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

Exploration, Part 4

by | Dec 14, 2024 | Explorations, Section Seven

Paul returned to the freedom for which Christ has set us free1 (Galatians 5:13-15 ESV). For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For the whole law is fulfilled in one...

Exploration, Part 3

by | Nov 26, 2024 | Explorations, Section Seven

Despite his confidence in the Lord that [the foolish Galatians would] take no other view, and the one who [was] troubling [them would] bear the penalty,1 Paul continued to stress the importance of the distinction between we ourselves [who] eagerly wait for the hope of...

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...