Archive for October, 2009
Week 5: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians: Stop Living Like Unbelievers:(Ephesians 4:25-32) Part 2
Posted: October 31, 2009 in Ephesians Class, SermonsTags: Charles Spurgeon, Ed Stetzer, Gary Inrig
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Week 5: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians: Stop Living Like Unbelievers:(Ephesians 4:17-24) Part 1
Posted: October 31, 2009 in Ephesians Class, SermonsTags: Ed Stetzer's Lost and Found, John MacArthur, Michael Duduit, Renald E. Showers' The New Nature
Week 5 Assignment: Read pages 163-179 in MacArthur and Eph 4:17-24 and comment. One of the greatest evidences of true Christianity is a changed life. One of the greatest proofs to a skeptical world is a changed life. One of the greatest hindrances to the world is the absence of a changed life. One opponent of Christianity said, [...]
Week 4: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians: “Five Marks” of a Healthy Church (Ephesians 4:12-16)
Posted: October 27, 2009 in Ephesians Class, SermonsTags: Harold W. Hoehner, Harold W. Hoehner's Ephesians: An Exegetical Commentary, Mark Dever, What is a Healthy Church?
Week 4 Assignment: Pages 133-162 in MacArthur and Eph 4:7-16. What would you list as marks of a healthy church? 1. A large congregation 2. Programs for every age group 3. Plentiful parking 4. Vibrant music 5. An increase in baptisms and membership 6. Giving (More than 20% of the people giving) What are the Marks of [...]
Some Practical Tips for Series Preaching Through a Book
Posted: October 23, 2009 in Homiletics/PreachingTags: Adrian Rogers, Donald Sunukjian, Harold W. Hoehner's Ephesians: An Exegetical Commentary, Jim Rose, John MacArthur, John Whitcom, Mark Dever, Mark Driscoll, Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods, Warren W. W, What is a Healthy Church?
First, it is important to start early in your planning. Six months in advance will can give you time to start reading through the book and even having your devotions from the book from which you will be eventually preaching. This is method of Jim Rose and I believe Ezra. Ezra 7:10 gives me Biblical justification [...]
Week 4: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians: Orthodoxy verses Orthopraxy: Eph 4:1-6
Posted: October 23, 2009 in Church Ministries, Ephesians Class, SermonsTags: Five Streams of the Emerging Church, Leadership Magazine, Mark Driscoll, Scott McKnight, Vintage Church: Timeless Truths and Timely Methods
Week 4 Assignment: Read pages 115-131 in MacArthur and Eph 4:1-6 and comment. Emerging Church Theologian, Scott McKnight states that “a notable emphasis of the emerging movement is orthopraxy.” McKnight wrote a very helpful primer on five basic themes in the Emerging Church in a Leadership article entitled “Five Streams of the Emerging Church.” The five [...]
Week 4: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians: Paul’s Prison Prayers: A Model for Our Praying: Eph 3:14-21
Posted: October 23, 2009 in Ephesians Class, SermonsTags: Mark Dever, Prayer, Prison Epistles, Warren W. Wiersbe, What is a Healthy Church?
Week 4 Assignment: Read pages 99-162 in MacArthur and Eph 3:14-4:16 and comment on the three posts for this week. Paul is physically bound to a Roman guard in prison, but his soul is free to access through prayer the very Throne of God. Paul exercises that privilege four times in his Prison Epistles (Ephesians 1:15-23; [...]
Sermon Illustration: Praise Choruses Or Hymns?
Posted: October 21, 2009 in Music, Pastoral Theology, Sermon IllustrationsTags: Church music controversy, Illustration, Romans 14 illustration
I heard this illustration from two different preachers on the controversy of church music and thought some of you would apprecate it and may want to file it away for preaching on Romans 14 and Christian Liberty. That is what I did. When I heard it the first time, I told the preacher I would [...]
Week 3: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians, Part 3 “God’s Call to The Ministry Verses God’s Call to Ministry”
Posted: October 16, 2009 in Ephesians Class, Homiletics/Preaching, SermonsTags: C. J. Mahaney, Charles Spurgeon, Ed Stetzer, G. Campbell Morgan, Harold W. Hoehner, Humility:True Greatness, John Broadus, John MacArthur, John Piper, Justin Taylor, Leonard Sweet, Lloyd Perry, Martin Lloyd-Jones, So Beautiful, Stephen J. Hankins, W. H. Griffith Thomas, Warren W. Wiersbe
Week 3 Assignment: Ephesians 3:1-13. In his book, So Beautiful, Leonard Sweet slams God called pastors, ordination, and any distinction between clergy and laity calling such ideas “heresy.” Sweet writes: Presbyterian Robert T. Henderson and Southern Baptist Ed Stetzer are calling loudly for the de-clergification of the church. How “clergified” is your church? If the distinctions [...]
Week 3: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians, Part 2 “The Church”
Posted: October 10, 2009 in Ephesians Class, Sermons, The ChurchTags: Bob Roberts, Ed Stetzer, John MacArthur, Mark Driscoll, The Missional Church
1. There is Positional Unity in the Church (Ephesians 2:11-13). 2. There is Positional Unity in the Church because of the Reconciling Death of Christ (Ephesians 2:14-18). Two reconciliations took place at the cross. A. The first was the reconciliation of Jews and Gentiles. The death of Christ is repeated throughout verses 13-16: “by the [...]
