Gospel Living

A growing sensation in Evangelical circles across the world, Joseph Prince captivates audiences with the message of God's grace.  According to his bio on his ministry website , Prince is a " highly sought-after conference speaker, Joseph has impacted church leaders internationally by preaching the unadulterated gospel of Jesus with boldness. " His success seems to begin with a biblical commitment that God seems to have honored. A founding member of New Creation Church, Joseph initially served as an elder and associate pastor. However, his unanimous appointment as senior pastor in 1990 marked a turning point in the history of the church, which started experiencing phenomenal growth. Under Joseph’s leadership, the church congregation has grown by more than a hundredfold—from about 150 to more...

A key element of biblical teaching that's absent from our churches today is expositional teaching on the Law, the Torah . Possibly one of the causes of this want of the “whole council of God” is that of the false dichotomy—shall we preach Christ and His New Covenant, or shall we commit our preaching to that which has passed away? In other words, the either-or proposition erroneously leads our churches to decide between preaching Law or Gospel.  This dichotomy is false in that it ignores the Law’s inspired profit to us even today (2 Tim 3:16–17) and that it fails to divine part of God’s intent in the Law—to lead His people to the glories of the Gospel. Without the Law, the good news has no meaning.  Consider this from Bridges: [The Law’s] cognizance of every thought, imagination, desire, word, and work, and its uncompromising demand of absolute and uninterrupted obedience, upon pain of its everlasting penalty—convince the heart of its guilt, defilement, and wretchedn...

Here are my final two parts to the series on how Christians should read and apply the Old Testament.  If you haven't read/listened to the first part, it is commanded that you do so now . Some words of caution before beginning: as this was to originally be a two-part series, there are only notes for two parts.  Also, there was a problem recording the third and final part, resulting in a longer re-recording of the session with a small reduction in audio quality. Notes for Parts 2 and 3 ( PDF ) Audio for Part 2 ( MP3, 36:19 ) Audio for Part 3 ( MP3, 51:02 )

Here is the first part of a message series I delivered at church.  How do we as NT believers read and apply the Law and the rest of the OT? Both in my notes and in the audio, I reference this being a two-part series.  However, a change in the service schedule coupled with my inability to trim down the material (you know I can be long-winded) turned this into a three-parter. The first part was delivered November 28. Audio (MP3, 1 hr) Notes (PDF)

Bill VanDoodewaard gave a talk on this centuries-old explanation of the interplay of Law and Gospel in the life of the believer. Bill VanDoodewaard - Marrow Lecture from Puritan Reformed on Vimeo . (HT: The Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary blog )