Let me explain my sermon title (since I don’t really have time to unpack it in the sermon itself). What do I mean when I speak of The Ministers of the Church as the Son’s Gift and the Spirit’s Servants for the Realization of Jeremiah’s New Covenant Prophecy in the Life of the Congregation? Five passages exemplify my points. Ephesians 4:11-13 shows us that the ministers of the church are the Son’s gift, and these ministers especially teach, so that and until we attain to the knowledge of the Son of God. So these teachers are working…Explaining my #T4G20 Sermon Title
Let me explain my sermon title (since I don’t really have time to unpack it in the sermon itself). What do I mean when I speak of The Ministers of the Church as the Son’s Gift and the Spirit’s Servants for the Realization of Jeremiah’s New Covenant Prophecy in the Life of the Congregation? Five passages exemplify my points. Ephesians 4:11-13 shows us that the ministers of the church are the Son’s gift, and these ministers especially teach, so that and until we attain to the knowledge of the Son of God. So these teachers are working…
1. God, our maker * [Obligation] Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Acts 17:24-28 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. 26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their…
We are continuing to work through some psalms/hymns to listen to/sing at home in this strange season when so many of us in so many nations are social distancing, sheltering in home, facing work and school disruptions and abatement. I wrote a little article that lists around a hundred great psalms and hymns, ancient and modern. Today, I want to recommend All Creatures of Our God and King. It is a hymn translated by an Anglican rector, W. H. Draper in the early twentieth century that became very popular in hymnals in the second half of the…
Some folks have ask for some psalms/hymns to listen to/sing at home in this strange season when so many of us in so many nations are social distancing, sheltering in home, facing work and school disruptions and abatement. I wrote a little article…
6.1 Even the first and original human sin has a purpose for God’s Glory.6.2 Because of this sin Adam and Eve lost their original righteousness and communion with God, became dead in sin, and wholly defiled in every part of soul and body.6.3 Because…
5.1 God rules over absolutely everything and everyone, for his own glory.5.2 God’s sovereignty does not contradict but rather complements human responsibility.5.3 God ordinarily uses means to accomplish his ends, but sometimes without, above or…
4.1 The Triune God for the display of his glory created the entire world, ex nihilo, in six days, and all good. 4.2 God created human beings, male and female, in his image, with his law on their hearts, in happy communion with him, and with…
3.1 God ordains everything that happens, but isn’t responsible for sin, and people are not puppets, and what they do matters. 3.2 God knows the future exhaustively and unconditionally, but his decree is not based on his foresight. 3.3 God…
About God, and The Trinity 2.1 There is only one, living and true God, infinite in being and perfection, who is most pure Spirit, invisible and without the limitations of human body, parts or passions, who is immutable, immense, eternal,…