I received this email tonight, and thought that it was too excellent to not respond to and then repost here. Hope it's helpful: 1. It is true that some people, through winsomeness and tactics, are more effective at evangelism than others.2. It [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
INTROAll four of these passages (Genesis 6:17-22, 8:20-22, 9:1-7, 9:8-17 ) that we are going to be picking through today make of the Noahic covenant. The first passage referring to pre-flood, and then the last three referring to post. Now [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit o [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
The fact that God created man in his own image means something. To be an image-bearer means that we have, by definition, certain responsibilities to fulfill to our creator. God designed us with a plan in mind, and our responsibility is to carry out... [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Last session we saw how “God’s multiple bonds with His people ultimately unite into a single relationship.”That was the big idea last week. In that statement we see the seeds of diversity. God did have multiple bonds, and in Christ they are un [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
The unity of Scripture is one of the hardest things for us modern evangelicals to see. We see this division of Old and New Testament in our Bibles and assume that God had two different peoples and two different plans. We see multiple covenants [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
If you were to take your concordance or any Bible software and look up the word covenant, you would find the first appearance of the word in Genesis 6. This is the account of Noah and the flood. While giving instructions on how to build the ar [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Covenants means very little if anything in our contemporary culture. The word is used rarely, and when used generally the meaning has been completely stripped away. In God’s court, which is the entire created universe, the meaning remains unal [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Just finished Francis Chan's Erasing Hell. I was excited for it's release, although I now have some mixed feelings about it. In interviews since its publication, Chan has said that he wanted this book to be able to stand alone ten years from [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]