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  • Apologetics: Conclusion

    Apologetics: Conclusion

    The conclusion to our current apologetics series–The 10 Commandments of Dialogue. How we dialogue with those who disagree with us is more important than winning an argument. At the end, we consider the basic proposition of the new racial justice movement (Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality) to see how we should engage the movement with…

  • How To Get Health And Wealth From God

    How To Get Health And Wealth From God

    Jesus did many miracles. We have seen His miracles throughout Matthew’s Gospel. Jesus did miracles in order to show that He was the Messiah prophesied about in the Old Testament (Cf. 8:17). Once again, the text leads us to consider Jesus’s miracles of healing and provision. As we consider miracles again, I want to ask—How…

  • The Safest Place to Be

    The Safest Place to Be

    Physical safety is something we worry about on this earth and in this life. Why? Because we are mere mortals. In AD 165, smallpox ravaged the Roman Empire (Antonine Plague) and did so for the succeeding fifteen years, killing one-third of the population. It was followed by another epidemic that was just as deadly in…

  • Proclaim 2019- Session 2- Teaching

    Proclaim 2019- Session 2- Teaching

    One of the easiest things for teachers to do is rush to prepare. We can easily fail to put the time needed into knowing before teaching. The result is that we misrepresent God’s word. God’s word is far too important to present flippantly. Preparation is the difficult and time consuming part of this process. Today,…

  • Proclaim 2019- Session 1- Evangelism

    Proclaim 2019- Session 1- Evangelism

    I think that evangelism is one of those things that well-meaning churchy people make way more complicated that it needs to be. Evangelism simply means intentionally sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ with as many people as possible. We are the ones who add to this great commission all sorts of burdens and requirements that…

  • Public Prayer in The Church Service

    Public Prayer in The Church Service

    God’s house is to be a house of prayer (Matthew 21:13). So, in church services we try to follow that instruction by having intermittent prayer around preaching and singing and by having entire gathering times dedicated to only prayer. What place does prayer actually have in the gathering? This will be an important topic for…

  • How Should We Practice The Lord’s Supper?

    How Should We Practice The Lord’s Supper?

    The Lord’s Supper, or the Eucharist, is a regular part of Christian worship. As a reminder of my goal in this leadership series, I am not considering all of the theological implications of the practice. Concerning the Lord’s Supper, I am making these presuppositions: The proper view of the Lord’s Supper is at least memorial…

  • Church Planting: Creation, The Great Commission, and The Resolution

    Church Planting: Creation, The Great Commission, and The Resolution

    As we saw when we considered God’s eternal mission, God’s purpose is His own glory in His creation through the exaltation of Christ and in the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. We will always have the mandate to multiply in creation and steward creation according to the first and second chapters in Genesis. God…

  • Church Planting: a temporal picture of God’s eternal mission, pt. 3

    Church Planting: a temporal picture of God’s eternal mission, pt. 3

    Read Acts 13:2-52 The local congregation was dedicated to fasting and ministering to the Lord. This was a regular part of their worship. The Holy Spirit directed, not only the elders but the whole of the congregation, to set apart Barnabas and Saul do the work they were called to (planting churches just as the…

  • Church Planting: a temporal picture of God’s eternal mission, pt. 2

    Church Planting: a temporal picture of God’s eternal mission, pt. 2

    Read Acts 13:1 Barnabas and Saul did not spend all of their time at the church in Antioch, what had now become their home church. They were called specifically to missions work and were doing that work under the commission of the church in Antioch. When they returned from a trip on which they were…