The Gospel & The Religious Mind
An attempt to distinguish the mind of Christ from the ordinary religious mind.

Exploration, Part 2

by | Nov 13, 2024 | Explorations, Section Seven

Paul continued to address the more intimate and pervasive issues of how one believes and how one obeys (Galatians 5:5, 6 ESV). For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor...

Exploration, Part 1

by | Nov 2, 2024 | Explorations, Section Seven

Love is punishment. That’s the lesson I learned quite well from my elders. As I grew I began to recognize that they were consoling one another and exhorting one another not to compromise with the world around them, a psychological world that was preaching a...

Introduction

by | Oct 28, 2024 | Section Seven

I heard a sermon recently that transported me back to the fourth quarter of my seventeenth year. Actually, I heard it twice, but it didn’t click the first time. The sermon was from Genesis 19. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah receded into the fiery...

Luke 8:22-56

by | Oct 8, 2024 | Christ-Centered Preaching, Section Six

This passage was assigned in the preaching course I’m taking. It is extra to any assignment in the book: Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon, 3rd Edition by Bryan Chapell It’s preface is Jesus’ response to those who informed...

Matthew 8:23-34

by | Sep 16, 2024 | Christ-Centered Preaching, Section Six

This passage was assigned in the preaching course I’m taking. It is extra to any assignment in the book: Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon, 3rd Edition by Bryan Chapell It’s preface is Jesus’ response to an unnamed disciple...