My friend Dan Tsouloufis recently wrote a short essay explaining the Reformed (Calvinistic) understanding of salvation and election. It’s really helpful, biblical, and balanced. Definitely worth the ten minutes or…
Author: <span>Tom Schmidt</span>
What my idle, indecisive heart needs to see: O Courageous Christ, By the power of the Spirit, You perfectly loved the Father. Never paralyzed with fear, Never frozen with indecision,…
Oh Idle Indecision, You cover me like a blanket, Warming me with your whispers of security: ‘Give it some more time.’ ‘Better off really thinking if over.’ ‘No harm in…
Please keep me in prayer, I’ll be guest preaching again this Sunday at church in Zion, IL: http://www.meadowridge.org/ Preaching on 2 Sam 11 (David and Bathseba). Pray that I am…
Andrew Wilson has some helpful words on the distinction between preaching and teaching: http://thinktheology.co.uk/blog/article/whats_the_difference_between_preaching_and_teaching
This past Sunday I had the opportunity to preach on Isaiah 59, and I used sentence diagramming to help me understand the text. Diagramming a passage is when you lay…
23 Truths For The Redeemed In Christ To redeem a thing is to take something that is broken/corrupt/enslaved and to deliver it, making it complete/cleansed/liberated. The Bible teaches us that…
The Gospel According to Gordon Ramsay Stories of redemption and redeemers abound in our culture. We love seeing something that is broken/defiled/enslaved/ruined/destroyed come out fixed/purified/liberated/cleansed/saved. It makes our hearts happy.…
I request your prayers as I fill in for a church in northern Illinois and preach the sermon. My text is Isaiah 59
(This is a continuation from my previous post) Here’s eight more valuable insights from John Angell James: Preaching is more than exegesis: “We must therefore rise from exegesis into exhortation,…