I saw this quote somewhere and thought, “yes, this is why I need to hear the Gospel preached to me over and over again… I never outgrow it because it addresses my deepest problem – sin!” “The lessons of the cross are ones we never outgrow, for the further we go the deeper we get.” [...]
Archive for the ‘The Gospel’ category
On Hearing the Gospel
April 11, 2011Tempted by Apathy
March 23, 2011More from Joel Brooks… When pastors plead for their congregations to shake off their apathy and finally take action, this attempt to motivate can lead us to abandon the gospel if only for a moment. I have sought the Lord to repent of my own misplaced emphasis on what we need to do to prove [...]
On Itchy Ears
March 22, 2011Joel Brooks on a GREAT danger… I can remember the exact place where I was standing, the music that was playing in the background, and seeing the group still praying and weeping by the side door, when I heard words that knocked me off balance. It was 10 years ago, and I had just finished [...]
On Rob Bell’s Gospel
March 19, 2011Below is Rob Bell’s statement of the Gospel… is there anything missing? It begins in the sure and certain truth that we are loved. That in spite of whatever has gone horribly wrong deep in our hearts and has spread to every corner of the world, in spite of our sins, failures, rebellion, and hard [...]
On Our Main Problem
January 20, 2011“The main problem in the Christian life is that we have not thought out the deep implications of the gospel, we have not ‘used’ the gospel in and on all parts of our life.” — Timothy Keller “The Centrality of the Gospel”
On the Gospel
January 5, 2011R.C. Sproul answers the question, “what is the Gospel?” The Gospel is called the ‘good news’ because it addresses the most serious problem that you and I have as human beings, and that problem is simply this: God is holy and He is just, and I’m not. And at the end of my life, I’m [...]
The Gospel: A New Culture
January 4, 2011A final post in this series on the Gospel (Post 1, Post 2, Post 3). Ray Ortlund describes how God is creating a new culture with the Gospel… Gospel doctrine creates a gospel culture. The doctrines of grace create a culture of grace, healing, revival, because Jesus himself touches us through his truths. Without the [...]
The Gospel: An Ancient Message Centered on Christ
January 3, 2011[To see the previous 2 posts in this series, see Post One and Post Two] The Gospel centers on Jesus the Christ. This can be seen in Matthew’s genealogy found in 1:1-17. Notice the phrase in verse 1 – “Jesus Christ… the son of Abraham”. Matthew is reminding people that Jesus is the fulfillment of [...]
The Gospel: An Ancient Message
January 2, 2011In the previous post, I talked about how the Gospel is not advice, but rather a message. Now let’s explore how the Gospel is, not a new message, but an ancient message. A great example of its ancientness is in Matthew 1:1 and how Matthew emphasizes two names – Abraham and David. A Jewish person [...]
The Gospel: A Message
January 1, 2011The Gospel is not good advice, but rather a message. Advice is something that is given before something happens, but a message is a report about something that has already happened. Consider the illustration of war. When a commander wants to conquer a nation, he calls in military advisors to give him advice on how [...]
