After a recent hospitalization, I assured my wife Marsha that I would follow my doctor’s orders to the strictest degree. He told me to ease back into my regular schedule gradually because I needed to regain my endurance. I was sent home with an anti-viral prescription that I needed to take in its entirety. I …
Psalm 41:3: The Lord will strengthen him on his bed of illness; You will sustain him on his sickbed. I recently spent four days in the hospital for a severe case of adult chicken pox. I was the sickest I have been in my entire life with intense pain and a fever that spiked at …
Before Jesus ever went to the cross there was a Gethsemane. Regarding peering into Gethsemane, Charles Haddon Spurgeon remarked: We have thus come to the gate of the garden of Gethsemane, let us now enter; but first let us put off our shoes from our foot, as Moses did, when he also saw the bush …
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek …
There have been three major theological positions regarding Scripture in the 20th and 21st centuries: liberalism, neo-orthodoxy, and orthodoxy. There are subsets and nuances of these three theological positions. Each has its own unique view of the inerrancy and sufficiency of Scripture. 1. Liberal Minds Liberalism can trace its beginning to the age of the Enlightenment. The …
I have been a student of preaching since my first sermon preparation class at Southeastern Baptist Theological College in 1998. And, I am not a student of just any kind of preaching, but expository preaching. It has been my pleasure to learn and grow in the task of expository preaching. Recently, several things have caused …
I do not remember a time when I did not believe that the Bible was God’s Word. As a child, I believed it was a unique book that was above every other book. I came to know Christ in my early 20’s and began to spend time with my pastor as we rode together to …
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