemer in a covenant between Father and Son, and…
The word “worship” in some form occurs in the Bible 191 times — 113 times in the Old Testament and 78 times in the New Testament. That frequency alone establishes its importance. But frequency of occurrence does not tell us what worship is or whether any…
“What do you think about the Christ?” (Matt. 22:42). The question was first asked by Christ himself to silence the Pharisees. It has been answered by witnesses across every category of credibility — hostile witnesses, sympathetic witnesses, divine witnesses, and everything in between. The convergence of…
Teaching is not one function of the church among several — it is the function on which all other functions depend. God has been teaching from the beginning; every era of redemptive history has been structured around the transmission of divine truth from teacher to learner…
Acts 2 is the hinge of redemptive history. The promises Christ made before his death — “I will build My church” (Matt. 16:18), “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you” (Acts 1:8) — were fulfilled on Pentecost. Peter preached the first…
The burden is two-sided. First: a significant portion of the confusion about the Lord’s Supper comes from names that are not biblical — Eucharist, sacrament, emblems — names that carry theological freight the New Testament does not authorize. The names must be corrected before the practice…