I. Gospel-induced Anxiety – 3:1-5; The gospel creates a number of earnest and irrepressible expectations and desires A. We and I – The ...
The Southern Baptists Convention (SBC) needs a change of direction. Over our 177-year history the Lord has enabled the churches of the SBC ...
Faith is not a one-time event for the Christian. It is not merely something that we did at some point in our past. ...
It’s easy to be against something. Within any wrong system (i.e., Church Planting Movements theory), we find much fodder for articles on why ...
I’ve heard Tom Ascol on a few occasions say, “The SBC is not important, but it matters.” That is, the SBC has been ...
Several years ago a fellow pastor who served with me at Grace Baptist Church told me how he came to study the doctrine ...
“Why do you wear a beard? Our last pastor said godly men are clean-shaven.” “Do your wife and kids ever get tired of ...
Paul’s knowledge of the gospel was a gift of immediate special revelation. He made specific claims to this throughout his ministry and by ...
This letter was sent to Philemon, probably carried by Onesimus, along with the letter to the church at Colossae and probably with the ...
I. A life that reflects what it means to have risen with Christ includes stable, orderly, and productive domestic relations. Sometimes these instructions ...
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. ...
I. Paul’s Struggle for the Church in General A. Paul, even according to his first calling (Acts 9:16), had a ministry of suffering ...
Since the Biden Administration mandated soldiers and federal workers to be fully vaccinated, while also requiring private businesses larger than 100 employees to ...
I. Based on his knowledge of their faith, their observable love for other gospel believers, their status as heirs of the blessed hope, ...
I. The Philippians concern is the Lord’s Provision (10-14) – God executes his providential decrees through means, both natural and personal. He might ...
I. Paul speaks publicly to specific individuals (1-3) A. Paul began by expressing his deep and heartfelt love for the people of the ...
On the evening of October 19, 1856, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the twenty-two year old pastor of the New Park Street Chapel in London, ...
Paul finds an opportunity to demonstrate what it means to “approve what is excellent.” In two instances he describes options before him and ...
Introduction: The founding of this church is described in Acts 16. The direction of the apostolic ministry to the west was pivotal in ...
You wouldn’t expect it, things normally being clearer up close, but the human race has a knack for seeing idolatry at a distance. ...
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