[We are reading this morning from God’s Word the remarks of the apostle Paul to the Christians in Corinth, chapter 15 of his first letter vv. 1-20. This is not an account of the resurrection such as you have in the four gospels at the end of…
One of the things people notice when they read the Gospels is that every Gospel writer is adding new information about the events that Easter Sunday morning. You don’t know the whole story until you have put them all together, sort of like t…
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Christianity is a phenomenon in the world – without question the most influential set of convictions in the history of the world – because of the events described in the four Gospels and the early chapters of the book of Acts. Jesus, a…
Tonight I want to encourage you with a piece of apologetics, the defense of the faith. I want to remind you in one specific way, how strong the case actually is for the historical reality of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. I want to encour…
I was surprised the other day to discover that the gym where my wife and I exercise is observing Easter. To be sure, it didn’t close for the entire day, but it did dramatically shorten its hours of operation. I hadn’t thought that in the secular cult…
Read: Ephesians 2:1-10
I want this Easter evening to think with you about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus as a part of our salvation. The question is: what role does the resurrection play in our salvation? We know what the cross achieved. Chr…
The Apostle John, from whose Gospel we have read this morning, was interested in how and why people come to believe in Jesus Christ and commit their lives to him. John was, as we say, an evangelist. As he tells his readers, in the last verse we read,…
No exposition of a text of Holy Scripture tonight. Rather a reflection, an historical reflection on Paul’s autobiographical statement in 1 Tim. 1:15:
“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners – of whom I am the worst.”
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v.18
Paul was a missionary. Since his sudden, dramatic, and utterly unexpected transformation from an enemy of Christianity to its champion – recounted in Acts chapter 9 – he had been traveling all …