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  • More Favorite “Got a Minute?” Podcasts

    More Favorite “Got a Minute?” Podcasts

    White boy summer and societal justification: Bitcoin and tariffs: Ernie Yarbrough: Church calendar, Jews, Twitter: Rod Martin on Trump and technology: Meet me: David Edgington and reviling wives: Martyrdom of Kirk: Christopher Columbus and Christian Nationalism: Gen Z in crisis: Calvin Robinson on Islam: Iran, Epstein, and Feminism: Read more

  • Notes on Esther, Genocide, and the Current War with Iran

    Notes on Esther, Genocide, and the Current War with Iran

    Does the Bible tell us anything about the current war America and Israel are waging with Iran? In particular, can we use the book of Esther to justify or condemn the war? Tucker Carlson and Franklin Graham recently expressed diametrically opposed views of the Israeli/American war with Iran, making diametrically opposed appeals to the OT,… Read more

  • The Puritan Hope vs Dispensationalism

    The Puritan Hope vs Dispensationalism

    The “Puritan Hope,” as Iain Murray called it, was not some kind of nascent dispensationalism, as some have suggested. It was just historic postmillennialism, including the view that the Jews (along with every other people group) would be converted at some point in history. The Puritans did not believe Jews were in covenant with God… Read more

  • May 3, 2020 Sermon — God and Our Gatherings: Jesus’ Grace Meets Thomas’ Doubts (John 20:24-29)

    May 3, 2020 Sermon — God and Our Gatherings: Jesus’ Grace Meets Thomas’ Doubts (John 20:24-29)

    We have been told for several weeks now that the church’s worship gatherings are non-essential. That is how they have been categorized. The thought seems to be that the world can get on fine without us. Everything can just go on fine without us. The thought seems to be that without our public prayers, without… Read more

  • Which Way, Western Man: Blaming the Jews or Taking Responsibility?

    Which Way, Western Man: Blaming the Jews or Taking Responsibility?

    Dennis Prager, himself a Jew, points out that virtually all -isms, except Nazism, were founded or led disproportionately by Jews: Marxism, humanism, feminism, environmentalism, LGBTQism, etc. I do not deny Jewish involvement in all of these movements and in some cases that involvement was disproportionate to the Jewish population as a whole. But I also… Read more

  • April 19, 2015 Sermon — No Other God and No Place for Doubt: The Word Was Made Flesh Again, and We Beheld His Glory (John 20:24-31)

    April 19, 2015 Sermon — No Other God and No Place for Doubt: The Word Was Made Flesh Again, and We Beheld His Glory (John 20:24-31)

    Today is the third Lord’s Day of Easter season. But we are going to be looking at what happened on the second Lord’s Day of that very first Easter season. This is eight days after Jesus’ resurrection, which by John’s way of inclusively counting days puts us again on a Sunday, the first day of… Read more