Wayne Grudem: In cases where the ordinary human personality and writing style of the author were prominently involved, as seems the case with the major part of Scripture, all that we are able to say is that God’s providential oversight and direction of the life of each author was such that their personalities, their [...]
Archive for May, 2008
27 May
Dual Authorship in Matthew 1:22 and 2:15
Although God is ultimately the source of Scripture (2 Tim 3:16), He chose to use human authors as the instruments through which He set forth His written revelation. In using these men to record His Word, God did not suppress the individual personalities or writing styles of the human writers, but rather He used them [...]
23 May
Question about Teaching Children NT Greek
I just completed my first year of teaching NT Greek to two of my children, along with four children from another family. For curriculum this year, I used Elementary Greek: Koine for Beginners, Year One, but I wasn’t satisfied with it for a number of reasons (not the least of which was the slowness of [...]
20 May
How Can We Trust the NT if We Don’t Have the Original Manuscripts?
One afternoon several years ago, I met a man in a city park who identified himself as a pantheist. As I shared the Gospel with him, he began to raise a series of objections, the first of which dealt with the reliability of the Scriptures. “The Bible was going along fine,” he explained, “until King [...]
20 May
MLJ on Preaching
“While men believed in the Scriptures as the authoritative Word of God and spoke on the basis of that authority you had great preaching. But once that went, and men began to speculate and to theorise, and to put up hypotheses and so on, the eloquence and the greatness of the spoken word inevitably declined [...]
18 May
The church God loves to bless (pt 8)
We come now to an 8th and final mark; God blesses churches that (#8) embrace there God-ordained role in this world. I’m thinking of one role in particular here…An essential aspect of any true church is described in 1 Timothy 3:15; But in case I am delayed, I write so that you may know [...]
17 May
The church God loves to bless (pt 7)
God blesses churches that are (#7) devoted to the one another’s. The church needs to be united before it will ever be greatly used by God. Community and teamwork are popular expressions but not common commitments in many churches these days. 1 Peter 1:22 says, Having purified your souls by your obedience to the [...]
15 May
Lloyd-Jones on Preaching
I am one chapter away from finishing up Lloyd-Jones’ classic work “Preaching & Preachers.” Lloyd-Jones died in 1981 so obviously I only know him through his books and biographies. Though different in many ways, I see many similarities between MLJ and my former pastor John MacArthur. Both men are/were very comfortable sharing their convictions and [...]
15 May
The Church God blesses (pt 6)
Why type of external things do people typically point to when determining whether or not a church is successful and blessed of God? They often point to a churches’ facilities or the lack their of. They point to all the programs a church puts on throughout the year. They point to the size of the congregation [...]
14 May
The Peril of Systematic Expository Preaching on Special Occasions
About once a year I encounter a preaching dilemma related to a special day on the American calendar and the text that comes next in our sermon series. Last Sunday was just such an example. We’re in the book of Nehemiah and last Sunday was chapter three. I struggle to imagine a more challenging text [...]
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