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Powerful! LA Senator Elbert Guillory speaks the truth.
This is powerful, both because it is true and because Guillory knows he is going to pay a price for saying it...
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Matthew Sermon 53 – Mat 16.21-17.13 – Jesus and the Meaning of ...
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Love: The Corinthians and Us
This is the third in a series on Christian love. You can read the previous post here: Love: The Point of 1...
Matthew Sermon 52 – Mat 16.13-19 – You Are Peter, and on this R...
Matthew Sermon 52 – Mat 16.13-19 – You Are Peter, and on this Rock Podcast: Play in new window |...
Matthew Sermon 51 – Mat 16.13-21 – Confessing the Faith
Matthew Sermon 51 – Mat16.13-21 – Confessing the Faith Podcast: Play in new window | Download...
Love: The Point of 1Corinthians.
This is the second in a series on Christian love. You can read the first post here: The Endless Quest for Love. Love...
What is the biblical purpose of the church?
I have been giving a fair amount of thought recently to the question of how to express in a single sentence the...
Modern America and Ancient Rome
Like ancient Rome, modern American is increasingly worshiping her own genius and preaching her own gospel. American is...
Recovering Christ’s Ascension
Thursday is Ascension Day, and Sunday is Ascension Sunday. Most evangelical churches will do little to commemorate...
Why shouldn’t gays have equal opportunity to enjoy marriage?
Because they won’t, even if they do. Marriage, you see, is binding oneself and giving oneself for life to someone...
Matthew Sermon 50 – Mat 16.1-12 – The Leaven of the Pharisees a...
Matthew Sermon 50 – Mat 16.1-12 – The Leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees Podcast: Play in new...
Matthew Sermon 49 – Mat 15.21-28 – Jesus, the Woman of Canaan, ...
Matthew Sermon 49 – Mat 15.21-28 – Jesus, the Woman of Canaan, and Great Faith Podcast: Play in...
The First Characteristic of Great Faith (Mat 15.21-38).
For the context and setup for this post, read Believe and Eat! Like the Centurion of Mat 8.5-13, the woman of Canaan...
Matthew Sermon 48 – Mat 15.21-39 – Jesus, Food for Israel, and ...
Matthew Sermon 48 – Mat 15.21-39 – Jesus, Food for Israel, and Food for the World Podcast: Play in...
“Trajectory: Easter Tunnel”
My daughter, Gwen, celebrates in this poem a wonderful but often unrecognized truth about Easter: resurrection is not...
Amazing! Your kids will love this!
The Mystery of Prince Rupert’s Drop Share and...
John Roberts, the Man Who Would Be Chief
Following Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (“Obama...
Highlights du jour – Mar 25
* Gay marriage takes center stage at the Supreme Court this week as two cases will be argued, one on Tuesday and the...
Matthew Sermon 47 – Mat 15.1-20 – Jesus, the Pharisees, and Def...
In Matthew 12, the Pharisees accused Jesus of allowing His disciples to break the Sabbath. And we saw that behind the...
Believe and eat! (Mat 15.21-39.)
The theme of faith and unbelief runs throughout this text, as does the theme of Jew and Gentile, and the theme of...
Jesus, the Pharisees, and Defilement (Mat 15.1-20)
The backdrop. The Messiah is portrayed in the Old Testament as a shepherd king who provides for God’s people,...
Matthew Sermon 46 – Mat14.1-36 – Jesus, the Church, and Stormy ...
Matthew will end his gospel with Jesus’ notice to the disciples that He has received all authority in heaven and on...
Matthew Sermon 45 – Mat 13.53-58 – Jesus and His Hometown
Jesus comes to His hometown, and in spite of His mighty works and great wisdom, His hometown folks are offended at Him...
The Endless Quest for Love
If there is anything the world is convinced of, it is that happiness depends on loving and being loved. If there is...
Leithart’s thoughts after the Wilson-Sullivan gay marriage debate.
“Perhaps Christians are called to do no more than speak the truth without worrying about persuasiveness. Perhaps...
What is a parable? And why did Jesus use them?
To moderns, a parable is a helpful, illustrative story, but that is not what it is in the Bible. Hebrew parables...
Matthew Sermon 44 – Mat 13.44-52 – Jesus and the Treasure of th...
