We have begun our study in the Bible’s teaching about the Lord’s Day with a defense of its perpetual obligation. There are many Christians, including Christians of a Reformed type, including in fact ministers in our own denomination, who do not belie…
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v.1
This is not the first time, as we have seen, that Amos depicts Israel as serenely confident of God’s approval without reason to be so. Israel is recklessly at ease, insensible to the real danger of he…
I am very grateful for our evening service! Without it there would be so many things we could not do in our study together of the Word of God. We certainly would not give successive Sundays to a careful study of the obligation of Sabbath-keeping if w…
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v.18
This is the earliest recorded use of the expression “day of the Lord.” It will occur many more times in the prophets of the OT and again in the New Testament, but clearly it is already by this tim…
We have just completed a series of Lord’s Day evening studies on the Bible’s doctrine of work, or a biblical view of a Christian’s occupation. We made the point that the Christian’s life, by the intention of God, is to be a working life. That inten…
After a Sunday away for Pentecost, we return to Amos. The prophet began, you remember, by condemning the nations that surrounded Israel for their sins and promising God’s judgment. All of that, however, was not so much for their sake but to underscor…
Read (with comment): Ecclesiastes 12:1-5
Tonight we complete our series on the Bible’s teaching about our working life. I will follow this with several Sunday evenings devoted to the Sabbath Day as the biblical counterpoise to our life of l…
You expect, and rightly, at Christmas to hear sermons apropos the incarnation and the birth of our Savior. Similarly, on Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday you expect to hear sermons devoted to the suffering, death, and resurrection of the Lord. In the Am…