I was out at Lakewood Manor this afternoon, preaching a sermon called “Will We Meet on That Beautiful Shore?” It was a sermon inspired by a conversation I once had with a man who had been told that he wouldn’t know his deceased wife in heaven, and the “proof” he was given was a passage [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Marriage, Death, Resurrection, Reunion
Posted in Family, Sermons, tagged Bible, biblical, Bush, death, Family, heaven, Jesus, love, marriage, Moses, resurrection, reunion, Sadducees, values, weddings on January 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Warning: Not for the Faint of Heart
Posted in World, tagged babies, bodies, earthquake, haiti, heidi, limbs, medical, mission, nurses, pastor's daughter on January 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »
A friend forwarded this e-mail from a pastor’s daughter who is working in Haiti with a medical mission team from Missouri. Her description of what she has seen since her arrival is graphic; reader discretion is advised. But this first-person account brings home the reality of the Haitian earthquake in a way nothing else I [...]
Ripping Pages Right Out of the Bible
Posted in Church, tagged 1 Corinthians, Bible, conservative, controversy, glossolalia, liberal, North American Mission Board, pages, Paul, ripping, Scripture, Southern Baptist Convention, tongues on January 26, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Back in the days when the Southern Baptist Convention controversy was raging I was told that it was a “battle for the Bible.” There were rumors that “liberal” seminary professors were ripping pages right out of the Bible, and otherwise dismissing or ignoring the parts they didn’t care for. I was a student at the Southern [...]
How to Read the Bible
Posted in Church, tagged answers, Bible, Douglas Stuart, Gordon D. Fee, Holy Spirit, How to read the Bible, NRSV, questions, read, reading, scholar, TNIV, translation, understanding on January 25, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I don’t usually preach “how to” sermons, but I did on Sunday and several people have asked that I post my suggestions here. And so, with acknowledgments to Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart (whose book How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth is one of the most helpful in my personal library), [...]
