The sermon text for this Lord’s Day brings Luke’s account of the ministry of John the Baptist to an abrupt end. John preached the truth and it offended the petty, immoral ruler, Herod Antipas. Herod rejected John’s message and imprisoned him. The other gospel accounts tell the story of the John’s subsequent execution. John was…
This Lord’s Day we will focus on 2 Corinthians 10:1-6. This passage begins Paul’s renewed defense in which he takes aim at his opponents in Corinth who were trying to undermine his authority and his message in the church. His defense will occupy the rest of the letter. In it, Paul encourages the Corinthians to…
The Apostle Paul has given the contrast between life in the flesh and life in the Spirit. Then he comes to 5:24-25 that give a conclusion to his argument. The first part of his argument was that the Spirit and the flesh are at battle and they produce very different things. Verse 24 argues that…
The age of celebrity: Truth takes a backseat to results. The church grotesquely mutates from a serving community into a gathering of spectators. And even for those churches unwilling to follow the showmen and turn a blind eye to the heretical, there is still a price to be paid in all of this.
