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The Illustration His mom had laid out the situation. The room was to be clean by 4:00 p.m. If he completed the job on time, she would buy him movie tickets so he could go out with his friends. If he did not finish on time, he would be grounded for a week. At 4:00 […]
Read More Understanding Justification: The Necessity of Double ImputationDo not lay up treasures on earth. – Matt. 6:19 Why should we not lay up treasures on earth? In Matthew 6:19-24, Jesus is in the middle of His Sermon on the Mount and he is addressing us about our relationship to the treasures of this world. Not only does he give us this command, but […]
Read More Do Not Lay Up Treasures on EarthWhat does it mean to lay up treasures in heaven? Presented on Easter morning 2013 at Bethel Grace Baptist Church, this sermon looks at Christ’s convicting command to not lay up treasures on the earth but to instead lay up treasures in heaven. It then looks at the four reasons Jesus gives to follow this […]
Read More Christ’s Four Reasons to not Love the Treasures of this WorldI am currently teaching through the Sermon on the Mount. The lessons are being uploaded weekly at the Bethel Grace Baptist Church website. I am using Martyn Lloyd Jones’ book, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, if you would like to follow along. Some of the topics we will be covering include… Matt 5:1-4 – Introduction […]
Read More Understanding the Sermon on the MountThe thought of going into a theater with a loved one and having to leave them there as part of the crime scene, because they were killed by a gunman who opened fire on the crowd is almost too much to imagine. Yet this is what happened to several people last night. Events like the […]
Read More The Dark Knight in Denver and the Light of the WorldI saw the effects of it today in an old friend who is being ravished by a disease that has attacked his mental capacities to the point he has lost the ability to speak. I saw it in another friend who is fighting with the grief of losing their spouse to illness. It reared its […]
Read More The Tyranny of SinSocial justice seems to be something that everyone should be working toward, but why is there often differences of opinion between conservatives and liberals on the topic?
Read More What’s Wrong With Social Justice?Exegesis is foundational to understand scripture’s application to our lives. The problem is that many in the church want to hear the application without doing the work of the exegete. In many cases this has also been translated into the way many preachers preach. In order to keep congregants happy, they are given large amounts […]
Read More Application Without Exegesis: A Destructive TrendHere is a link to a sermon I preached recently at Communion Presbyterian Church on the cities of refuge and how they point to Christ. The text is Joshua 20. The MP3 can also be downloaded at the link. Christ our Refuge God Bless, Doug
Read More Christ Our Refuge (How the Cities of Refuge Point to Christ)Why is it that many Christians who decry Christian political involvement (read Tony Campolo types) because power and politics are tools of Satan, then go on to argue for government solutions to global warming and health care? Do they really want Satan and his tools cooling our plannet and running our health care? Perhaps a more […]
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