Israel in the Desert God saved Israel out of slavery in Egypt. It would seem like being forced to slavery would be enough to humble a people, but whether it was them believing themselves trapped between the sea and Egypt or upset they haven’t had meat for a while they repeatedly express how they feel…
Month: December 2022
The Sacrifice of Birth
When we think of what Jesus sacrificed to redeem us to himself, we tend to picture the cross. While him offering himself on our behalf to conquer our sin once for all, this is far from the only sacrifice he made for us. He Had Everything To Lose Paul reminds us that what our Lord…
Confronting Reality
Cost of Wisdom Ecclesiastes is a book categorized as “Wisdom Literature”. These are books of the Bible that reveal the way of this world. Rather than tell us how things ought to be done, they record how things are done. It may seem contradictory, then, when the author of this book of wisdom records the…
Who Doesn’t Like Good News?
Preaching in Nazareth Luke 4 begins with the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. Many important lessons can be learned from his experience in the wilderness but it can also distract people from what the rest of the chapter can teach us. Today, I’m going to be discussing the ministry of Christ, which began immediately…
He’s Not Hiding
Gnostic Foolishness From the early days of the church, they had to deal with Gnostic teachings infiltrating their congregations. The Gnostics taught that there was a hidden divine that people could discover only by finding secret meaning that nobody had yet discovered. They were seeking a personal, special experience with a god who must be…