Category: Preaching

Jesus preached hell

“And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” “And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more than they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.”

There are those who tell us that fear ought to be banished from religion; we ought, it is said, no longer to hold before men’s eyes the fear of hell; fear, it is said, is an ignoble thing. Those who speak in this way certainly have no right to appeal to Jesus; for Jesus certainly did employ, and insistently, the motive of fear. If you eschew altogether that motive in religion, you are in striking contradiction to Jesus. Here, as at many other points, a choice must be made between the real Jesus and much that bears His name today. But who is right? Is Jesus right, pr are those right who put out of their minds the fear of hell? Is fear altogether an ignoble thing; is a man necessarily degraded by being afraid?

-J. Gresham Machen

“The Temptation of Jesus” Summer Series / Ciclo de Verano “La Tentación de Jesús”

Join us for a short preaching series with three area pastors on the temptations of Jesus in Matthew 4. Complete information in English and Spanish in the PDF below. Livestream event info here. And we’ll be singing psalms a capella.

Únase a nosotros para una serie de predicaciones cortas con tres pastores del área sobre las tentaciones de Jesús en Mateo 4. Información completa en inglés y español en el PDF abajo. Información sobre el evento en directo aquí. Y también cantaremos salmos a capella.

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Los Cánones de Dort (1619), 1.1-3

CAPÍTULO PRIMERO

DE LA DOCTRINA DE LA ELECCIÓN DIVINA Y LA REPROBACIÓN.

Enseñanza sobre la predestinación divina, la cual el Sínodo declara que es conforme a la Palabra de Dios, aceptada hasta ahora por las Iglesias reformadas y presentada en varios artículos.

ARTÍCULO I.

Puesto que todos los hombres han pecado en Adán y se han hecho reos de maldición y muerte eterna, Dios no habría hecho injusticia a nadie si hubiese querido dejar a todo el género humano en el pecado y en la maldición, y condenarlo a causa del pecado, según estas expresiones del Apóstol: “para que toda boca se calle y todo el mundo sea hecho responsable ante Dios”; “ por cuanto todos pecaron y no alcanzan la gloria de Dios” (Romanos 3:19,23); y, “porque la paga del pecado es muerte” (Romanos 6:23).

ARTÍCULO II.

Pero en esto se manifestó el amor de Dios: en que Dios ha enviado a su Hijo unigénito al mundo, para que todo aquel que en Él cree, no se pierda, mas tenga vida eterna. (1 Juan 4:9; Juan 3:16).

ARTÍCULO III.

A fin de que los hombres sean traídos a la fe, Dios, en su misericordia, envía mensajeros de esta buena nueva a quienes le place y cuando le place, por cuyo ministerio los hombres son llamados al arrepentimiento y a la fe en el Cristo crucificado. “¿Cómo, pues, invocarán a aquel en quien no han creído? ¿Y cómo creerán en aquel de quien no han oído? ¿Y cómo oirán sin haber quien les predique? ¿Y cómo predicarán si no son enviados?” (Romanos 10:14, 15).

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Radio Covenanter: “Lo antiguo es mejor!”

Un teólogo dijo una vez: “La religión evangélica estadounidense tiene mil millas de ancho y una pulgada de profundidad.” En la misma línea, hay “mucho calor donde hay poca luz.”

¿Te interesa un evangelicalismo más profundo? ¿Más histórico? ¿Uno con mucho calor y mucha, mucha más luz? Escuche Radio Covenanter, emitida desde Bolivia. Y aprenda más de los viejos y mejores caminos de la Reforma Protestante y su rica herencia.

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The Visible Church, the house of God & gate of heaven

“But its a rich mercy that [professing Christians] are dwelling in the work-house of the Grace of God, within the Visible Church, they are at the pool side, near the fountain, and dwell in Immanuel’s land where dwells Jehovah in his beauty, and where are the Golden Candlesticks, and where there run Rivers of Wine and Milk, such are Expectants of Grace and Glory, to such the Marriage Table is covered, eat if they will.”

-Samuel Rutherford

Expository preaching?

R.L. Dabney. “. . . the expository method (understood as that which explains extended passages of Scripture in course) [must] be restored to that equal place which it held in the primitive and Reformed Churches; for, first, this is obviously the only natural and efficient way to do that which is the sole legitimate end of preaching, convey the whole message of God to the people.”

R. B. Kuiper. “In short, expository preaching demands that, by careful analysis of each text within its immediate context and the setting of the book to which it belongs, the full power of modern exegetical and theological scholarship be brought to bear upon our treatment of the Bible. The objective is not that the preacher may parade all this scholarship in the pulpit. Rather, it is that the preacher may speak faithfully out of solid knowledge of his text, and mount the pulpit steps as, at least, “a workman who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.”

Ligon Duncan. “Expository preaching is the faithful explanation and application of the Bible in which the text of Scripture supplies the matter of the preacher’s exhortations rather than the preacher using the text as an occasion for his own expostulations, however helpful they may be.”

Is there a Doctor in the house?

The Doctor exhibited 1891 by Sir Luke Fildes 1843-1927Sickness and death are on all minds. COVID-19 now ravages the U.S., straining if not mocking our knowledge, skill, and preparedness. And on top of the threat to life is tremendous toll this could take on our economy. Lives and livelihoods falter.

But there is a far more fearsome disease. The human heart has been infected by sin, the God-challenging, self-destructive virus we all inherited from our first parents. “And as by one man sin entered the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” This virus is infinitely more lethal than the Coronavirus. And no hospital, no doctor can treat it.

But God, looking down with pity on our sin-sick race, sent His Son. Jesus came as the Doctor, the Master Physician. And He has come to heal you, friend.

Tomorrow morning we will be considering the following passage at our 10:30 livestreamed service. Join us then on our Facebook page. We also have a service in the evening at 7:00.

“And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? Mat But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance” (Matt. 9:9-13).

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