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We conclude our discussion of the Creation of man with a brief review of the characteristics of creation, the pattern for man's creation and close with a look at the transmission of man's being from generation to generation. Read the notes while you listen. … [Read more...] about The Creation of Man (3) [Basic Theology]

Is God right to forgive sins? We look to the public propitiation-in-his-blood on the cross of Calvary and find that it justifies God in two ways. First, it makes God's long forbearance over sin righteous, because it is clear that God judges sin - he has done so in his Son and will do so one day against all who are not in his Son. Second, it makes God's justification of sinners … [Read more...] about The Righteousness of God in Forgiving Your Sins [Romans]

Mother's Day - Eph 6.4 Our second message of the day on the theme of the Christian Home completes our exposition of Eph 6.4. This is essentially the same message as I preached at the NW Regional FBF conference. The theme of the message is to show that the antidote to provoking children to wrath is disciplined admonition. Disicplined Admonition is establishing a disciplined … [Read more...] about Disciplined Admonition

Mother's Day - Bible Study The Bible Study time involved a look at the foundational revelation from Genesis 1 and 2 on the Christian home and then tracing through some of the big implications of that revelation as it shows up in the New Testament regarding the idea of the Christian home. God's intention in the Christian home is to reproduce what God intended at the initial … [Read more...] about The Big Idea of the Christian Home

Mother's Day - Eph 6.4 For mother's day, we decided to make the day an emphasis on the Christian Home. I recently preached on the subject of child training at the recent NW Regional FBF conference, so thought to combine that message with two others on the same subject for an all day emphasis. The first message concentrated on the first half of Eph 6.4, 'do not provoke … [Read more...] about Not Provoking – the challenge of Christian parenting