The church I have the privilege of pastoring has pastors/deacons/deaconesses and trustees. Our deacons function in many regards like biblical elders but that sermon is for another Sunday. New Testament church polity is really not that confusing. The apostles appointed a plurality of godly men to help govern, lead, and shepherd the early church. Those men (elders) [...]
Archive for November, 2010
23 Nov
Chock-Full-O-Christology
“What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before? (John 6:62)
19 Nov
Augustine and the purpose of preaching
Having established that the purpose of preaching is to strengthen the bond of love between God and his people as well as the bond of love between Christians, Augustine moves on to speak of how the preacher is to go about the interpretation of Scripture, for the work of the preacher consists of two parts: [...]
12 Nov
It’s just gas
Doug Wilson tells a funny one: One time G.K. Chesterton, the rolypologist, was patted on the stomach by his adversary, George Bernard Shaw, a beanpole of an infidel, and was asked what they were going to name the baby. Chesterton replied immediately that if it was a boy, John, if a girl, then Mary. But [...]
5 Nov
Egomaniac Theological Society
In his interesting little book The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis has his narrator meet a respectable academic theologian who is on his way to present a paper at the local Theological Society. In a somewhat humorous way, Lewis has the man just gushing, wanting to tell everyone what his research paper is about. By [...]
4 Nov
Shake the tree
Luther said, “Divine Scripture is a very fertile tree, and there is no branch which I have not shaken with my own hands, and knocked down a few apples” (Table Talks, no. 5355).
2 Nov
The flow of the Olivet Discourse in Matt 24-25
I have been preaching through Matthew’s gospel account for the last few years and recently completed the section commonly known as “The Olivet Discourse” (Matthew 24-25). The following is an expositional outline based on my own understanding of the text. Some of the phraseology is new and some is borrowed. The intent of this outline [...]
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