Tag: Christ
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“Good News in the Year of the Lord’s Favor”
When Christ first came preaching good news, he inaugurated “the year of the Lord’s favor.” When will this “year” end? When he returns from heaven to usher in the eternal Sabbath rest, the eternal jubilee of rest.
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“The Glory of the Lord has Risen Upon You”
In the midst of our difficult pilgrimage in this present darkness, look expectantly to the brightness of the coming Light of the world, Christ who will bring everlasting righteousness, justice, peace, and glory to all believers who persevere with rejoicing in the faith to the end.
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God’s True Covenant People Are Not Pretenders
If Isaiah were alive today, he would call prosperity gospel preachers and most televangelists and megachurch pastors blind, ignorant, useless, greedy and insatiable dogs, just as he called the false shepherds of Israel “silent dogs” who are blind, without knowledge, and who have never enough.
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Why Obey the Voice of the Lord
In many evangelical churches, pastors invite unbelievers to become Christians so that they may reap material blessings from God. Very few call on the congregation to listen to the voice of God and to seek after righteousness given by Christ.
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A Sinner Before a Holy God: “Woohoo!” or “Woe!”
Isaiah’s encounter with God is unlike that of most evangelicals—unbridled irreverence in sensual hip-swaying, discordant and noisy music, woohooing, shouting and clapping. For Isaiah, a direct encounter with God meant death and judgment. Why would an encounter with God evoke such terror? What did Isaiah see and hear?
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The Servant Sets His Face Like a Flint
“Therefore I have set my face like a flint” (Isaiah 50:7) “When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem†(Luke 9:51) A Palm Sunday Sermon on April 17, 2011 Download PDF sermon Text: Isaiah 50:4-9  • Readings: Isaiah 50:1-11; Luke 9:51-56; Matthew 21:1-9 Today,…
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The Impact of Effective Witness
Therefore,we must never think that there is no justice. In this world, we frequently see that murderers, rapists, plunderers, liars, adulterers, thieves and robbers go scot-free. We become so furious when we see them get acquitted for crimes they obviously committed merely because of a technicality, political connections, or celebrity status. Isaiah 59:17-20; 1 Thessalonians…
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Definition of Chalcedon
The fourth ecumenical Council at Chalcedon in Asia Minor (what is now Turkey) met in 451 to address two major heresies: monophysitism—Jesus’ human nature was obliterated or submersed in the divine nature; and Nestorianism—Jesus was two persons. Chalcedon recognized Jesus’ divine and human natures as unified in one person, “without confusion, without change, without division, without separation.”…
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The Athanasian Creed
This Creed is named after Athanasius (293-373 A.D.), the champion of orthodoxy over against Arian attacks upon the doctrine of the Trinity. Although Athanasius did not write this Creed and it is improperly named after him, the name persists because until the seventeenth century it was commonly ascribed to him. Another name for it is…
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Calvin on the Eucharist
Calvin… said that the Sacrament is much more than just a memorial. It is not just a time when we sit and think good thoughts. It is a time in which we are fed, nourished. We meet the risen Christ. Therefore, it should be frequent. How often should you pray? Once a year? No, we…