Ministry of the Church (174)
  1. The sneak-peek vision of the world to come, a preview of the Last Day, the Day of the Lord, has already been revealed, declares Peter.
  2. Human history and especially the Christian life have a shape and Jesus is its shaper at every point.
  3. Preaching the end times purposes to solicit and strengthen faith in the Savior of the world who is at the same time the Creator and Re-creator of the world.
  4. There is life after death and, more gloriously, there is life after life after death, the resurrection of the body.
  5. Faithful preachers should remain steadfast in the biblical categories and terminology and preach the reality of death.
  6. Mindful that the pagans’ understanding of death is a finality, Paul says, “NO!” Death is not the end of humanity in God’s new world.
  7. Passover is the story that lets us interpret the full meaning of Christ’s death and resurrection.
  8. In the pursuit of democratizing the worship experience, we go from hearing the voice of God to hearing voices and in some cases hearing our own voice!
  9. The Church is like a beehive: One working for all and affecting all and all working for and affecting one.
  10. Nothing promotes good preaching quite like actually knowing the Word of Truth and delivering it from a disposition of passionate care, commitment through the long-haul, and life spent together with the people of God.
  11. Paul has discovered something to put on the credit side in comparison with which everything else he can imagine can only be a debt.
  12. Throughout the Gospels there is no quality more closely identified by Jesus with the life of His people than humility which echoes His own.
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