All week long, at the beginning of every class session on Galatians, I haev been repeating this statement:When we are wrong about the gospel, two terrible things happen:Sinners are not saved, andGod is not glorified.That’s the heart of the message of Galatians. We can’t afford to be wrong about the gospel.Today when I finished my final …
Yesterday during the second hour I recruited two students to help me explain the difference between the law and the promise in Galatians 3:17-18 because it’s not the easiest concept to understand. What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the p…
This week I finally decided to start Twittering. Note the capital “T” because Twitter refers to the latest and greatest social networking craze. If you Facebook, think of Twitter as the status line at the to of the page that tells what you are doing at the moment. When you Twitter, you write down (in 140 characters, words and spaces) wh…
Today I taught through Galatians 2:11-3:14 to my very enthusiastic class of students at Word of Life Bible Institute in New York. Besides all the obvious benefits of teaching students, I enjoy going through Galatians year after year because this little book (only six chapters—you can read it in 30 minutes or less) is filled with spiritu…
We finished a great first day at Word of Life Bible Institute . . . This morning I taught from 10 AM-1 PM, covering Galatians 1:1-2:10 in three fifty-minute sessions . . . To me it feels bitterly cold here . . . At the moment the temperature is around 5 degrees . . . But the students pointed out that it was -31 last Thursday night . . . We are in P…
By the time you read this we will be on the road again, this time to upstate New York. Our trip takes us from Tupelo to Columbus, Mississippi where we fly to Atlanta, change planes, and then fly to Albany, New York. Someone will pick us up and drive us 75 miles north to Pottersville, home of Word of Life Bible Institute. Tomorrow I start my first o…
We would like to invite you to join the KBM prayer team. Here’s what you need to know. As God continues to open new doors, we feel the need to build a strong base of praying friends who will uphold us in prayer. We know that many people pray for us already. Now we want to go to the next step of giving those friends regular updates so they wil…
In one of his final acts, President Bush designated today as National Sanctity of Human Life Day. In so doing, the president noted that “the most basic duty of the government is to protect the innocent.” And who among us is more innocent and more worthy of protection than the unborn? On January 9 we lost an ardent spokesman for the pro-…
Yesterday we learned more details about the interfaith National Prayer Service that takes place on Wednesday morning at the National Cathedral in Washington. This particular event marks the end of the inaugural events for President Barack Obama. It seems as if the organizers tried to include everyone. Several evangelicals are taking part, including…
You’ve probably heard the famous story of how Jesus cast the legion of demons out of a man who lived in the region of the Gerasenes on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee (Luke 8:26-39). In that story three requests are made of Jesus:The demons request to be sent into the swine . . . Granted.The people of the region ask Jesus to leave . ….