The Shepherds’ Conference ended about 10 days ago, but the benefit still lingers.  Over the weekend I read through my notes again, and have excerpted a few sentences that I found particularly helpful.  [Because of the nature of my note-taking, these are likely not exact quotes, so I have refrained from putting quotation marks around […]

Tonight we are taking a look at a great doctrine including the doctrine of the worship of the Holy Spirit. I really want to start a Holy Spirit movement — to worship Him as His person and for His work. He is the member of the Godhead most involved in our lives and the least […]

This is a danger into which many ministries fall. Rather than standing in the center of the message, Jesus is left standing in the shadows. What must be recovered is the preaching of the person and work of Jesus Christ — preaching Christ as the suffering Savior and the full and sovereign Lord. We preach […]

How can I teach sound doctrine and have the people hungering and wanting to be there the next Sunday? (A very helpful session on crafting sermons with word pictures.) These notes are rough, unedited and not a complete transcription of this session. Seminar Session 4.doc

This message is a continuation of the theme that I have done at the last few Shepherds’ Conferences, including the message on Titus 2:7-8 three years ago. Immature young men were common in the church in Crete and Paul was addressing that issue. It was typical male adolescent behavior. Those very same characteristics have become […]

One of the mysteries of life is why the Lord would use the likes of us to do this task of preaching. If we were orchestrating it, we might have angels do the preaching. Everyone would listen to an angel, wouldn’t he? But God assigned human preachers whom He called. Because when an angel showed […]

His position could be summarized from his sermon on Mt. 8:11 — “many shall come from the East and West…” He focused on “shall.” — “How I love God’s shalls!…” “‘Can God make me become to Christ? I tell you ‘yes!’…He makes your will turn around…” “I have never preached this doctrine without seeing conversions, […]

Is the gospel really sufficient for Christian unity, or are there other essential doctrines besides the gospel that we must be in agreement on as well? Who determines how precise we must be in determining the definition of the gospel. The gospel includes penal substitution, but what if you don’t agree? Who decides what constitutes […]

Doctors, coaches, judges aren’t disqualified by failure in the home. There is a man who is running for president who is on his third wife. It’s not a disqualifier, but it is for us. That separates us from everyone in our culture. It is a disqualifier. But also we are to be exemplary as husbands […]

I would like to start a Holy Spirit movement. I have postponed my series on Christ in the OT for three months in order to restore the Holy Spirit to His rightful position. He is the most abused person in the godhead. We are to worship the triune Godhead. Worshipping the one true God — […]

This text may be life and ministry altering. This verse may not be altering; we’re already trying to get to this destination. So why consider it? Because we may be one of only a few churches doing ministry this way and we seem to be among the least successful and it’s easy to question whether […]