Equipping Saints • Engaging Culture • Examining Claims
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A Narrative Theological Survey of the Sixty-Six Books He Is the Theme: The Christ-Centered Architecture of Holy Scripture • • • Introduction: The Stranger on the Road Two men walked west from Jerusalem on the first Easter afternoon, and they walked in the wrong direction for the right reason. Their hope had died three days…
When exegesis is not your forté. A sermon circulating in Presbyterian circles argues that Jesus committed an ethnic slur in Matthew 15:26, was corrected by the Canaanite woman, and repented by widening his mission — all on the premise that being wrong is not the same as being sinful. This essay dismantles that argument on…
A Theological and Practical Examination of Koinonia in the Modern Church Introduction: Eleven Minutes Stand in the back of almost any evangelical church in America on a Sunday morning and time the emptying of the sanctuary. In most congregations it takes about eleven minutes. The benediction is pronounced, the instrumentalists play something warm and unhurried,…
Delivered by Pastor Joey | East Valley International Church | Gilbert, Arizona Text: Luke 13:31-35 (ESV) Abstract and summary of the pastor’s sermon: The Courageous Compassion of Christ — Luke 13:31-35 This sermon on Luke 13:31–35 casts Jesus as utterly ungovernable by human threats and heartbreakingly unwilling to abandon Jerusalem to its chosen ruin. Pastor…
Lesson 5 The Dramatic Journey of the Bible to Modern Believers Introduction and Purpose of the Study Our study series has been to strengthen the class’s confidence in the Bible as God’s Word before transitioning to a longer “real-life discipleship” study. The aim is not deep theology but historical literacy: helping believers articulate not only…
The Garden’s Oldest Whisper: How LDS Cosmology Repackages Genesis 3:5 ❦ ❦ ❦ I. The Architecture of an Older Whisper Of all the doctrines a religion must defend, the doctrine of God is the one upon which everything else turns. As Latter-day Saint Apostle Dallin H. Oaks once told an audience at Harvard Law School,…
A Theological and Historical Examination from a Traditional Christian Perspective ✦ ✦ ✦ INTRODUCTION There may be no claim more central to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints than the claim that the heavens, sealed shut for nearly two millennia after the death of the apostle John, were torn open again in upstate…
The Doctrinal Architecture That Keeps the LDS Church Alone Introduction: A Quiet Standoff in the World’s Religious Landscape Few religious phenomena of the modern era are as instructive — or as misunderstood — as the relationship between the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church, sometimes still called the Mormon Church) and…
Delivered by Pastor Joey | East Valley International Church | Gilbert, Arizona Text: Luke 13:22-30 (ESV) Summary of Expository Sermon: Luke 13:22–30 Strive to Enter the Narrow Door Opening Review and the Growth of the Kingdom Pastor Joey begins with a review of the prior week’s text (Luke 13:10–21): Jesus heals a woman bent over…