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The Lord’s Supper, Food, Nourishment, Grace, and Symbolism
There is a tendency in modern Christianity to think of the sacraments (baptism and the Lord’s Supper) as purely symbolic acts. I believe this tendency is largely due to an overreaction to the Catholic position of transubstantiation and baptismal regeneration. … Continue reading
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Tagged Baptism, Church, Faith, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Obedience, Responsibility, Salvation, The Lords Supper, Theology, Virtue
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Gossip and the Supper
Several Sunday’s ago our church heard the annual gossip sermon. This is the sermon where the preacher outlined in detail the sins of each particular family as they had been related to the elders during the course of the year, … Continue reading
Tagged Church, Jesus Christ, Language, Sacraments, Sin, The Lords Supper
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The Reality of Spiritual Symbols
In my last post, I discussed the nature of the sacraments and how referring to them as “mere” symbols is insufficient and in many ways misleading about other manifestations of God’s grace. Today, I want to go a little further … Continue reading
Tagged Baptism, Church, Love, Obedience, Responsibility, The Lords Supper
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Meet Paul Washer
This three minute long video is series of edited excerpts from a sermon delivered by Paul Washer to 5,000 Southern Baptist teenagers. It is quite simply phenomenal. [Note: the editing and the addition of music and video was not done … Continue reading
Tagged Church, Evangelism, Faith, Salvation, Theology, Video
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The Disconnect
Subtitled: Moral Immorality, the Music and Movie Industry, Disney’s Double Standard, and the Duke Lacrosse Team and Honest Strippers I’ve been meaning to post something along these lines for some time, but for a million insignificant reasons, I haven’t. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Church, Movies, Music, Obedience, Pop Culture, Responsibility, Sin, Theology
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For the Love of God
I was reading John B’s most recent Blog Meridian post when I came across this description of a Wichita bookstore that he frequents: There’s no coffee bar there, no fancy tilted shelving displaying the stock, no subdued, recessed lighting. You … Continue reading
Tagged Church, God, Life in general, Mega Churches, Postmodernism
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Sermon Prep on Assurance of Salvation, Faith, Works, and I John 3
Tomorrow night, I’m preaching at my church and my central text is I John, chapter 3. It’s an interesting passage and the core idea that I’ve taken away from it is that while salvation is of grace through faith, our … Continue reading
Tagged Church, Faith, God, Grace, Obedience, Responsibility, Salvation, Scripture
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Analogous Grace: Why God chooses to bless certain things
In my last article on grace, I wrote about Prescriptive Grace and the way that grace is always applied specifically according to God’s desires. In this post, I want to talk about grace in a slightly different way, but first … Continue reading
Soulwinning, Methodology, and Going in unto Hagar
Abraham had a problem. God had made a promise to him, and to the best of Abraham’s understanding, God had not delivered. Plus, the way things looked, God was not planning on delivering any time soon. And it was starting … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Church, Evangelism, Faith, God, History, Holy Scripture, Jehovah, Obedience, Responsibility, Salvation, Scripture, Sin, Theology, Witnessing
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Are You a Man of Athens?
Read this and then anwer: (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) (Acts 17:21) Sounds like the blogosphere. Sounds like youth culture. … Continue reading
Tagged Church, God, History, News, Postmodernism
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