What is Redemptive-Historical Preaching?

Watch this 2min video on what is redemptive-historical preaching by Dennis Johnson.

Friday Features : Reformed Theology – 2

Lecture #2 : Catholic, Evangelical, and Reformed

In his second lecture Dr. R.C Sproul  moves on to show how Reformed theology is not just a theology but also a systematic theology. At the heart of this systematic understanding of God’s Word is the true knowledge of God.  How one defines sovereignty and how applies that to one’s theology determine all else about what one thinks of God and how He relates to His creatures. Considering this, and how it applies to biblical theology, Dr. Sproul continues this series by examining how Reformed Christianity is Catholic, Evangelical and Reformed in its faith.

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Friday Features : Reformed Theology – 1

Theoblogy is setting apart Fridays for learning the theology and doctrines of the Bible in depth. Friday Feature will have gifted teachers of the faith who will teach core doctrines of the Bible. We live in a day which diminishes the importance of having right theology. Theoblogy wants to see the body of Christ instructed in sound theology. For the next few weeks, Dr. R.C Sproul, gifted teacher of the word will teach us the core doctrines of Reformed Theology. Dr. Sproul examines the distinctive doctrines that set apart Reformed Theology from the many theologies that have developed before and after the Protestant Reformation. Vast majority of Evangelicals rush to a judgment on Reformed theology without taking the time to learn it properly. May this series be an enlightening one.

Lecture #1 :  Introduction

In this lecture Dr. R.C Sproul explains the difference between theology and religion and how Reformed theology is essentially a theology – knowledge of God.

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Why the God of the Bible is Not Same as the God of the Q'uran

Here is John Piper explaining why the God of the Bible and Allah of the Q’uran are not same. 

Treasuring Christ Above All Things

Preaching Christ From the Old Testament

Fred Malone is the pastor of First Baptist Church, Clinton, Louisiana. He received the MDiv degree from Reformed Theological Seminary (1974) and the PhD degree in New Testament from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (1989). He is the author of A String of Pearls Unstrung and co-wrote with Ernest C. Reisinger the introduction to the republished version of Abstract of Systematic Theology by James P. Boyce. Dr. Malone is a Board Member of Founders Ministries, the Midwest Center for Theological Studies, the Institute of Reformed Baptist Studies, and serves on the Administrative Council of the Association of Reformed Baptist Churches in America.

Here is Dr. Malone on the importance of and how to preach Christ from the Old Testament.

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Living Dangerously For the Glory of God

Albert Mohler Jr. serves as the President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Here is an excerpt from a recent convocation message, Mohler preached  at Southern Seminary, entitled "The Year of Living Dangerously". 

By Grace Through Faith or By Faith Through Grace?

When Did "Salvation by grace through faith..." (Eph. 2:9) become, "Salvation by faith through grace..." Mark Kielar of Cross Tv explores this unbiblical understanding of salvation,embraced by vast majority of Evangelicals today. 

Election and Evangelism

It is often argued by some that a firm belief in the sovereignty of God in the election of His people would dampen one’s zeal for evangelism and missions. The question is often framed as, ‘if God has predestined, then why should we do any evangelism?’

Here is Mark Kielar of Cross Tv answering this question.

What Is The Bible All About?

It is of little wonder that most pulpits today lack preaching flavored with the aroma of the gospel, when pastors to a great degree do not have any clue on how to put their Bible together. This is the reason why, at least in some circles of Christendom, preaching is merely an articulation of ethical and moral imperatives and has nothing to do with gospel indicatives. There is no exegetical faithfulness in making distinctions between descriptive and prescriptive passages.  Little or no thought is given to what unifies the whole Bible. Some even question whether there is any such unity, even venturing to speak against the Old Testament.

 We need to rediscover and appreciate with deeper levels of insight the bond between God’s partial and preparatory words of promise spoken through Israel’s prophets and his final word spoken in Jesus, the Son who is the Word (Heb. 1:1–2; John 1:1, 14). The contemporary sense of estrangement of the Old Testament from the New Testament is an anomaly in the history of the church. From the apostolic period through the Church Fathers, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Reformation, the church maintained a hearty confidence that God’s role as the primary author of Scripture, speaking his message infallibly through distinctive human voices, secures the harmony and unity of the Bible’s message from Genesis to Revelation. Admittedly, some like Marcion denied that the Lord who addressed Moses on Sinai is the Father of our Lord Jesus. The church, however, condemned such aberrant repudiation of the Old Testament as contradictory to the teaching of Jesus himself. Others failed to recognize the diversity within the Bible’s unity, especially the fact that the Messiah, in bringing Old Testament promises and institutions to fulfillment, also has transformed God’s covenantal modes of relating to his people. Nevertheless, despite such anomalies in relating the Old Testament to the New Testament, the heartbeat of the church as a whole has coincided with Augustine’s pithy maxim: “The old is in the new revealed, the new is in the old concealed.” [1]

The answer to all of these is given by our Lord Jesus Christ Himself in Luke 24, when He expounded the Scriptures to the disciples on the road to Emmaus and showed how the Law, the Prophets and the Psalms were all about Himself. Pastors would do well if they realize how the whole Bible is all about Jesus Christ. We need preachers who are committed to a redemptive-historical reading of the Bible and expounds its central theme – the person and work of Lord Jesus Christ, the full and final revelation of God.

How would a Christocentric reading of Scriptures look like? How would preaching Christ from all of Scriptures look like?

Here is an interesting short clip of Tim Keller giving us a feel of how Christ is all though out the Old Testament. He thus shows how the Bible is basically not about us, but primarily about Jesus Christ. The video ends with an implication for preachers. May those of us who are called to preach Christ take heed.

 

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[1] Dennis. E. Johnson, Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ From All The Scriptures, Pg 4