christianity

As with all the Disciplines, you must start journaling before you can experience its value.

The question is not, “Do you have a personal relationship with Jesus?” The question is, “What type of relationship do you have with Jesus? Is He King of your heart? Or will He be the Judge of your heart?”

I am afraid most people will only ever know Jesus as Judge. Refusing to acknowledge His supremacy and authority, most people consciously reject

The philosopher Erik Wielenberg argues for this, what he calls “non-natural non-theistic moral realism.”

The temptation of the Devil was (and is): “Don’t risk yourself on God. Trust your own instincts. Live from within yourself. You need to take control, because you cannot trust God.

Christ’s strength rather than their own provides the only hope of Christian obedience. Such messages are difficult to develop for two reasons: They go against the flow of so much that we are accustomed to hearing in the evangelical church, and they seem to stretch the bounds of precise expository preaching.

In other words, the problem entered in not at the level of doctrine but at the level of culture. It started with personal fear, not with reading a book of bad theology.

When a preacher says, “What we should do” or “What you should believe,” the sermon automatically moves out of the abstract.

We are now in a position to map out the soul in more detail. All of the soul’s capacities to see are part of the faculty of sight.

In expository preaching, unity occurs when a preacher demonstrates that the elements of a passage support a single major idea, which serves as the theme of the sermon.