I am preaching this Sunday (over ZOOM) on Daniel 12:5-13. This is our final sermon in the book of Daniel. The title at this moment is “Working While We Wait.” Here’s some thoughts from it: Working While We Wait. Daniel 12:5-13 is the close of the book of Daniel. Throughout the book, we have been […]
Daniel 11:2-12:4 “God is Still in Control” (to listen to the audio of this sermon, go to this page and look under Daniel sermons). This was preached on March 22, 2020 in Naperville IL at Cross of Christ Fellowship. INTRO: In his fine commentary on the book of Daniel, Tremper Longman summarizes the theme of […]
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Corona Virus Sermon
Spiritual Warfare (Daniel 10) God’s Word is always timely and relevant. As I worked on today’s sermon I wondered if I should change texts and try to directly address what is happening with the Corona Virus. But as I worked through the passage, I came to see just how relevant Daniel 10 is to us […]
One the most challenges apocalyptic passages from the Book of Daniel is Daniel 9:24-27. Here we have God’s vision to Daniel about a “70 week” period wherein particular events will take place. Commentators disagree how to best understand various elements of this passage—you can find my sermon outline here. But the difficulties of the passage […]
Here’s my outline for a sermon I preached on Daniel 9:20-27 (mostly 9:24-27), which I preached at Cross of Christ Fellowship, our church in Naperville. It was a very tough text to preach, but full of wonderful insights and pronouncements of God’s mercy and grace.( If you want to hear it, you can find it […]
How do you view the question of ultimate authority? And what are the implications concerning other questions of reality? An ultimate authority is an authority that transcends all other authorities and is understood to have legitimate—not arbitrary—rights to govern and rule. As a Christian, I would argue that God is the ultimate authority of all […]
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Daniel 8 Sermon Outline
Here’s my notes for a sermon on Daniel 8. Audio can be found here. Daniel 8: Hope in the Pain and Perplexities of Life Intro: Being a Christian will NOT exempt you from suffering and pain. Christians experience all kinds of pain: pain of persecution for believing in Jesus, pain of being excluded or mocked […]
Clinging to God in the Midst of Pain and Perplexity Daniel 8 is an apocalyptic vision of future events. The vision tells us of the rise of Persia followed by the rise of Greece and a future king that comes from Greece who causes great suffering for the people of God. This king—whom most commentators […]
Here’s the February newsletter for Cross of Christ Fellowship, our church in Naperville: https://mailchi.mp/6af7d45c8d59/cross-of-christ-fellowship-february-newsletter
A Glorious Hope (This post is a continuation of a previous post on Daniel 7, found here.) Along with the troubling fact there is also a glorious hope given to us in Daniel 7. The beastly nations and our own beastly nature do not have the final word. God, who is eternal and majestic and […]
