Psalm 8 is a psalm of wonder: “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained; what is man that You take thought of him, and the son of man that You care for him?” (Ps….
Separation is the governing experience of fallen human existence. It begins with the separation of man from God in the garden and ends at the judgment with the ultimate, eternal separation of the righteous and the wicked. Between those two poles, every form of separation —…
Christ is the Prince of Peace, who alone gives peace with God, peace with others, and peace within; sin is the disturber of all three, and that peace is enjoyed only by being reconciled to God in Christ and submitting to His terms. Everyone is hunting…
Within God’s commands there is a difference between the essential — what He specified and bound — and the incidental circumstances He left to human judgment; faithfulness keeps the essentials exactly while allowing liberty in the incidentals, neither binding what God left free nor loosing what…
The marriage of one man to one woman is not incidental imagery — it is the relationship God uses to describe the bond between Christ and his church. One Christ; one church. Any affection given to a substitute institution is spiritual adultery. Paul’s instruction in Ephesians…
The word of God is not one power among others; it is the power through which God has always worked — creating the cosmos, sustaining it, ending it, and in the interval producing the new creation of souls through the gospel. “The gospel is the power…
The Bible is the source of all fundamental sermon material. Everything a preacher needs to address the human condition is present in the revealed facts about God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, the church, sin, and promised blessing. Secondary material — illustrations from experience — supplements but…
Human judgment is persistently wrong when it operates from outward appearance alone — and six biblical cases demonstrate the pattern. God alone judges from the inside. Man’s judgment is often wrong. The instinct to assess a person, a situation, or a claim at a glance is…
The millennial theory is built on a single figurative text in the most symbolic book of the New Testament. Every other fundamental doctrine of the New Testament is taught repeatedly in plain language. The Millennium is not. Only speculative teaching can be given for it —…
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…