That you were saved! That you were once and for all cleansed from your sin. If you really understood what happened to you when Jesus came into your heart, how can you now simply walk away from following him, and
7. He preached the gospel, knowing that he would eventually die because of it. How many of us can say that this describes us? Many newly saved try to go into leadership and ministry after being saved. This is inappropriate. They need to learn the Word first. There is discipline and pre...
Peter simply argued that, just as the eight souls were saved as they passed “through water” on the ark, and the filth from the earth in Noah’s day was removed, so the “passing through” the baptism water symbolically washes away our guilt through Christ’s sacrifice. Jesus was at th...
But the Franks were the first of the barbarian tribes to become Catholics en masse and this helped to pave the way for others to come into the Church and when the forces of the Eastern Emperor Justinian reconquered Italy and North Africa and parts of Spain during the middle part of the s...
A year ago, I preached a sermon at the First Parish in Lexington, where it has been my honour to serve as their minister these last five years, which I think might become my lasting legacy. They continue to speak about “the phone booth sermon.” I began by asking the congregation, “...
Unexpectedly, I seemed to sense my heroes Augustine and Aquinas and thousands of other saints and sages calling out to me from the great ark, "Come aboard! We are really here. We still live. Join us. Here is the Body of Christ." I said Yes. My intellect and feelings had long been ...
It should come as no surprise to you, but I believe love is central to the message of the Gospel. Everything Jesus preached and everything Jesus did was done out of love. The Gospel writer of John tells us that God loved the world so much that he sent his Son to show us a differe...
Peter is not specially named in connection with the appointment of deacons, an important step in the organization of the Church; but when the Gospel was first preached beyond the precincts of Judaea, he and John were at once sent by the apostles to confirm the converts at Samaria, a very...