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At our family devotion, I was reading to our kids from “The Gospel Story Bible.” The story was about Moses and how his first few confrontations with Pharaoh didn’t seem to go well. The lesson concluded, “It may seem like things were not going well for Moses, but we can’t forget that God’s plan can…
From the blog this week: The Necessity of the Atonement Following Jesus When It’s Difficult “If it’s just about how many people raise their hands, or come forward at the close of the service, if it’s just about stats at the end of the outreach event, or camp, or rally—then sure, tell people that Jesus…
We’ve been looking at the atonement in our study of Great Doctrines of the Bible by Martyn Lloyd-Jones. First, we looked at a few theories of the atonement that don’t do justice to the teaching of Scripture. Then, we looked at the biblical teaching of the substitutionary death of Christ. In chapter 30, Lloyd-Jones argues…
From the blog this week: The Substitutionary Death of Christ Carve Your Eyeball Out of its Socket “Jesus would not use the language of chopping off a hand or plucking out an eye if the habitual indulging of lust was some little ol’ thing you could manage. Free porn will cost you more than you…
Today we’ll continue our study of “Great Doctrines of the Bible” by Martyn Lloyd-Jones by examining chapter 29, “Substitution.” In our last post, we looked at some of the false theories of the atonement. However, while some of these theories had elements of truth in them, none of them fully dealt with the biblical teaching…
From the blog this week: Top 10 Posts of 2019 Neither Sin nor Death nor Elections Can Hinder God’s Work in 2020 “The gospel promise that’s become precious to me, however, has more grit and hope than any election propaganda or prosperity sermon could offer.” Seize the Morning: New Habits for a New Year “Is…
Here is a list of the 10 most viewed posts of 2019: 10. 6 Reasons Christians Should be Readers “For many, the mere thought of reading elicits the same response as nails scratching a chalkboard. While it might seem like a long lost art, the value of reading has been recognized all throughout human history….
From the blog this week: What Does Scripture Teach About Joy? Grace: The Dominant Note of Christmas “So the eternal Word of God took on human flesh, and in that way the divine Son of God—who never had an origin, and never came into being, and was God, but was also with God— became man….
Yesterday at church I preached about joy in our advent series. We spent most of the time trying to come to an understanding of biblical joy and our need to fight for it daily. As we daily fight for joy, we must be equipped with the truth of God’s Word and know what it says….
From the blog this week: 9 Favorite Reads of 2019 Don’t Mistake Experience for Growth “It’s a sad truth that many churches are full of people who have professed saving faith in Christ, attended and served faithfully for twenty to thirty-plus years, taught Sunday school, and read their Bibles, but have not been transformed at…