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Community Renewal (Gospel Renewal, Part 4)
History has proven that the health of a community is often linked to the health of the churches that promote not only evangelism and the discipleship of individuals, but also the common good of the community. Understand how to develop a healthy church to be a sign, instrument, and foretaste of God’s kingdom on earth.
Church Renewal (Gospel Renewal, Part 3)
The key to church renewal is learning how to develop a healthy church by strengthening the corporate renewal dynamics needed for the church to be an effective sign and instrument of God’s kingdom. Understand how to develop a healthy church by strengthening the corporate renewal dynamics.
Personal Renewal (Gospel Renewal, Part 2)
The key to personal renewal is understanding and applying the gospel as God’s ultimate solution to all problems of life. Understand how to experience lasting change through the transforming power of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Vision for Renewal (Gospel Renewal, Part 1)
How does the Gospel renew individuals, churches, and communities? How do we develop a more biblical and practical perspective toward personal, church, and community renewal? Understand why a vision for gospel renewal is a vital part of personal, church, and community renewal.
Paying It Forward (Faith & Work, Part 6)
Although God’s blessing of work is painful because of sin, God’s redemptive work in Christ restores our work to God’s original design. Our work in this life enriches the life to come. So we glorify and enjoy God in our work. Understand why what you do in this life matters in the life to come.
Join God's Cosmic Restoration Project (Faith & Work, Part 5)
Do you know God’s mission will continue through you forever? Understand why God’s mission for us to rule with him establishing his kingdom on earth was never abandoned or revoked.
Called to Rule Now & Forever (Faith & Work, Part 4)
Before you were ever born, God prepared your good works to be a part of his plan for the world. Understand how God calls you to bear his image by reflecting his dominion over all your spheres of influence in the temple of God’s world.
Designed for Influence (Faith & Work, Part 3)
The question is not whether we are shaping the spheres of influence God give us, but how. Understand how God calls you to accomplish his will by making a difference in your spheres of influence, including your work.
Reimaging Your Work as Worship (Faith & Work, Part 2)
The problem is that people normally separate worship and work in a way that God doesn’t. Understand how one of the most significant ways God means for you to worship him is by serving him in and through your work.
Why Your Work Matters to God (Faith & Work, Part 1)
All human work is not just a job but a calling from God. Understand how work is God’s gift to us that needs to be redeemed and restored to its original purpose in our lives by Jesus Christ.
Remember Chinese church leaders in prison, as though in prison with them
On December 9th, 2018, Chinese authorities arrested more than 100 members of Early Rain Covenant Church (秋雨圣约教会) in Chengdu, China. Some members were interrogated at the police station and then released, while others were imprisoned.
What Must I Do To Be Saved? (Evangelism, Part 5)
Jesus, as our Prophet, Priest and King, can make promises of a new record, a new heart, and a new world. And each of those promises contains many other rich promises.
This raises the questions, “How can I appropriate these promises in my life? What is the means by which these promises become a reality in my life? How can I receive God’s forgiveness, a new status, a new heart, and a new world to come?”
Why Believers Won't Be In Heaven Forever (Evangelism, Part 4C)
The resurrection is the Father's amen that the work of the Son is fully acceptable to him. And so, the good news is that he is risen. It's time to celebrate, Satan and death have been conquered.
But like so many things we've seen, the gospel is actually more than that. The resurrection has a much more full meaning than simply, the Father's amen or the validation of the work of the Son.
Why Did Jesus Have To Die? (Evangelism, Part 4B)
When John Stott was asked, “What is the most succinct summary of the Gospel? He said it's the good news of “God's self-satisfaction, through God’s self-substitution.”
The dilemma, the profoundest of problems, was solved. You know how it was solved? God satisfied his own justice by substituting himself. That is the mystery of the gospel.
What You May Not Have Heard on Easter About Heaven
Read some of my favorite quotes on the Resurrection and Heaven from the book "Surprised by Hope" by Tom Wright.
God’s Conditional Love (Evangelism, Part 4A)
As a seminary professor, I would often tell the students that if I preach in their future churches they should know ahead of time what my sermon title will be. It will be
“God's Conditional Love” with a subtitle “How we can only be saved by good works.”
The Way Up is the Way Down: Evangelism (Part 3C)
The degree to which you understand the nature of the fall will be the degree to which you understand the fullness of the nature of the Gospel as well.
What I want to do is talk to you about the threefold ramifications of the fall. This is a biblical theology of the impact of the fall on humanity and on creation.
Why Can't God Just Forgive Like I Forgive? (Evangelism, Part 3B)
Forgiveness to men is the plainest of duties. To God it is the profoundest of problems. You see, there is a duality in God's attributes. God's holy justice is a just judge who must punish sin. God's holy love is a gracious Father who loves to show mercy.
Does Your Gospel Sound Like Jesus’ Gospel? (Evangelism, Part 3A)
When you ask a lot of people “What is the gospel?” they will often respond to you with a 1 Corinthians 15:3 and 4 kind of answer.
My encouragement to you is to see that kind of answer as true but incomplete. This means the gospel is more than simply the gospel events. It's more than simply Christ’s birth, life, death, resurrection, ascension, and promised return.
Why You Cannot Commend God (Evangelism, Part 2C)
The task before us in evangelism is not merely to raise up converts. At its core it is to align ourselves with the ancient message of the Scriptures, calling people to turn from their idols in repentance and place their affections by faith in the one and true only God who makes himself known in Christ.
We're actually not evangelizing merely to raise up converts but to raise up worshipers.