Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching (2 Timothy 4:2, ESV). When I listen to a sermon, I have one overarching standard to judge it: “Does the sermon glorify Scripture?” It can be an exegetical sermon (verse by verse) or topical (a group of passages […]
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Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” (Genesis 1:26a, ESV). In any viewpoint, there are weaknesses, and some of those viewpoints are insurmountable. With atheism or agnosticism, the question — How can we think? — ruins disbelief in God. It’s insurmountable. Can a stone (or any other combination of molecules), after billions
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What, has Pastor Grant succumbed to heresy? The King James Version, along with the New American Standard Bible, English Standard Version, New International Version, and the rest of the hundreds of English translations, only list 1 and 2 Corinthians. Correct, I agree. But in 1 Corinthians 5:9, we read. . . I wrote to you
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Go therefore and make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19a, ESV). My wife and I — along with Rick and Heather Ives, my two daughters, and three grandchildren — leave today for the Philippines. I’m looking forward to this trip. When someone asks me how many short-term mission trips I’ve taken, my answer is, “About 100.” I’ve
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Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us (Colossians 4:2-3a, ESV). For the last four years of my ministry as a pastor at Fellowship Church, a sister would approach me weekly and ask how she could pray for me the next week. I would see her
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A scribe asked Jesus, “Which is the most important commandment of all?” Jesus, as a teacher of the law, was asked for a summary statement of the Judaic faith. Experts are asked to summarize their field of study in brief statements. Businesses refine their purpose with a simple motto of their vision statement. And individuals,
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“Во всем этом не согрешил Иов и не произнес ничего неразумного о Боге.” Иов 1:22 Мы все слышали об испытаниях Иова. Библия говорит просто: “И был день!” Иов 1:13. И в этот день Иов потерял своих сыновей и дочерей, слуг, стада животных и все, что у него было. Но на этом испытания Иова не закончились:
I’ve read Romans 5:5 for years while preaching a memorial service. . . Hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us (NASB1995). When time touches eternity for each of us, will we be disappointed? In some sermons, after preaching about
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I’m not sure what verse of Scripture to use to begin this Interruption. How about. . . For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us (Romans 8:18, ESV). That should do, but I need to reveal some background notes to
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Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:20-21, ESV). From the beginning of Christendom, two viewpoints have dominated the topic of how
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