The Christian Life
Ecclesiastes 5:10-6:9
November 5, 2009
Wisdom beckons us to control our insatiable desires and greed and to be content with what we have been given.
ListenProverbs 12:23
October 22, 2009
Is it the case that the wise man always says less than he knows?
ListenBioethics and the Christian Life
October 19, 2009
David VanDrunen discusses his book Bioethics and the Christian Life: A Guide to Making Difficult Decisions.
ListenProverbs 20:1
September 17, 2009
A redemptive historical analysis of the Christian's wise use of alcohol in Scripture.
Listen1 Corinthians 9:19-27
March 26, 2009
We are to follow Paul's example of being willing to forego our Christian liberty in order to gain followers of Jesus.
Listen1 Corinthians 6:12-20
February 25, 2009
The Apostle Paul confronts the sexual sins of the Corinthians with the gospel – their identity as Christians.
Listen1 Corinthians 10:23-11:1
February 12, 2009
In regards to meat sacrificed to idols, Paul is preeminently concerned with the motive of the heart.
Listen1 Corinthians 1:18-2:7
September 18, 2008
The paradox of God's “wise foolishness” and “strong weakness” calls us to look deeply at our heart motivations in light of the gospel.
ListenA Tale of Two Kingdoms
September 1, 2008
As citizens of both kingdoms, we carry out our vocations in the church and the world in distinct ways through distinct means.
ListenWhy Read Fiction?
September 1, 2008
Novel-reading should be enjoyable, but also make us better readers of the Bible and more empathetic human beings.
ListenInaugural Address: Two Kingdoms and the Ordo Salutis
February 19, 2008
The doctrines of the Two Kingdoms and the Ordo Salutis with the doctrinal and ethical distinctions they entail are still critically important for a biblically sound account of the nature of the Christian life and its relation to the Reformed system of doctrine.
ListenJames 5:13-20
November 27, 2007
Prayer mediates the presence of God in our everyday pilgrim faith.
ListenDoesn’t God Want Us to be Happy?
October 1, 2007
God is not abstractly interested in ensuring that we are either successful or unsuccessful; he has far larger plans for us.
ListenThe Law of God in Our World
January 14, 2007
A theological and historical analysis of the second use of the law.
ListenThe Law and Pastoral Ministry
January 14, 2007
How the Law of God informs our understanding of how we help one another grow in Christ.
ListenThe Law and the Sabbath
January 13, 2007
A study of the nature of the Sabbath as both a creational institution and a re-creational institution built into both creation and redemption.
ListenBioethics: New Questions to New Technologies
October 1, 2006
How cultural developments pose ever-new moral challenges.
ListenOur Ally in the War Zone
November 1, 1999
The assurance that comes to us from the Gospel is that no matter how pervasive or powerful the forces or sin, God is victorious in winning salvation for His people.
ListenWorshipping the Lord of the Sabbath
October 1, 1999
As Christians, we need to keep the Lord's Day holy for God still calls His people to a patterned life, now patterned after the completed saving work of Jesus.
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