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  • Baptismal Exhortation: Grace Restores the Family

    Baptismal Exhortation: Grace Restores the Family

    There are many arguments we can derive from Scripture in favor of the practice of baptizing children.  This is the eighth day of Christmas, the day of Christ’s circumcision. We could look at circumcision as a precursor to baptism. If the sign of the righteousness that comes by faith could be applied to children in… Read more

  • Advent/Christmas Exhortation

    Advent/Christmas Exhortation

    Christmas celebrates the incarnation of God’s Son. John describes it as the Word made flesh. Isaiah used the language of “Immanuel,” meaning “God with us.” In the incarnation, God becomes man without ceasing to be God. Jesus Christ, from the point of conception by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, is… Read more

  • Christ the King Sunday 2022 — Sermon Follow Up

    Christ the King Sunday 2022 — Sermon Follow Up

    Sermon — How the Story Ends: Living Every Day in Light of the Last Day (1 Thess. 4:9-18) A few notes, following up on yesterday’s sermon: 1. Frank Senn on the eschatological/political background of Christ the King Sunday: “Christ the King is not a festival of great antiquity, supplying the church year with neat narrative… Read more

  • Wedding Homily #2

    Wedding Homily #2

    This wedding homily from 2014 is based on Romans 5:1-8. The world often seems to be a hopeless place. But as hard as hope is to come by, we cannot live without it. Hope is like oxygen for the soul. Without it, we suffocate. There is no greater pain than hopelessness; and yet with hope,… Read more

  • Wedding Homily #1

    Wedding Homily #1

    I will occasionally post old wedding homilies on the blog.This one is from my son’s wedding in September, 2022. John and Madison — it is a great honor to do your wedding service today. John, it has been a great pleasure for your mother and I to raise you and we could not be more proud of you. Madison, we have been… Read more

  • Who are the Modern Day Pharisees?

    Who are the Modern Day Pharisees?

    When Tim Keller preached his sermons on Luke 15 and wrote his book on the parable of the prodigal son, he treated the elder brother as a type of conservative/fundamentalist and the younger brother as a typical irreligious liberal. This model explains why he is hard on those to his political and cultural right and… Read more