I like what Mike Stallard did when he traced the ministry of the Holy Spirit throughout the OT beginning with the Pentateuch through the Post-exilic books. Another good article is at Treasuring Christ (Were OT Believers Indwelt by the Holy Spirit by Dr. Jim Hamilton).This is laying a biblical theology foundation upon which you can [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Were Old Testament Believers Permanently Indwelt by the Holy Spirit?
Posted: September 30, 2009 in The Holy SpiritTags: John Walvoord, Leon Wood, Mike Stallard, Robert McCabe
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Alleged Contradictions in God’s Word, Part 2
Posted: September 28, 2009 in BibleTags: Alleged contradictions in the Bible, Charles Ryrie, John Calvin, Ronald Youngblood
Bible scholar Ronald Youngblood tells of a personal struggle in ministry with alleged contradictions in the Bible. Several years ago when I was an interim pastor, a member of my congregation came to my office greatly agitated. He’d learned that a seminary instructor had said some numbers in the Old Testament are simply estimates, and he [...]
Alleged Contradictions in God’s Word, Part 1
Posted: September 28, 2009 in BibleTags: B. B. Warfield, Charles Ryrie, E. J. Young, Edward Carnell, Louis Gaussen, Steward Custer
1st Peter 3:15 commands us to “be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.” The word “answer” is “apologiav” in the Greek and means “defense or a thoughtful defense of the faith.” One of the areas we [...]
SERMON: SEALED by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14)
Posted: September 26, 2009 in Ephesians Class, Sermons, The Holy SpiritTags: A. H. Strong, Basics of Biblical Greek, Louis Berkhof, Sealing of the Holy Spirit, Wayne Grudem, William Mounce
Billy said to Jimmy, “My Dad has a list of names of men that he can wipe and your daddy’s name is first on it.” Jimmy went home and told he daddy, “Daddy, I have something to tell you. Billy’s dad has a list of names of men he can wipe and your name is [...]
SERMON: REDEMPTION by God the Son (Ephesians 1:7-12)
Posted: September 26, 2009 in Atonement, Christ, Ephesians Class, SermonsTags: A. H. Strong, Amyraldianism, Arminianism, Atonement, Charles Hodges, Five Point Calvinism, Jacob Arminius, Limited Atonement, Louis Berkhof, Mark Driscoll, Millard Erickson, Moses Amyraut, Paul Hartog, Philip Schaff, Phillip Johnson, Robert Lightner, Synod of Dort, The Creeds of Christendom, The Death Christ Died
Mark Driscoll set off a controversy among some of the reformed, whom he called, ”Young, nitpicking, theologically geeky, Calvinist crazy-makers who are like a rock in my shoe” when he preached his modified Calvinist position on the death of Christ which he calls “The unlimited, limited atonement.” Click to hear the sermon http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/christ-on-the-cross/unlimited-limited-atonement. Did Christ die for [...]
SERMON: ELECTION by God the Father (Ephesians 1:3-6)
Posted: September 25, 2009 in Election, Ephesians Class, Salvation, SermonsTags: A. A. Hodge, A. H. Strong, Charles Ryrie, Charles Spurgeon, Clark Pinnock, DR. Hoyle Bowman's A Case for Unlimited Atonement, Election, Erwin Lutzer
Do you understand completely the doctrine of election? If you do, don’t even try to explain it to the rest of us for we would never comprehend your explanation anyway. Only our infinite God fully grasps fully this doctrine. Yet, the fact that believers are chosen by God before the foundation of the earth can not be [...]
Seven Steps to Preparing a Sermon, Step 5 (Develop the Sermon Outline) Part 3 “Application”
Posted: September 23, 2009 in How To Prepare A SermonTags: Donald R. Sunukjian, Haddon Robinson, Invitation to Biblical Preaching, Mark Driscoll
A Sermon Without Application is like someone shouting to a drowning man “swim” “swim” but not throwing him a life preserver. Spurgeon believed so strongly in sermon application that he said, “Where application begins, there the sermon begins.” John R. W. Stott, in his book Between Two Worlds, believed this is the part of the sermon [...]
Sermon on God’s Will in Proverbs 3:5-6
Posted: September 22, 2009 in SermonsTags: Charles Wesley, Feet of Clay, Gary Inrig, Hearts of Iron, John Wesley, The Mystery of God's Will
When John Wesley was thirty-two years old, he was a bachelor missionary in the colony of Georgia. While he was serving a church in Savannah, he met a young woman named Sophia Christian Hopkey. She was pretty and intelligent, and Wesley fell head over heels in love with her. But Wesley belonged to a group [...]
