Preaching & Proclamation Archives

A short introduction to the second chapter of Acts

The meaning of scripture, in this way, is the gift of God to the questions that he, himself, excites in man. This is illustrated on Pentecost day, in the litany of strange phenomena that overtakes the crowd that is gathered in Jerusalem.

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Ascribed & Prescribed (Notes on Ideas)

The Stump Speech Becomes Secularism’s Sermon

Flattery, politics, & the search for power

And yet, there is cause to think that this unbelief has become the very ground of a new positive consensus. It entails the unavoidably moral and religious inclinations that have always belonged to man, but attaches to them the kind of political and sociological expressions that Bottum describes in his book.

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Essays & Assorted Articles

Syrian Religion in Ancient China

Syncretism & religious aspiration

The human mind is such that it needs and seeks forms for its heartfelt expressions; even so, the human heart is such that it will too easily justify false forms for their purported service to truth.

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Notes on Scripture

- Galatians
- Galatians 5:1

Mood, Medium, & Message

The character of the biblical revelation informs the content of the sermon

Paul first makes his readers to understand the facts upon which their faith depends, for faith must understand the works of God before it gives answer to the will of God.

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Commentary & Exposition

- Acts of the Apostles
- Acts 26:1-18

The Gospel & Corresponding Christian Witness

The facts of the gospel shape an ironic ministry

The Apostolic witness regarded the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. When the fact of the resurrection was combined with the records of Jesus’ life and death, these together became the essential characteristics of a different kind of news, even a new kind of news—the gospel.

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