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20 illustrations for sermon preparation
This architectural image was so revered in both pagan and Christian societies of the Roman Empire that centuries later, when Basilicas became models for Christian worship, the bishop's chair occupied the apse in the very position of the praetor's judgment...
First, the *phobos* (fear) of preparation for judgment itself.
By virtue of Christ's death and resurrection, Christians obtain the grace of a new life.
First, the gospel illuminates what was previously hidden.
Consider any discipline of human knowledge: a man who disbelieves the principles of astronomy or geology yet pretends to teach these sciences will find his teaching rendered useless by his own heartlessness.
First, Christians are objects of *special Divine regard*.
This guilt universally carries a sense of demerit.
This love proves reasonable, soul-satisfying, and soul-ennobling in degree beyond all earthly affection.
Life and immortality have been brought to light through the gospel alone; without Christ's revelation, humanity possessed only feeble conjecture regarding the afterlife.
The gospel ministry operates as God's appointed means for reconciling sinners to Him.
we may be accepted of Him" (2 Corinthians 4:9), he did not mean he laboured to atone for sin—that would be treason against Him who "by one offering hath for ever perfected them that are sanctified" (Hebrews 10:14).
Being "in Christ" involves three dimensions of spiritual reality.
The Apostle compares gospel ministers to earthen vessels—common, fragile, ordinary clay—yet holding within them the supreme treasure of Elohim's redemptive truth.
Life is not blind accident but the deliberate operation of the great Workman, and perceiving Elohim's purpose becomes our shield against sorrow, doubt, despondency, and fear.
There exist two worlds: the world of sense and the world of spirit.
He marks authentic ministry by three essential characteristics, each a renunciation of corrupted practice.
In 1873, Phoebe Knapp sat at her piano in Brooklyn and played a new melody for her friend Fanny Crosby. "What does this tune say?"...
On August 29, 1831, Michael Faraday sat in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution in London, wrapping copper wire around opposite sides of an...
If only we possessed unbounded wealth, we imagine, how generously we would serve mankind.
In 1660, a traveling tinker and lay preacher named John Bunyan was arrested near the village of Lower Samsell in Bedfordshire, England, for conducting a...
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