The Bible tells us that the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. From the Garden of Eden until the present day, human beings have been taking good things and twisting them for sinful purposes. We can even twist the pursuit of holiness and make it something sinful. The pursuit of holiness is [...]
If I am a real Christian, I will make it my aim to please God. If I am a real Christian, I will no longer base my decisions on what my culture tells me or the opinions of others or what my inner feelings tell me or what my hormones tell me or what tradition [...]
Sermon Summary: This Sunday our passage will be John 19:16b-27. The title of the sermon is The Glory of Christ. The crucifixion in John’s gospel is recounted in four words but the events, characters and communications at the cross are given great emphasis by John. On Sunday we will see how John uses these details [...]
Sermon Summary: This week’s sermon is called Behold the Man! It is an exposition of John 19:1-16. Having established last week that Jesus is the truth and the Scriptures are the truth, this week we see the truth on full display. We see that the Truth is mocked, misunderstood, feared and ultimately rejected. Ultimately we [...]
In my Bible reading today I read Joshua 7 and Acts 7. This was an interesting juxtaposition of passages as both contain an account of a stoning for very different reasons. In Joshua chapter 7, Achan and his family are put to death for their sin of keeping plunder from the conquest of Jericho in [...]
Early this morning I was awakened by two crying babies, one three weeks old and one two years old. This is a regular occurrence in our household and most of the time I can eventually go back to sleep. But today some thoughts about sin came to mind. I want to share these thoughts with [...]
In Sunday’s sermon on John 18:28-40, entitled What is Truth?, we found that the answer John’s gospel gives to this question is that Jesus is truth and the word of God is truth. As I was thinking about this later in the day, the thought occurred that perhaps there were other truths as well, such [...]
This week’s sermon is called “What is Truth?” and is from John 18:28-40. The setting of the passage is the interaction of Pilate with the religious leaders and with Jesus. In the passage, Pilate goes back and forth between Jesus and the religious leaders, providing a vivid picture of the choice Pilate faced. He would [...]
This week I am starting something new which I hope to continue on a weekly basis. I am calling this weekly article Notes from the Study. The focus of this article is to share with you some things I have studied for the upcoming Sunday morning sermon which I would not have time to cover [...]
