Introduction Why Church history? Why history? Why does what happened 1,500 years ago, or 500 years ago, or 50 years matter to us today? Who cares? What’s the point? These are questions and thoughts that many modern evangelicals really think. Maybe some of you kind of feel the same way as we begin this Church […]
Why
Why the Church is in the World: God’s Historical Agenda
But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but […]
Why We Gather
This was a message given at the Reforming Southeast Kansas Conference in Caney, Kansas in October of 2020. Good morning. I want to thank Josh Eaton for putting this conference together and asking me to be a part of it. I could not be more supportive of a theme that the Church needs to be […]
Why the World Hates Christ; John 7:1-9
After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews[a] were seeking to kill him. 2 Now the Jews’ Feast of Booths was at hand. 3 So his brothers[b] said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. 4 For no one works in secret if he […]
Setting up the Sanctuary
Anytime and place throughout history when Christians have been, and are able to gather together openly for corporate worship, it is a happy thing. Personally, I love old church buildings and sanctuaries that were built with great attention to detail. While ultimately, the building a church has or doesn’t have to meet in doesn’t matter, […]