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 [...]
That theology is neglected is easy enough to establish. But that it is abused by those who claim to love it is perhaps a more necessary point to make in my circles. All who love theology, please take note:
[Theology] ought not to be laid on the shelf, as an object of speculation; but it should [...]
James P. Boyce wrote that all who engage in theological study should do so with the proper “spirit.”
1. With reverence for truth, and especially for the truth taught in the Word of God.
2. With earnest prayer for Divine help.
3. With careful searching of heart against prejudice.
4. With timidity, as to the reception and propagation of [...]
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.
