Extemporaneous moments in corporate worship are sometimes the parts that stick with us the most. One such moment came in John Piper’s concluding prayer of a recent sermon on John 8:30-36. Lord, I want to be free. I want my desires so changed into accord with reality so that I can do what I want…
It is a way to retain a sense that we are active agents and not cosmic puppets. It is responding, in part, to those who take a strong position on God’s sovereignty. Especially when it comes to human wrongdoing, free will wants to tip the scales in favor of human agency and go lighter on…
These two mindsets involve fundamentally different values. The highest value of a community with a tribal mindset is self-preservation. A tribal community exists solely for itself, and those within it keep asking, “How can we protect ourselves from those who are different from us?” A tribal mindset is marked by an unbalanced patriotism. It typically…
Jesus Christ fulfilled the Messianic Prophecy foretold by the Old Testament authors. Study the prophecies yourself and consider the probability of just one person fulfilling even a few of these specific prophecies! Luke 24:44 says, “Then he said, ‘When I was with you before, I told you that everything written about me by Moses and…
I. Be well informed of the evil of the sin of lying; for the common cause of it is, that men think that there is no great harm in it, unless some one be greatly wronged by it: but it is not forbidden by God only because it wrongs others, but it has all this…
