Bryan Chapell spoke on Christ Centered Preaching at the 2009 SMBC Preaching Conference. An integral aspect of his material is that each passage of Scripture relates to Christ through the presence of a Fallen Condition Focus. This is not to say that every passage in the Bible mentions Jesus directly or indirectly, but that as …
Judgement, Hell, Heaven: these are not subjects for the lecture theatre, abstract subjects of intellectual interest to be mastered and then left behind. They are the stuff of eternity: of the Creator; a rebellious creation held to account; of righteous punishment; of undeserved redemption; and, finally, of a never ending life in a new creation …
John Woodbridge’s SMBC Preaching Conference topic was ‘Ten Great Truths from Revivals for Preachers Today’. But such was his obvious love and enthusiasm for church history, that by the time we were done he had provided fifteen. He achieved this in two ways. The first was to provide a survey of revivals and awakenings from …
Jerry Bridges’ latest book is called Respectable Sins. He does not believe that any sin is respectable, or that God views any sin as more or less deserving of His wrath. Rather, he has written the book conscious of the tendency within the Christianity of his own North American culture to forcefully oppose homosexuality, abortion …
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