Rightly Receiving the Word
James 1:19-21 If you would open your Bibles to the first chapter of the book of James, that’s where we’re going to be this morning. This week and next week really does flow well out of what, what Bret was talking about, the end of Psalm 19 last week. So it’ll be good for us. And in, in preparation, trying to get to the communion service on time, I just shredded up my introduction really small for you all. So…
God’s Word: Its Ministry and Excellency as Applied to the Believer in Contrast to the Virtual World
Psalm 19:7-14 If you missed last week, we started into Psalm 19. And we looked at the first 6 verses of that psalm, which talked about general revelation: the created world, its nature, its effects, and how we can apply that. And today we’re gonna finish up this psalm talking about special revelation, the revealed Word of God, and the right response that we should have to it. So if you’re not already there, turn with me to Psalm 19,…
God’s World: Its Nature and Effects as Applied to the Believer in Contrast to the Virtual World
Psalm 19:1-6 If you would turn with me in your Bibles for our message this morning to Psalm 19, and as you turn to Psalm 19, I was directed to this passage in the Lord’s good Providence as I recently read a book called, “12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You” by Tony Reinke. And if you ran into me during the conference in the conference bookstore, you probably heard me tell you that if you were going to buy…
Hope for the Discouraged
Psalm 42
Session 6: The Cross and Suffering
John 16:33 Well, I am sure that you have met people like I am about to describe. Whenever you talk with them, the conversation tends to go in the same direction, again and again. You ask them how they’re doing. I’m great. My spouse is great. My kids are great My job is great, My health is great. My house is great. My quiet time is great. Everything’s great. So enough about me. How are you? I’ve never said, in…
Session 5: The Cross Marks the Minister
Colossians 1:24-2:7 Let’s take a moment and open in a word of prayer this morning. Our Father, we thank you for your holiness, and we thank you for this great gospel, that we have heard the proclamation of so faithfully through this weekend. We thank you for the gospel that saves us. We thank you for the Christ whom you sent to redeem us from our sins, to satisfy the demands of your perfect justice. It is death on the…
Session 4: The Cross and Divine Wisdom
1 Corinthians 2:1-16 In light of what we just heard, I invite you to return to the letter of 1 Corinthians to the second chapter in order that you can see how Paul executed on this cross-centered paradigm in his ministry. In this session, we’re going to observe how Paul’s cross-centered paradigm clarifies and simplifies our ministry, how it helps us stay on target in our ministry in order that we, through our ministry and by God’s grace, unleash God’s…
Session 3: The Cross and the Pulpit
1 Corinthians 1:18-25 I invite you to turn to the book of 1 Corinthians, Chapter 1, as we open our time together this evening, as we come to a text that shows us the centrality of the Theology of the Cross, in a ministry of a Christian pulpit. And this is a most instructive text, one that I’ve loved over the years and feel privileged to be able to bring to you here this evening. 1 Corinthians chapter 1, beginning…
Session 2: The Cross and Justification
Romans 3:21-31 I invite you to turn as we begin. I’d just like to begin by reading the text that we’re going to look at in the session in Romans chapter 3, Romans chapter 3, beginning in verse 21, it is a highly concentrated passage of rich doctrine of profound theology and of profound significance as we consider the theology of the Cross with a conference theme emphasizing the cross, not glory. What we’re going to see this evening is…
Session 1: The Paradigm of the Cross
Matthew 16:13-24 I just want to thank you all for coming. It’s wonderful to see so many smiling faces ready to receive the Word of God at our Pillar of Truth conference this year: “Christ, His Cross, and His Church.” So it’s how the, how the ministry of Christ in the cross sets the tone for the entire Christian life. It’s the paradigm for the Christian life and the paradigm for ministry in the church. So I have, my task…