Category: God
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Dr. Kevin DeYoung | The Impossible High Jump
In Philippians 3, we are found in Christ with a righteousness not our own, but one that comes through faith in Christ. Here’s an analogy. I think I gave this a few years ago. I’ll do it quickly, but it helps me think about this. It’s a track-and-field analogy. You were all hoping! The high…
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Dr. Kevin DeYoung | The Missing Word: Justification in Eastern Orthodoxy
We’re actually reading as a staff, as a faculty, at Reformed Theological Seminary this semester. We pick a book every semester, and I attend those meetings whenever I can. This semester, we’re reading a book by Timothy Ware called The Orthodox Church. It’s an introduction to Eastern Christianity. It was originally written in 1963 and…
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Voddie Baucham | Degrees of Love
Love is always special, but the degree to which the love is special is determined by the magnitude of the one doing the loving. A dog loves its owner because the owner feeds it, and children love their daddy because he is their father. A wife’s love is different because she had a choice. However,…
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Voddie Baucham | The King’s Acknowledgment
There is a great story of the musical piece Handel’s Messiah. When Handel finally finished and presented this piece of music, the King of England was in the audience. When the orchestra began to sing the Hallelujah Chorus, the king stood up, acknowledging the kingship of Christ. When the king stood up, everybody else stood…
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Voddie Baucham | NASCAR races and enormous crowds
We live in a country that calculates its debt, I think, in zillions now. It’s not that big of a number to us, 1,000. To the first century mind, that’s huge, almost incalculable. We have sporting events that have this many people. NASCAR has races with more people than this. So we don’t even have…
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Voddie Baucham | The cavalry arriving just in time
The Lamb doesn’t have to get on his horse and ride, so to speak. He just is. The cavalry doesn’t have to hear about what’s happening and somehow try to get there just in the nick of time. God is never late because He never has to get anywhere. He just is. Voddie Baucham –…
