Posts Tagged ‘Christ’
The Law of the Firstborn: Failure
For almost thirty years, I’ve devoted the month of December to a special series of Christmas messages of (usually) four messages. Occasionally I’ve gotten an early start, beginning in November and almost always ending the Sunday just before New Years Day. Once we were cheated out of two December Sundays by unusual snowfalls. (In Victoria,…
Read MoreOnly Christ Is Enough
A reporter once asked John D. Rockefeller, “How much money is enough?” The world’s first billionaire gave his famous reply: “Just a little bit more.” Rockefeller’s answer strikes a chord in every heart. There is something in us that, even if we were to be given a billion dollars, we would still say, “Just a…
Read More“Concerning Christ and the church”
Last month, I officiated at an outdoor wedding. Whenever a couple tells me they are planning to be married outside, I always tell them they have to have a “plan B.” No one wants to be a part of a wedding ceremony held in a driving rainstorm. This couple did have a back-up plan, but…
Read MoreSUPREMES AND SUPREMACY
When I think of what’s supreme, I think of Taco Bell. Fries Supreme Nachos Supreme Beef Crunchy Taco Supreme Beef Soft Taco Supreme Beef Burrito Supreme Chicken Burrito Supreme Steak Burrito Supreme Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Taco Supreme I could keep going, but you get it. It seems like Taco Bell would have us think…
Read MoreContention at the Cross
One of the reasons we have contention in the church is that we tend to believe what is right in our own eyes. We don’t allow God to dictate to us in His Word; we dictate to Him. Often this dramatically and deleteriously affects church conduct. Once our church begins to take polls and surveys…
Read MoreThe Problem of Psalm 91, Part 1
Psalm 91 is arguably one of the most beautiful chapters in all of the Bible. I remember being drawn to it as a kid when I heard it read publicly at our church. More recently, I was drawn to Psalm 91 after the Coronavirus outbreak. I even preached a sermon on it a couple of…
Read MoreFrontLine November/December 2015
FrontLine November/December 2015 | VOLUME 25 | NUMBER 6 God With Us Brian Collins Bible scholars have long discussed what the major themes of the Bible are. God is, of course, at the center of the Bible. The Bible is God’s revelation of Himself to mankind. In revealing Himself to man God also teaches us…
Read MoreChrist Is Supreme Because He Is Man (Hebrews 2:5–9)
Layton Talbert Have you ever been stumped by a child’s theological question? It is a humbling reminder that sometimes children see things we have not noticed. A query from my daughter prompted a closer examination of the nuanced Christological argument of Hebrews 1–2. In that argument, the quotation of Psalm 8 in 2:6–8 raises the…
Read MoreKoinonia and the Lord’s Table
Andy Efting “Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.” How many times have I heard this phrase repeated by the pastor as we partake of the first element of communion? Certainly hundreds of time by now. It’s so common and familiar that I barely give…
Read MoreChrist at the Tomb of Lazarus
Gary Reimers “When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see. Jesus wept” (John 11:33–35). In this passage John presents the response of Jesus Christ to…
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