As I mentioned yesterday, I recently shared with my church family how we are to be working together with God on mission (2 Cor. 6:1). In that message, I laid out four evangelistic motivations from 2 Cor. 5. The first evangelistic motivation for Paul is the prospect of eternity. The Prospect of Eternity In the [...]
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4 Evangelistic Motivations for Paul: The Prospect of Eternity
February 1, 2011Working Together with God
January 31, 2011A couple of weeks ago, I preached a message entitled “Working Together with God.” I have long enjoyed meditating on 2 Corinthians 5, but unfortunately, my reading typically ended with 2 Cor. 5:21. It is the next verse that has arrested my thinking of late, and as you probably know, there were no chapter divisions [...]
Where in the world are the Christians?
December 2, 2010So check it. ”The brothers” took Paul by night from the mad mob rioting at the house of Jason in Thessalonica (Acts 17:10). Surely that was a rather traumatic moment. This landed him in Berea where Paul, undeterred by the riots in the previous city, kept doing what he had been doing–preaching Christ. The mob [...]
A Snapshot of Gospel Centrality
September 25, 2009If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied. – 1 Cor. 15:19 This little verse has massive gospel implications. Paul had built his entire life on the gospel. His every ambition has for the advancement of the gospel. The consequences of his commitment to [...]
Missional Prayer Compilation and PDF
December 17, 2008Here are the links from this past mini-series on Missional Prayer: 1. Introductory Thoughts 2. Jesus 3. Early Church (Acts) 4. Paul 5. Concluding Thoughts Anyone who would be interested in downloading a PDF (11 pages) of all these articles can do so by clicking here.
Missional Prayer: Paul
December 15, 2008In the second installment on missional prayer, I discussed how the early church in the book of Acts understood the discipline of prayer in relation to the mission and progress of the gospel. While Acts provides us with a glimpse in the journeys of the Apostle Paul and how prayer impacted his mission, his letters [...]
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