Matthew Sermon 44 – Mat 13.44-52 – Jesus and the Treasure of the Kingdom Podcast: Play in new...
Who is the Son of Man?
People called Jesus many things – Rabbi, prophet, Christ, Lamb of God, Son of God, Satan, sinner, deceiver,...
Sequester-geddon?
To hear the Obama administration, the Sequester budget cuts will be economic Armageddon, crippling first responders,...
Jesus’ Public Ministry Begins (Mat 4.12-25)
Matthew Sermon 9 – Mat 4.12-25 – Jesus’ Public Ministry Begins Podcast: Play in new window ...
More golf for the President (and Congress)!
The press is in a tizzy about President Obama’s private (as in press free) golf outing with Tiger Woods Saturday at...
How do you like living under a different lord?
Christians in America long ago restricted the lordship of Christ to a shrunken area called “spiritual...
Jesus and the Future of the Kingdom 2 (Mat 13.24-43)
Matthew Sermon 43 – Jesus and the Future of the Kingdom 2 (Mat 13.24-43) Podcast: Play in new window |...
The Temptation of the Son of God (Mat 4.1-11)
Matthew Sermon 8 – The Temptation of the Son of God (Mat 4.1-11) Podcast: Play in new window | Download...
Who is the true family of God? (Mat 12.46-50)
One of the burning questions of Scripture is, who is the true family of God? “That’s easy,” you think, “its...
Jesus and the Future of the Kingdom 1 (Mat 13.24-43)
Matthew Sermon 42 – Jesus and the Future of the Kingdom (Mat 13.24-43) Podcast: Play in new window |...
Your “house” wasn’t meant to be a single occupant dwellin...
Earlier in Matthew 12, Jesus enraged the Pharisees by comparing them to Doeg the Edomite, who accused David to Saul...
Jesus and the Preaching of the Kingdom (Mat 13.1-23)
Matthew Sermon 41 – Mat 13.1-23 – Jesus and the Preaching of the Kingdom Podcast: Play in new...
The Constitution, Dead or Alive?
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia caused a commotion recently when he said he tells visiting school children that...
Richard III and The Daughter of Time
Today’s headlines trumpeting the remarkable discovery of Richard III’s remains gives me an excuse to...
Jesus and the Family of God (Mat 12.38-50)
Matthew Sermon 40 – Jesus and the Family of God (Mat 12.38-50) Podcast: Play in new window | Download...
The Baptism of Jesus (Mat 3.13-17).
Matthew Sermon 7 – The Baptism of Jesus (Mat 3.13-17) Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration:...
The Imbedded Creational Link Between Spirituality and Sexuality
Have you noticed how the culture war flash points are all sexual? Abortion, gay marriage, gender interchangeability,...
Eyes to see and ears to hear.
Jesus used this terminology often. (Mat 11.15; 13.9, 43; Mark 4.9, 23; 7.16; Luke 8.8; 14.35.) When he did so, he...
John the Baptist (Mat 3.1-12)
Matthew Sermon 6 – John the Baptist (Mat 3.1-12) Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration:...
Fervency!
“Remember, it is the remark of old and experienced men, that very few men, and very few ministers, keep up to...
Jesus Is True Israel (Mat 2.13-23)
Matthew Sermon 5 – Jesus Is True Israel (Mat 2.13-23) Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration:...
Men and Women, Shovels and Spoons
Shovels and spoons look similar and can do a lot of the same things. Most shovels are bigger and stronger than most...
A conversation about truth . . .
“. . . look, save your religion. I believe in facts, not fairy tales.” “Glad to hear it. Where...
Servant, Savior, Strongman, Son (Mat 12.15-37)
Matthew Sermon 39 – Servant, Savior, Strongman, Son (Mat 12.15-37) Podcast: Play in new window |...
What is Roe v. Wade?
On the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, most young people think it is a discussion of the merits of traversing water...
Jesus and the New Temple (Mat 2.1-12)
Matthew Sermon 4 – Jesus and the New Temple (Mat 2.1-12) Podcast: Play in new window | Download...
The Son of David and the sons of Doeg.
In Matthew 12, Jesus shows that he is not only the greater Moses, he is also the greater David. All of this is...
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