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Sermon Transcript: September 24, 2017 Reformation 500 Series — The Absolute Sovereignty of God (Romans 9:1-33)
An AI-produced transcript of my 9/24/17 sermon: 500 years ago, this October, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. And so this is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation this year. It’s an event in history truly worth celebrating. Martin Luther, John Calvin, Martin Bucer,…
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March ’26 X Posts: Liberalism, Empathy, War with Iran, Parenting, Marriage, Politics, Israel, Foreign Policy, Etc.
If you really care for the poor and marginalized — let me rephrase that — if you really empathize with the poor and marginalized — in America, you will be in favor of closed borders and deportations because unlimited immigration hurts poor Americans the most. — About a year ago, I was on the Lancaster…
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Antinomianism and Legalism
This is an old Reformation Day X post: A post for Reformation Day: We often think there are two ways to get the gospel wrong: there are legalists who try to earn God’s favor, and antinomians who presume on God’s favor. Legalists try too hard, antinomians are too lax. Legalists are slaves to the law,…
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Liberalism vs Your Belly Button
The best argument against modern liberalism? Your belly button. Why? You belly button is a reminder that you began life connected to others. You are not a sovereign, autonomous, detached individual. Your very existence came in and through community. To be is to be related. You are not a free floating atom. You are a…
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Jesus the Carpenter
“Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary?” (Mark 6:3) It makes sense Jesus was a carpenter (or construction worker or craftsman) before beginning his public ministry. As the eternal Word, Jesus is the one through whom the world was made as a house for God. As the incarnate Word, he made houses for…
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Dispensationalism, Christendom, and Israel
[The following post is not intended as commentary on the current military operation in Iran. I will comment on that later. This is a theological point I’ve been thinking about for a while.] One of the things that I believe attracts modern Dispensationalists/evangelicals to the nation-state of Israel is not just their (flawed) exegesis and…
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Some Favorite “Got a Minute?” Podcasts w/Larson Hicks
The first podcast we did on wisdom from Proverbs and Ecclesiastes: On Jordan Petersen and masculinity: On servant leadership: Sphere sovereignty and the idolatry of the family: Empathy: What does baptism accomplish? Why we need more Christian billionaires: Christian nationalism: Natural law, sex, and aesthetics: It’s all in Genesis 3: Does church membership matter: FLGBTQ+:…
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2019 Marriage Seminar
Back in 2019, we did a marriage seminar at TPC. I gave two talks at the seminar and the sermon on Sunday wrapped it up. I might say a few things differently today, but many people found content in these talks helpful — and occasionally controversial! 2. The Dance of Headship and Submission 3. The…
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Some Random Notes on Romans 11, Modern Israel, and the Land of Canaan
“The Church is Israel. This does not mean that the Church replaced Israel, nor does it mean that a natural Jew cannot be grafted back into the true Israel. They can, but only by bending a knee to the Lordship of Jesus Christ. God established Abraham and promised to bless his seed and all those…
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Psalm 128 Sermon: The God-Fearing Man’s Family
I’ve preached on Psalm 128 many times. It’s one of my favorites. Here’s a sermon preached at Christ the King Church in Greenville, SC on March 13, 2022.
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