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Recently Rod Whitacre died of lymphoma. I had known him for many years as a student at Gordon College when I was Dean of Christian Life and as a theologian after he earned his doctorate at Cambridge University. He taught at Trinity School for ministry, where I was on...
WHY I BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST
It would take a whole book to give you the reasons why I believe in Jesus Christ and follow him as my Savior and Lord. Those reasons have been accumulating over a lifetime. Some of them have been discarded or changed as I have grown older. Others are newer as I have...
JOHN STOTT’S TEACHING ON GOD AS HOLY TRINITY
John Stott cites scriptural authority for the Trinity in the baptism of Jesus and the Great Commission (Matt.3:17; 28:19). Also 1 Pet.1:2; 2 Cor.13:14. He lists three approaches to the truth of the Trinity. First, there is the approach of history. It was a gradual...
THE FIRE OF THE SPIRIT
Jesus told the disciples, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. and you will be my witnesses….to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8). At Pentecost it happened! “They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of...
ASCENSION
The Ascension of Jesus is celebrated on the 40th day after Easter Sunday (Acts 1:4). This year it falls on May 18. Because it is always a Thursday it tends to be overlooked and neglected. Yet the Ascension of Jesus is the culmination of his earthly life. It confirms...
MY EASTER TESTIMONY
When I was eleven years old my grandmother died suddenly at the age of fifty nine. Her death was shock to me. I could not understand how a person so vibrant and alive one moment could be gone the next. I can remember seeing her laid out in her coffin in her bedroom...
JESUS DESCENDED TO THE DEAD
In the Apostles’ Creed we affirm that Jesus descended to the dead after his crucifixion. This affirmation in the Creed directs our attention to the period between the death of Jesus and his resurrection. What did he do, and where was he, in the days between noon on...
THE FOOLISHNESS OF THE CROSS
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” (1 Cor 1:18) What is the message of the cross? Why is it foolishness to those who are perishing? Why is it the power of God to those who are...
THE LORD’S SUPPER OR HOLY COMMUNION
Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday is when we commemorate the Last Supper when Jesus ate the Passover with his disciples and instituted for us the remembrance of his coming crucifixion for our salvation. It is good for us to reflect upon the importance and significance...
ROMANS 14-16
LESSON 10 ROMANS 14:1-15:13 Our relationship to the weak: welcoming and not despising, judging or offending them 14:1-15:13 The positive principle (1). The negative consequences (14:2-15:13). It is particularly impressive to see how the apostle buttresses his ethical...
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