Sermon for Sunday, February 21st, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Psa 14:1-7 ESV] 1 To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good. 2 The LORD looks down from …
Sermon on Exodus 5:1-23 – “Bricks Without Straw” Read More »
Sermon for Sunday, February 14th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 4:18-31 ESV] 18 Moses went back to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt to see whether they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go …
Sermon for Sunday, February 7th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 4:1-17 ESV] 1 Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you.’” 2 The LORD said to him, “What is …
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Sermon for Sunday, January 31st, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Isa 59:21 ESV] 21 “And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of …
Sermon for Sunday Evening, January 24th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Scripture reading: [Act 1:1-5 ESV] 1 In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, 2 until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the …
“Living God, Living Hope” Jan 24th, 2021 THE GOD OF THE BIBLE is called the Living God. While the nations worshipped dead idols made of stone or silver or gold, the people of God worshipped the Living God, who could not be fashioned in any image nor carved in any statue. The living God made …
Sermon for Sunday, January 24th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 3:1-22 ESV] 1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. …
Sermon for Sunday, January 17th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 2:11-25 ESV] 11 One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. 12 He looked this …
Sermon on Exodus 2:11-15 – “The Maturing of Moses” Read More »
Anthropopathism and God’s Desire of Salvation By Douglas J. Douma and Benjamin Wong THESIS: The doctrine of divine anthropopathism provides a sufficient though not necessary reason for denying the well-meant offer; the teaching that God desires the salvation even of the reprobate. A disagreement regarding the extent and nature of God’s desire of salvation which …
There are no Briggs-ites, no Janssen-ites, no Fosdick-ites, and no DeWulfites. When liberals are removed from the church, it is done so under the category of heresy. Having no ground to stand on, they are unable to produce movements. Error, like a parasite, cannot exist on its own, but requires a large church organization to …
Sermon for Sunday, January 10th, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 2:1-10 ESV] 1 Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. 2 The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine …
Sermon for Sunday, January 3rd, 2021 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 1:15-22 ESV] 15 Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, 16 “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on …
Sermon on Exodus 1:15-22 – “The Virtue of Disobedience” Read More »
One of Francis Schaeffer’s greatest contributions was to warn Christians about what we now call Postmodernism, that truth-denying relativistic philosophy which in the last fifty years has had considerable and increasing sway over society. Schaeffer did well to warn us of it. For at least two hundred years the rationalistic philosophy of Modernism plagued the …
Christian ministers and theologians commonly note that our obligation to obey the magistrate ends whenever morality is concerned. That is, while the Christian is to “be subject to the governing authorities” (Romans 13:1), this is limited by the necessity to “obey God rather than men.” (Acts 5:29) But recently I’ve been considering whether there are …
Sermon for Sunday, December 27th, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 1:1-14 ESV] 1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan and Naphtali, …
Sermon on Exodus 1:1-14 – “God’s People, Bottomed Out” Read More »
For the fourth consecutive year I’ve kept track of the books that I’ve read. My favorite non-fiction books this year were Marsden’s biography of Jonathan Edwards, and Marvin Kamp’s history of the revival of the Dutch church in “1834.” My favorite non-fiction book was George Eliot’s “Silas Marner.” The average rating of books has increased …
Sermon for Thursday, December 24th, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) PASTORAL PRAYER Lord, most heavenly Father, it is in the name of Jesus Christ and through the Holy Spirit in us that we come to you in prayer this day. You are most glorious, eternal, and full of wisdom. You have …
Sermon for Sunday, December 20th, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Isa 45:14-17 ESV] 14 Thus says the LORD: “The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you and be yours; they shall follow you; they shall come …
Sermon for Sunday, December 13th, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Dan 9:24-27 ESV] 24 “Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both …
Sermon for Sunday, December 6th, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Mal 4:1-5 ESV] 1 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the LORD of hosts, …
Sermon for Sunday, November 29th, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Deu 19:15-21 ESV] 15 “A single witness shall not suffice against a person for any crime or for any wrong in connection with any offense that he has committed. Only on the evidence of two witnesses or of …
Sermon for Sunday, November 22nd, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Exo 6:2-3 ESV] 2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the LORD. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not …
Bavinck, A Critical Biography by James Eglinton, 2020, Baker Academic, 450 pp. This will be something short of a proper review as I intend to only make a few short comments. Try as I might I can’t find myself interested in Herman Bavinck. (I only read this book because my brother, who knows the author, …
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Sermon for Sunday, November 15th, 2020 at First Presbyterian Church at Unionville, NY (BPC) Old Testament reading: [Pro 22:1-6 ESV] 1 A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. 2 The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the Maker of them …
Sermon on John 20:30 – 21:25 – “Jesus’s Third Appearance” Read More »
