It is not either/or proposition:  either we preach personal redemption for the salvation of souls or we seek to establish justice in the gate.  We can and we should seek to do b...

We will continue to see the progressive defeat and rolling back of all the powers of darkness as the gospel is faithfully preached and lived out by God’s people, and as we implo...

"And his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace."Isaiah doesn’t mean that the child to be born would literally be addressed by the...

Jesus is Lord.  This is not just a religious conviction that leads to salvation, though it is that; but it’s also more than that.  It’s a confession of the most basic fact of re...

Chastened and humbled, Jonah is recommissioned to preach to Nineveh, but is angered by the Lord's mercy toward them.

While still in the belly of the great fish, Jonah offers a faith-filled prayer of thanksgiving for deliverance from danger and death.  

Jonah is called by God to go and preach to the city of Nineveh, the heart of the Assyrian Empire, Israel's formidable and brutal enemy.  

The book of Jonah extols the great mercy of God and urges us as his people to desire mercy for others—even our enemies. 

The message of the Minor Prophets is amazingly relevant for modern times.  They addressed the prominent issues of their day in ways that are very instructive for us today, becau...

Nothing foils Satan’s schemes more effectively than a living, vibrant faith in God.  But this faith doesn’t appear spontaneously in the human heart.  Just as there is no spontan...

One of the things we ought to admire most in God is his habit of taking what man intends for evil and using it instead for good (Gen. 45:5-8; 50:20; Rom. 8:28). On the other han...

We begin this message by considering how sin makes us slaves, as Jesus said, "He who commits sin is a slave of sin" (John 8:34).  And then we consider a number of miscellaneous ...

Satan's Schemes include attacking us at the point of our desires, inflaming them into uncontrollable urges. But with God's grace we can develop the virtue of self-control and r...

What is social justice? In this episode we identify several foundational assumptions of the social justice movement and examine their dangerous implications.

The devil's lie included the claim that Adam and Eve would become like God if they ate the forbidden fruit, but they became profoundly unlike him. God wants us to become like h...

Satan’s Schemes: An exposé of his malice, power, and tactics

Sojourners in the Land: Ethical Considerations

Historical Background

The great success of the mission to the Gentiles brought with it a number of problems, including how believing Gentiles were to be incorporated into the body of God's covenant p...

Sin is destructive in two ways. First, it makes us guilty before God, so that we are under the sentence of condemnation. Second, it makes us unlovely people. The good news of th...

The decision of the Council of Jerusalem charted charted the future, not only of the church, but also of the world. It determined whether the gospel was only for the Jews--and t...

The kingdom of heaven expands, as many Jews, proselytes, and God-fearers come to believe.

We have seen the gradual expansion of the kingdom of heaven as the gospel has been received by Jews, by half-Jews (Samaritans), and by non-Jews (Gentiles). Among the non-Jews, w...

Paul and Barnabas begin their first missionary journey, sailing to Cyprus, confronting a false prophet, and leading the proconsul to faith in Christ.

The church at Antioch (the third largest city in the Roman Empire) will become the center of the missionary effort to reach the Gentiles with the gospel.

The book of Acts chronicles the movement of the gospel from Jews, to half-Jews, to non-Jews. In chapter 10, a huge step is taken with Peter preaching for the first time to the G...

The blessings and benefits of redemption are as extensive as the effects of the Fall.