Tim Keller in chapter four, “The Church is Responsible for So Much Injustice,” responds to skeptics who throw up slavery in the Bible as evidence of injustice by saying, “Even though slavery in some form was virtually universal in every human culture over the centuries, it was Christians who first came to the conclusion that [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Week 10: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians: Slaves and Slave Owners, Part 2
Posted: December 31, 2009 in Ephesians Class, SermonsTags: ABC News, Albert Mohler, Dan Harris, Free The Slaves, John MacArthur, Slavery, Tim Keller, William Wilberforce
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Week 10: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians: Slaves and Slave Owners (Eph 6:5-9) Part 1
Posted: December 26, 2009 in Book Reviews, Ephesians ClassTags: Epictetus, Harold W. Hoehner's Ephesians: An Exegetical Commentary, Homer Kent, Mark Driscoll, Racism, The reason for God, Tim Keller
Week 10 Assignment: Read pages 321-329 in MacArthur and Ephesians 6:5-9. Read and comment on the four posts for week ten. Mark Driscoll said in his sermon on Slaves and Masters, “Slavery is a shameful page in the history of our nation and history of the American church. Many of the framers of our Constitution claimed to be [...]
Week 9: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians: Spirit-Filled Children
Posted: December 22, 2009 in Ephesians Class, SermonsTags: Ellissa Reinsma, Ephesians 6:1-4, John MacArthur, John Piper
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Week 8: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians: The Spirit-Filled Marriage, Part 2
Posted: December 16, 2009 in Ephesians Class, SermonsTags: C. J. Mahaney, Charles Spurgeon, Goog to Great, Harod W. Hoehner, Humility: True Greatness, Marriage, Tim Collins
Spurgeon once said, “When the home is ruled according to God’s Word, angels might be asked to stay with us, and they would not find themselves out of their elements.” Only Spirit filled believers could enjoy such a home life. If the key word that described the Spirit-filled wife was “submit”, the key word for [...]
Week 8: The NEW Bible Institute on Ephesians: The Spirit-Filled Marriage, Part 1
Posted: December 14, 2009 in Ephesians Class, SermonsTags: Ephesians 5:18-33, Harold W. Hoehner's Ephesians: An Exegetical Commentary, Spirit Filled Marriage
Reading assignments: Read pages 271-305 in MacArthur and Ephesians 5:21-33 and comment on the two posts for week 8. One of my teachers once said, “Marriage is like a besieged city. Those on the inside want out and those on the outside want in.” Seriously, our churches will be no stronger than our families [...]
Sermon: “Winning Souls by Prayer”
Posted: December 10, 2009 in SermonsTags: G. Michael Cocoris, Henry and Richard Blackaby, Lewis Sperry Chafer, Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Prayer, Soulwinning, Spiritual Leadership, True Evangelism: Winning Souls by Prayer
In Bible college our textbook for our Evangelism class was Lewis Sperry Chafer’s “True Evangelism: Winning Souls by Prayer.” He writes, “The personal element in true soul-winning work is more a service of pleading for souls than a service of pleading with souls. It is talking with God about men from a clean heart and in [...]
Why the Popularity and Difficulty of Narrative Preaching? The Hermeneutic Paradigm Shift: Part 2a
Posted: December 4, 2009 in Preaching NarrativesTags: Sidney Greidanus, The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text, Walter C. Kaiser, Toward an Exegetical Theology, John Martin, David C. Deuel, Rediscovering Expository Preaching, Richard Mayhue
From the first post, we learned that preachers are hestitant to preach narratives because of homiletical reasons. But there are hermeneutical reasons as well. David Deuel asks, ”Why do preachers usually not preach biblical narratives (i.e., stories) as stories?….Many seem uncomfortable in preaching narrative as story, perhaps fearing to appear ridiculous or sound condescending….Narratives make its [...]
A Call to Salvation, Part 3
Posted: December 3, 2009 in SalvationTags: Charles Ryrie, Harold W. Hoehner, Lewis Sperry Chafer, Richard Watson, Wayne Grudem
A. There is a general or external call or invitation of the gospel. B. There is a special or effective call to salvation. Charles Ryrie observes: The vast majority of occurrences concern the effectual call which leads to salvation. From such verses as Romans 1:1; 8:28; I Timothy 6:12; II Peter 1:3, 10 it is [...]
