The Day of the Lord and the Response of God’s People

In light of this Advent season, as we are anticipating the second Advent of our Lord, it is important to note our role in His coming. As mentioned in the last post linking to 2 Peter 3, we are told that we can hasten the day of His coming. This is shocking to [...]

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Sabbath: A Holy Rest

Yesterday’s sermon was on the seventh day of creation.  After preaching the past several weeks from slightly different perspectives on how humanity is to work together to advance the kingdom of God on earth – or cultivate the Garden to make the whole earth the Garden, it is appropriate to discuss sabbath keeping.  Though, I [...]

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Man and Woman and Wholeness

After the service on Sunday I had the opportunity to talk with one member of the congregation. He mentioned that some of what was taught during the sermon actually went against one of the best sermons that he had ever heard. One of my main premises, as I have shown in other posts, [...]

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Fearing the Lord

A friend from seminary has written a very helpful series on what it means to fear God.  Click here to read more…

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The Cultural Mandate & Whatever We Do

This week we looked at Genesis 1:28 (the Cultural Mandate), seeking to find out why it is that man was created. And the answer from the text seems to be to make the whole earth the Garden (the Kingdom of God, the Temple, the Sanctuary, etc). That everything that we have been given: [...]

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Bearing God’s Image in Community

In the sermon this week I mentioned that to rightly bear God’s image is to have proper relationship with the three major relationships of man: man-God, man-man, man-nature.  The image bearer, because he is made in God’s likeness, realizes that he/she was made to work God’s purposes, to worship Him, to do all for His [...]

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Bearing God’s Image

This week we looked at what it means to bear God’s image.  Some of the main points I wanted to get across to the congregation was that we are the image of God, as is all humanity in a general sense.  Realizing that we are the image of God realizing a state of being; it [...]

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Psalm 30: The Prayer (vs 9-10)

     I realize I said that the next entry on this psalm was going to be about the imagery of the psalm, but I have decided to postpone that entry until after we return from NJ.  Instead, I will take a closer look at the short, striking prayer of David in verses 9-10, where David [...]

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Psalm 30: The Song of Resurrection

    This past Sunday, I had the opportunity to preach and lead the service at Oviedo Presbyterian Churchwhere I am an intern pastor - of course Cari helped as well in leading the congregation through the prayer of confession, words of assurance, first Scripture lesson and confession of faith.  The text, Psalm 30, comes out of the [...]

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Bavinck on Human Destiny in Community

     It has been common for people of all different backgrounds to say that humanity has not been created to be brute individuals, but to live in community.  Dutch Reformed theologian Herman Bavinck said this concerning our relationship with one another and how it relates the image of God and our destiny:
“The image of God is much [...]

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