Here is an excerpt from John Piper’s sermon, “The Free Will of the Wind” “This is what we mean when we use terms like sovereign grace or irresistible grace. We mean that the Holy Spirit is God’s Spirit, and therefore he is omnipotent and sovereign. And therefore, he is irresistible and infallibly effective in his [...]
Archive for November, 2009
God’s Call to Salvation, Part 1
Posted: November 30, 2009 in SalvationTags: Charles Ryrie, Common grace, Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin, Louis Berkhof, The Holy Spirit by Charles Ryrie
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“What is Man?” Or, “Who am I?” Sermon on Psalm 8
Posted: November 29, 2009 in SermonsTags: Charles H. Spurgeon, Dr. John Whitcomb, Harlod W. Hoehner, James Montgomery Boice, John Wesley, Michael Moore, Psalm 8
David is not having an Identity Crisis when he asks “What is Man?” Dr. John Whitcomb said, “The 2nd leading group in America to commit suicide is university students who are searching for answers and can’t find them in secular humanism. The 1st group is psychologists who think they have the answers and do not.” [...]
Should Christian Leaders Sign The Manhattan Declaration Response, Part 2
Posted: November 27, 2009 in News, Pastoral TheologyTags: Albert Mohler, Alistair Begg, evangelicals, Evanglicals and Catholics Together, James White, John MacArthur, Michael Horton, R. C. Sproul, Roman Catholicism, The Manhattan Declaration
We support the three moral and political issues The Manhattan Declaration defends. We support the sanctity of life which the culture of death threatens in the form of abortion, ethnic cleansing, and euthanasia. We also support the integrity of marriage and the defense of religious liberty. We support these important moral issues but not at [...]
Should Christian Leaders Sign The Manhattan Declaration? Part 1
Posted: November 26, 2009 in News, Pastoral TheologyTags: Al Mohler, John MacArthur, The Manhattan Declaration
Read these three documents and post your response: 1. The Manhattan Declaration 2. Al Mohler’s defense for signing the Manhattan Declaration 3. John MacArthur’s defense for not signing the Manhattan Declaration What say you? Defend your view of signing or not signing this document!
An Expose of Emerging Church Preaching, Part 5
Posted: November 23, 2009 in Emerging Church, Homiletics/PreachingTags: 9Marks, Confessions of a Reformission, Contextualization, Doug Pagitt, John McArthur, Mark Driscoll, Preaching Re-Imagined: The Role of the Sermon in Communities of Faith, Steven J. Lawson, The New York Times, Tim Challies, Walter Kaiser
I listen to Driscoll’s sermons, read his books, watch his Youtubes, and benefit from them. The first Driscoll sermon I heard was his sermon on the Trinity and I thought, “This is the best sermon on the Trinity I have ever heard. Come to think, this is the only sermon on the Trinity I have ever [...]
A Thanksgiving Sermon from Ephesians 5:20
Posted: November 21, 2009 in Ephesians Class, SermonsTags: Dr. Alexander Whyte, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving sermon
We can view every situation of life positively or negatively. We can choose to be grateful or ungrateful. Dr. Alexander Whyte, (January 13, 1836 – January 6, 1921), is best known as the author of Bible Characters From the Old and New Testaments, was a pastor in Edinburgh and noted for finding good in all circumstances [...]
An Expose of Emerging Church Preaching, Part 4
Posted: November 20, 2009 in Emerging Church, Homiletics/PreachingTags: An Emergent Manifesto of Hope, Billy Sunday, Brian McLaren, Emerging Church, Gary E. Gilley, John McArthur, Mark Driscoll, Richard Mouw, The Radical Reformission, Tim Challies, Tim LaHaye, Tony Jones
What unifies the doctrinally divergent EC is the passion to impact culture. This passion is driven, in part, by the philosophy of liberal postmillennialism where the church will build the Kingdom of God which is followed by the return of Christ. The premillennial view of Christ’s return is that Christ will return and establish the [...]
