Today we will be thinking about what is perhaps the most important Christian doctrine. (The word ‘doctrine’ refers to those bodies of truths that make up the content of our faith. For example, the Bible reveals a number of things that are true concerning the Church. Those truths together make up what we would…
Category: God
God the Son: Who he is – The Humanity of Jesus
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is one of the great engineering feats of the 20th century. Weighing more than 380 million kilograms, it stretches over one mile between San Francisco on one end and Merino County on the other. The bridge is suspended from cables several miles in length. Each cable is three…
God the Son: Who he is – The Deity of Jesus
There are lots of differing thoughts concerning Jesus of Nazareth. Some say there was no such person. Robert M. Price of the Jesus Seminar, says, ‘It is quite likely that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual… If you could travel back through time to first century Nazareth, you…
God the Father
Some years ago, at our church’s softball practice, there were a number of small children of some of the players present. One of them, not yet two years old, kept pointing and saying, ‘Daddy!’ It was very cute. The problem was that the man he was pointing to was not his daddy. We Christians frequently…
The Trinity
For a long time I have thought, ‘I need to preach on the Trinity.’ The trigger for that was this: when I was in a church conference and heard a pastor, in his prayer, thank the Father for ‘coming to earth to die for our sins’, and I thought, ‘The Father did not die. The…
The Holy Spirit, Part 1
We have been walking through the book of Acts in recent weeks, wanting both to understand and experience what it means to be the church of Jesus Christ on mission. And right in the first chapter we came upon Jesus’ commission to his followers in chapter 1:8 – And you will receive power when the…
God the Son: Who He is – The Deity of Jesus
There are lots of differing thoughts concerning Jesus of Nazareth. Some say there was no such person. Robert M. Price of the Jesus Seminar, says, “It is quite likely that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual… If you could travel back through time to first century Nazareth, you…
The Trinity
For a long time I have thought, “I need to preach on the Trinity.” The trigger for that was when I was in a church conference and heard a pastor, in his prayer, thank the Father for “coming to earth to die for our sins”. I thought, “The Father did not die. The Son did….