CRCF—7/5/09
Questions of the Heart #8
Introduction– In one of his books, A.M. Hunter, the New Testament scholar, relates the story of a dying man who asked his Christian doctor to tell him something about the place to which he was going. As the doctor fumbled for a reply, he heard a scratching at the door, and [...]
CRCF—6-14-09
Questions of the Heart #7
Introduction—Video Clip from “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” about temptation—
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc-oDIUU8RY
Did you feel the powerful tension of temptation? Captain Jack captures well the essence of temptation and our propensity to give into it. We are curious—curious as to whether the promises of temptations to give greater freedom, to allow us [...]
CRCF—6/5/09
Questions of the Heart #6
Introduction
VIDEO–(John 8:1ff)
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laPFkFnHGlM&feature=player_embedded]
Yancey: “ . . . in a brilliant stroke Jesus replaces the two assumed categories, righteous and guilty, with two different categories: sinners who admit and sinners who deny. The woman caught in adultery helplessly admitted her guilt. Far more problematic were people like the Pharisees [...]
CRCF—5/31/09
Questions of the Heart #5
Introduction—Clark Pinnock, a Canadian theologian who still calls himself an evangelical, wrote,
“I was led to question the traditional belief in everlasting conscious torment because of moral revulsion and broader theological considerations, not first of all on scriptural grounds. It just does not make any sense to say that a God of [...]
CRCF—5-24-09
Questions of the Heart #4
Introduction—We all know what anger is, and we’ve all felt it.
Anger has many different faces. And I don’t know which of these two are funnier! (Angry Man and Angry Monkey slides). The truth is that when we’re angry, we think about as reasonably as these chickens (Comic slide).
But [...]
CRCF—5/17/09
Questions of the Heart: #3
Introduction—My daughter, Hannah, and a couple of her friends had the rare opportunity to attend one of their Hispanic friends’ 15th birthday celebration—a very big deal for a young lady in that culture . . . and, a very big party! As my daughter and her friends said, “It was the [...]
CRCF—5-3-09
Questions of the Heart: #2
Introduction: I need to take you to an awful place this morning—a dark, cold, nauseating, torturous place. Oh, you’ve been there before. Maybe you’re there right now. You can be there in a crowd, at work, at home—even at church. It doesn’t matter who you are, what you do, how much [...]
CRCF–4/26/09
Questions of the Heart: #1
Introduction–“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” (Leonardo da Vinci)
That’s the idea behind this sermon series. These are YOUR questions-questions that trip you up in your journey of faith, questions that haunt you when you’re all alone, questions that keep you from [...]
Since this is all you wrote, I’m not sure what your questions are about these theological issues. What I’ll do here is simply state my understanding of these issues and give brief Scriptural support.
1. Total Depravity of Man: I do believe that mankind is sinful in all all facets of our life. We are not [...]
I can honestly tell you that not all Christian employers are hypocritical Christians. I work for a man who is full of integrity and honors Christ in a quiet, yet clear, way in his business dealings. I suppose some employers are hypocritical Christians for the same reason you and I are often (and for me, [...]
