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Loving Your Wife Like Christ Loves

October 4, 2020 / Filed Under: Sermon Notes

Loving Your Wife Like Christ Loves

At a recent men’s meeting, I shared the following devotion. I share a brief outline from it with you in hopes that all husbands everywhere might be stirred up to, or renewed in, their determination to love their wives with Christ-reflecting purity and power. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

Four Ways Self-Pity Distorts Your Perception of Reality

September 26, 2020 / Filed Under: Sermon Notes

Four Ways Self-Pity Distorts Your Perception of Reality

Along with so many other “small” sins in our lives, self-pity is actually very dangerous and self-destructive. The good news, however, is that the Bible gives us some very insightful help regarding this age-old sin. Some time ago I preached a message on self-pity, as part of a series “Beware of Small Sins.” Let me share a brief outline of it with you. Here are four ways that self-pity distorts your perception of reality, with some biblical solutions.

We Will Be Changed In a Moment, After a Lifetime of Struggle

August 7, 2020 / Filed Under: Sermon Notes

We Will Be Changed In a Moment, After a Lifetime of Struggle

Not long ago I lead a study on the doctrine of “Glorification” in a systematic theology series for the Baptist Collegiate Ministry at the University of Cincinnati. I was greatly blessed in considering the eventual, promised perfection of the people of God. Yet I was also impressed all over again with the fact that every aspect of our salvation — including even our glorification — is not ultimately about us, but about God.

Entrusted With the Glorious Gospel

January 26, 2020 / Filed Under: Messages, Sermon Notes

Entrusted With the Glorious Gospel

The church of Jesus Christ has been entrusted with the gospel of Christ. This is both a sobering responsibility and a beautiful privilege. It is not enough to identify and reject false teaching in the church. We have to embrace and foster affection for what is good and glorious and godly. This is how Paul addresses the issue of false teaching in his letter to Timothy.

Timothy: From Ordinary to Extraordinary

January 12, 2020 / Filed Under: Messages, Sermon Notes

Timothy: From Ordinary to Extraordinary

In the Bible it is clear that some of its heroes are particularly gifted: few of us can benchpress a city gate like Samson, or quote most of the Old Testament from memory like Paul. But the young man Timothy, to whom Paul writes two letters included in the New Testament, does not seem to be such a person.

What Does It Mean For God to Be Our Father?

August 10, 2019 / Filed Under: Sermon Notes

What Does It Mean For God to Be Our Father?

In Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith (Galatians 3:26). At a recent men’s breakfast, I shared the following thoughts about what it means for God to be our father. If you are not a father it should bless, humble, and encourage you; if you are a father it should bless, humble, and inspire you to be a better father — a father more like God. Here are at least 15 implications from Scripture to the profound truth that God is our father:

What Meek Family Leadership Looks Like

July 13, 2019 / Filed Under: Sermon Notes

What Meek Family Leadership Looks Like

I shared these thoughts at a men’s retreat a few years ago, learning from the man whom God himself commended in superlative terms for his meekness, even though he was a great leader. In fact, it is his very meekness which contributed to Moses’ great leadership. There are lessons here, then, for every leader — including in the home — so I hope these observations will be a blessing to all fathers and families:

God Is the Ultimate Leadership Role Model

July 11, 2019 / Filed Under: Sermon Notes

God Is the Ultimate Leadership Role Model

The following content came from a January 2009 men’s breakfast at which I spoke. It is a sobering, awe-inspiring, standard-raising thing for God to say to us: “Be holy like I am holy.” The outline below includes just some of the many meditations that we might biblically derive from the call to be God-imitators:

You Are the Body of Christ

July 7, 2017 / Filed Under: Articles, Messages, Sermon Notes

You Are the Body of Christ

The body does not consist of one member but of many (1 Corinthians 12:14). As Paul wrote to the church at Corinth, it seems that some of their members, far from consciously affirming the diversity in their midst, were working against it. One group in the church was suggesting everyone should be just like them—have the same ministry, the same social status, the same convictions about idol-food, the same favorite preacher. Others, who felt inferior, were allowing themselves to drift into inactivity by embracing the lie that they were not useful to the church. Into this unhealthy atmosphere, Paul speaks,

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May 2, 2017 / Filed Under: Sermon Notes

Esau, Joseph, and God’s Good Plans

Text: Genesis 36:1 – 37:36 Introduction Genesis 37, and the chapters that follow, could hardly be a greater contrast to Genesis 36, which brushes quickly past Esau and his descendants. From here, to the end of the book of Genesis, God will share in painstaking detail the life and labors, trials and triumphs, struggles and successes of one man named Joseph. While Esau and many of his descendants did achieve a certain kind of success in their day, God is not impressed with efforts that are at their core rejecting Him as Creator and Lord. On the other hand, God is

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February 21, 2017 / Filed Under: Messages, Sermon Notes

You Will Seek Me

Text: Jeremiah 29:13 I. The Prophecy: How would you react if you read those words? Would you adopt a fatalistic attitude: “what difference does it make then what I do? God has already said what is going to happen, and when; I’ll just sit back and wait for it.” Perhaps a more pertinent question is: how do you read, and respond to, the prophecies and promises of God, when you come across them in Scripture? Are you moved to fatalism or enthusiasm? Do you pitch in the towel or do you pitch in to help? Do you quit working or

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