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1. Are You Sitting in the Clouds? (Isaiah 47)
(sermons/2012 Sermons)

Isaiah 47 shows us Babylon as a young woman in her prime thinking that she is invincible -- that she will live forever and that those things that happen to other people would not happen to her.  She pretended ...

2. Be Prepared (Matthew 25:1-13)
(sermons/2011 Sermons)

... it is helpful to know that the Jewish custom was that the bridegroom would show up at an unexpected time for the bride.  It would be unthinkable in our culture for the bridegroom to show up late to the ...

3. Pastor's Green Pastures: October 2011
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

... God” (p.19). It is easy to worry about the influence of the culture on the next generation but we can have an influence on our children that is “just as corrosive of gospel-centered priorities” if we ...

4. Gospel-Centered Family: Becoming the Parents God Wants You to Be
(reading report/Reformed Reading Report)

... the world.  Other respectable idols that we worship include education, career and prosperity.  We worry about the culture's influence without realizing that we can have an influence on our children that ...

5. Continuing to Explain Torah (Deuteronomy 17-26)
(teaching/Copy of Deuteronomy Commentary)

... They are not to imitate the surrounding culture.  Therefore, they are not to burn their children as an offering, practice divination, tell fortunes or interpret omens, be a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium ...

6. Continuing to Explain Torah (Deuteronomy 17-26)
(OT Torah Commentary/Deuteronomy Commentary)

... They are not to imitate the surrounding culture.  Therefore, they are not to burn their children as an offering, practice divination, tell fortunes or interpret omens, be a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium ...

7. Open Your Eyes God (Isaiah 37:8-38)
(sermons/2011 Sermons)

... another then you might be able to defeat another nation.  Hezekiah did not learn to pray from the culture but instead insisted that the God of Israel was the God of all the nations, the only God who created ...

8. In Defence of Women's Ordination
(teaching/Systematic Theology)

... women had more authority in the church than they had ever had in the culture or really ever before Jesus.  They could receive the mark of the covenant (circumcision being reserved for men in the Old Testament) ...

9. True Beauty & Real Men (Isaiah 3:9-4:1)
(sermons/2010 sermons)

... way as we live at a different time in the history of salvation as well as a different culture.  These New Testament principles apply to us: Particularly for women -- "let your adorning be the hidden person ...

10. The Invitation: A Simple Guide to the Bible by Eugene Peterson
(reading report/Reformed Reading Report)

... some of the shorter writings.  This is a book written for everyone in our culture. Critique (strengths and weaknesses): The opening essay is great and makes me want to go out right now and buy and ...

11. Cycle 5: Judgment of Babylon the Prostitute (Revelation 17:1-19:10)
(teaching/Revelation Commentary)

... It was people in the church who were calling upon Christians to compromise with the culture by participating in the idolatrous feasts and sexual immorality in order to do business.  But in the end the ...

12. Hosea 13:16 in a Culture of Life
(teaching/general teachings)

... the next verse) – only works in a culture that values life from the womb. Dashing infants and young children in pieces is a horrific picture. I cannot imagine such an end for my five month old or ...

13. Jesus I Am Resting, Resting
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

... it is a day for resting in God but not a day for idleness and laziness.  Our surrounding culture tends to identify rest with being idle.  To be sure, the Sabbath is a day where we stop (Sabbath means to ...

14. Thanks Be to God for You
(community/Niagara Presbyterian Church)

... at rain in modern American culture, it is a blessing from God. Jesus said, God "makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust" (Matt 5:45).  Indeed, rain ...

15. The Gospel of Leviticus
(teaching/Copy of Leviticus Commentary)

... in Jesus Christ.  And the elect of every nation have the Spirit, setting us apart starting with our hearts.  Demands that Christians preserve a particular culture whether forty years old or four hundred ...

16. The Gospel of Leviticus
(OT Torah Commentary/Leviticus Commentary)

... in Jesus Christ.  And the elect of every nation have the Spirit, setting us apart starting with our hearts.  Demands that Christians preserve a particular culture whether forty years old or four hundred ...

17. The Image of God and the Golden Calf (Exodus 32-34)
(teaching/Copy of Exodus Commentary)

... represented God with a golden calf and worshiped God using that calf.  While this distinction may not apply to the masses, the more sophisticated among them might argue (keeping with the culture of the ...

18. The Image of God and the Golden Calf (Exodus 32-34)
(OT Torah Commentary/Exodus Commentary)

... represented God with a golden calf and worshiped God using that calf.  While this distinction may not apply to the masses, the more sophisticated among them might argue (keeping with the culture of the ...

19. The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
(reading report/Reformed Reading Report)

... Approach): The book is a tool for evangelism. He gets people in his setting in New York city to doubt their doubts. He would be considered conservative by the culture where Scripture is considered conservative ...

20. public statement of faith
(FAQs/General)

... where Scripture is considered conservative by our culture and liberal where Scripture is considered liberal by our culture. In Conclusion: One theological quiz online concluded that I am a Reformed Evangelical.  ...