by Expositors Seminary | Jan 5, 2021 | Main Blog Posts
When I was a child my father insightfully prepared for life when he said, “Son, life is hard and then you die.” This “salt of the earth” axiom has proven true over and over again in my life, at least the first half (and I anticipate the second half coming to fruition...
by Expositors Seminary | Dec 22, 2020 | Main Blog Posts
Coming out of the Christmas season, we have been reminded of the reason Jesus came. Sometimes we call it the advent season because we commemorate Christ’s advent (arrival) two thousand years ago. But let us remember that Immanuel is not a one-advent Messiah. The...
by Expositors Seminary | Dec 15, 2020 | Main Blog Posts
One of my favorite Christmas hymns has a line, “Long lay the world in sin and error pining.” The story of Christmas is about God’s promises. The first promise goes back before the manger, before the wise men, before all the prophets—even before sin entered the world....
by Expositors Seminary | Dec 8, 2020 | Main Blog Posts
The concept may seem basic, but the longer I’m a Christian and the longer I’m a pastor, the more confusion I see in practice and hear in popular Christian teaching about the church. Who talks about the church being the bride, the betrothed of Christ with whom He’s...
by Expositors Seminary | Dec 1, 2020 | Main Blog Posts
The Scriptures teach that Christians belong to Christ. He owns those whom he has bought with his own blood, and those who have believed in him are at home in His eternal family. This reality is expressed in various ways throughout the New Testament, but one of the...
by Expositors Seminary | Nov 24, 2020 | Main Blog Posts
As Paul writes to his young pastoral protégés, Timothy and Titus, he gives a sobering list of leadership qualifications that every pastor is very familiar with. First Timothy 3 and Titus 1 are foundational character traits for leadership in the church. In Titus 1:6...
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