Category: Bible
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Jesus vs. the Family
I got a good question today about Mark 10:29:31. How do we make sense of Jesus’ words about leaving family members when Scripture puts a emphasis on our duties to other members of our household? This is how I responded: I think Jesus is addressing situations where one who would have to choose between Jesus…
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“Reworking the Covenant of Works” (2003)
From the Archives: The “Federal Vision” was several controversies ago in the Reformed world, and no one is using that label anymore as far as I can tell. Nevertheless, I think essay includes some important insights and so I want to make it available on my blog. This essay has been available on the web…
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Maundy Thursday Leftovers: The Footwashing God
Here some belated notes to go with this year’s Maundy Thursday sermon: Here is a note from our bulletin that explains the service: Maundy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus in the upper room with His disciples just before he was betrayed. On this special night, we remember how Jesus transformed the Passover meal into…
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Palm Sunday Exhortation: Humility and Glory
Palm Sunday perfectly captures the paradoxes of the gospel. It juxtaposes glory and humility. In the eyes of the world, if you are glorious you are not humble and if you are humble you are not glorious. But the gospel brings together glory and humility, and on Palm Sunday, glorious humility and humble glory were…
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A Future and Final Coming (An Email to a Hyperpreterist from 2007)
And he shall come again, with glory, to judge the the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end…. and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Nicene Creed —– With the scourge of hyperpreterism making a reappearance recently, I dredged up an old…
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Psalm 19 and Divine Revelation (Sermon Follow Up, Part 2)
I want to provide a little more follow up to my two recent sermons on Psalm 19. As I pointed out, some view the psalm as having two parts: verses 1-6 on creational revelation, and verses 7-14 on biblical revelation. Others view it as having three sections; the third section is found in verses 12-14,…
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Psalm 19 and Lent (Sermon Follow Up, Part 1)
I recently preched two sermons on Psalm 19 (available here and here). In this blog post, I want to follow up on the second sermon, with a point that seems especially appropriate for Lent. In the closing verses of the psalm, David turns from examining the heavens and the Scriptures to look at his own heart. He realizes…
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Zephaniah’s Christian Nationalism (Sermon Follow-up)
This is a follow up to my January 1, 2023 sermon. My opening comments on the passage are not on the audio here (thought you can get them on the YouTube stream of the service here), so I will reproduce those comments here, along with a few other notes. Today’s sermon builds off of last week’s sermon, though…
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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…
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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…
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