The Biblical Man: Intro
What’s Your Story? Sermon. Mark Driscoll. Mars Hill Church. 1 Tim 1:12-20. Life Inventory Chart. Supplement to Sermon. Biblical Man Intro...
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Grace in the Arts: AN EVANGELICAL MUSICAL GENIUS: “J.S.B.: S.D.G.” by ARTHUR L. FARSTAD Editor Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society Dallas, TX I. Prelude J.S.B. The initials “J.S.B.” are some of the greatest in all musical history, and certainly in the top two or three in great Christian music. The J is for Johann, German for John. The S is for Sebastian (pronounced ze-BAH-styahn), the name of a Roman soldier who became a martyr by being “darted” to death by his company for being a Christian.1 The B is for Bach, German for creek or brook. Were it not...
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The Greeks had two words for “life”: bios and zoë. Bios represents the biological and individual sense of life, the life that pulsates within any one organism. Zoë, on the other hand, is shared life, life that transcends the individual and allows participation in a broader, higher, and richer life. In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis remarks that mere bios is always tending to run down and decay. It needs incessant subsidies from nature in the form of air, water, and food, in order to continue. As bios and nothing more, man can never achieve his destiny. Zoë, he goes on to...
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Five Solas Capstone (.ppt – click to download) Soli Deo Gloria! For the Glory of God Alone The Reformation reclaimed the Scriptural teaching of the sovereignty of God over every aspect of the believer’s life. All of life is to be lived to the glory of God. As the Westminster Shorter Catechism asks, “What is the chief end of man? Man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever.” This great and all consuming purpose was emphasized by those in the 16th and 17th Centuries who sought to reform the church according to the Word of God. In contrast to the...
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Glorifying God (1 Corinthians 10:23-11:1) Pastor Mark Driscoll (Click here to download the sermon audio) Also: The Happiness of God: Foundation for Christian Hedonism – John Piper (click to download) “Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because...
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