Jesus is the best hiding place and covert from the tempest of an agitated conscience. When the lightning of conviction flashes upon the soul, and guilt with its thundering voice spreads its dark folds over the mind, no where but in Jesus can be found a covert from the bursting storm. To what other refuge [...]
Hell is not cool, PC or even fun to preach; not if you take it seriously. It’s a heavy, sober and genuinely terrifying topic. My Theology Matters series wraps up this week with a sermon on Hell, and I thought I would share why I believe preaching on hell is valuable.
1. It demonstrates the holiness [...]
We only have two more sermons left in our Theology Matters series. This week we focus on Heaven (and the eternal state of God’s people), and next week is on hell. I’m encouraging our people to pick up The Bible and the Future by Anthony Hoekema. With all the nutty theories, crazy books and worse [...]
As a preacher, I think a lot about relevance. That is, why should anyone listen to what I have to say? Why should anybody care? Relevance is an ambiguous word. It could mean more than one thing. It might mean that a sermon is relevant if it feels to the listeners that it will make [...]
This morning I met with some of the men of Redeemer Fellowship. Earlier this month we launched Anthro, our men’s ministry that aims at helping our men to “live, love and lead” the way God has designed. As we have been developing our systems in the church for discipleship, we wanted a process that would [...]
I am the Lead Pastor of Redeemer Fellowship, husband to Jen, Dad to Katherine, Elias and Madeline - and the short, bald guy in Starbucks writing in a Moleskine journal.
