Parables of Redemptive Joy
Luke 15:1-10 Well, we are back in Luke 15 this week and this time looking at the theme of redemptive joy in the first two parables. Jesus gives a, as you know, a series of three parables here in Luke 15: the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Lost Son. Three of these parables are directed at the Pharisees and the scribes because of their, well, we just call it a poor reaction to the salvation of sinners rather…
Parables of Redemptive Love
Luke 15:1-10 Today we are entering into one of the best known and most beloved chapters in the whole Bible, which is Luke chapter 15. So you can turn there, you’re not already there. Luke 15. Luke 15 is a series of three parables, as you probably know, the lost sheep, the last coin and the last son, the lost sheep, the last coin and the last son. And together those three parables paint for us a, a precious, precious…
The Future of Evangelicalism
Travis assigned me for this section to speak about the future of evangelicalism. And, a, I’m not a prophet or son of a prophet. I’ve never even managed to make a profit on any investment or business venture that I’ve ever made. But people ask me all the time, “What do you think the next big challenge to the Gospel will be?” And I have learned to decline to make any kind of predictions like that because my stock answer…
Reforming the Evangelical Soul
Well for this afternoon’s text I want to take you to Psalm 25. And I’d like to just begin by reading that text and then we’ll kind of introduce it later, as we get into it, but Psalm 25, not necessarily a particularly familiar Psalm, but certainly one that helps us address the assigned topic of reforming the evangelical soul. And so Psalm 25, a Psalm of David, beginning in verse 1. “To you, O LORD, I lift up my…