Category: Bible
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Odds and Ends, June 2024
I wanted to give a little follow-up on my sermons on 1 Samuel 14 from the last couple of weeks: A few links I want to share: At some point, we will have conference video from the “Courageous Church, Hostile World” conference we held at TPC back in February. In the meantime, I wanted to…
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Christmas Meditation: The Invisible Made Visible (John 1:1-18)
These are notes from a sermon Pastor Lusk preached several years ago. This morning we learned that Jesus is the revelation of who God is, of what God is like, of how he has lived from all eternity. Jesus is one with God reveals God as he is in himself. Tonight I want to continue that thought…
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Christmas Meditation: A Day in the Life of God (John 1:1-18)
These are notes from a sermon Pastor Lusk preached several years ago. For most of us, Christmas memories are a vivid part of our life stories. Growing up, we quickly learned to anticipate the Christmas season as the best time of the year. Christmas was a season filled with vivid sights and sounds – the red and…
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Sermon Spin-off — 12/10/23 (1 Samuel 7)
This a slight reworking of the last portion of my sermon from 12/10/23. The end of 1 Samuel 7 describes the great blessings that accrued to Israel because of Samuel’s ministry as priest, prophet, and judge. Samuel, like Moses, held a multiplicity of offices usually assigned to many men instead of one. It was obviously…
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An Advent Meditation from Isaiah 11
These are notes from a sermon by Rich Lusk, originally preached on December 12, 2004. G. K. Chesterton is one of my favorite authors. In his wildly funny and futuristic novel Napoleon of Notting Hill, he talks about a game the human race has been playing for a long, long time. It’s a game called “cheat…
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Romans 1:18-32: Reversing the Exchanges
In Romans 1:18-32, Paul identifies the pattern by which humanity (and particular civilizations within humanity) slide into apostasy and damnation. The sequence is ingratitude, leading to idolatry, leading to immorality. We refuse to thank and glorify the God who made us, turning to idols instead; the outworking of this idolatry is manifested in various forms…
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Sermon Follow Up (11/12/23)
Robert Rayburn’s sermon on 1 Samuel 6 captures the essence of the point I was driving at in my sermon on the same text, namely the demand that our faith in God must produce fear of God and obedience to God. Here some excerpts from his sermon (the last two paragraphs are especially important): “Behold the goodness…
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Sermon and Sunday School Follow Up (11/5/23)
These notes went out in last week’s updates email. The bulk of the message is follow up material on Sunday School (audio available soon) and the sermon from 1 Samuel 5 (audio available here). In Sunday School, we looked at various roles and titles ascribed to Mary in Scripture and in church history. We spent a…
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Sermon Follow Up: Living in an Enchanted Cosmos
“There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” I want to give a little follow up to my sermon from 7-30-23 entitled “The Christian Cosmos” on Ephesians 1:20-23. I preached other themes from this same passage on Ascension Day this year; last Sunday’s sermon was really intended to…
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John Frame on Scripture and Natural Revelation
God has given us Scripture, or “special revelation,” both to supplement natural revelation (by adding to it the message of salvation) and to correct our misuses of natural revelation. As Calvin said, the Christian should look at nature with the “spectacles of Scripture.” If even unfallen Adam needed to interpret the world according to God’s…
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