My teaching on "hearing Jesus" in the gospel of Luke. Notes. Audio 1. Audio 2. 

Theology 101: In one column list all passages about the promise of dying and going to heaven. In another column do the same for the promise of bodily resurrection. Now adjust your preaching, teaching, singing, and evangelism accordingly. 

-Dr. Michael Svigel

Theology 101: If you feed the wild beast of temptation with a morsel of “harmless” sin, it will first befriend you, then it will bite you, then it will devour you. - Dr. Michael J. Svigel

"The name of Jesus Christ is hell's terror, heaven's delight, and earth's hope." — Charles Spurgeon

"Justification without sanctification would not be salvation at all." — Charles Spurgeon 

Christians worship a man dying for his enemies. - Timothy Keller

“David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah.” Matthew 1:6 In the genealogy of Jesus, why did Matthew add the words “by the wife of Uriah”? So that the moral wreckage of your ancestry would not hang over you as a hopeless curse. Among other reasons.  - John Piper

Though the world were a million times more enraged; though the fires of persecution were again to be kindled; though my heart were a million times more wicked; though all the temptations of hell were let loose upon me; I know I shall overcome through him that loved me. -Robert M. McCheyne

Paul understood the first and second advents of the Messiah to be for different divine purposes, and these according to his apocalyptic worldview. The sacrificial death of the Messiah in this age reconciles us to God, and we are given peace by the Holy Spirit so that we may stand blameless before the Messiah at the Parousia, thus inheriting the glory of the age to come. - John P. Harrigan

God’s ultimate aim is not that through Christ we might have salvation, but that through salvation we might have Christ. - John Piper

Theology 101: On the Great Day, many aspects of my theology will be proven wrong. I will be humbled by the Word of Truth incarnate. My goal is to live in light of that day. - Dr. Michael Svigel

The chief feature of the New Jerusalem will be the immediate presence of God. God will be in the midst of His people. - RC Sproul

The cross took that which was an abomination to God (the justifying of the wicked, Prov 17:15) and made it His glory.  - Bob Sorge

“And [the Beast] was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them.” (Revelation 13:7)

The call upon all faithful shepherds today is to proclaim the wisdom of the cross. The Church will soon be called to corporately follow the example of their master. - Joel Richardson

When the Messiah, who is our life, appears, then you too will appear with him in glory! THEREFORE, put to death the earthly parts of your nature... - Colossians 3

Eschatology drives discipleship. - John P. Harrigan

“Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.” — John Flavel

So when they had gathered together, they began to ask him, “Lord, is this the time when you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” He told them, “You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.” (Acts 1:6-8) 

 “Jesus’s reply in verses 7–8 does not reject the premise of the question, that the kingdom will one day be restored to Israel. . . . We shall see that throughout Acts the role of Israel remains and the hope is preached as the natural extension of Jewish expectation, the divinely promised hope of restoration” - Darrell L. Bock

Me: "God, I want to know your heart!" God: "Read the scriptures." Me: "Ok, but that's mostly just stuff about Israel and the covenant you made with them!" God: "Yep."  

Thankful for my journey over the last 25+ years as a disciple of Jesus, the Jewish messiah. -Josh Hawkins

My teaching on an overview of Jesus in the Psalms. Notes. Audio 1, Audio 2

If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed. -JC Ryle

"We never ourselves know the sweetness of the ointment in the alabaster box until we have broken it over the head of our Beloved. To live entirely for the Lord is to live indeed, all else is mere existing." -Spurgeon

The Bible and the early Church together both held to a "rational post-tribulational imminence." This is to say they eagerly expected the "birth," of His coming, but in no way did they expect that it would come before the birth pangs. - Joel Richardson

For three years, the disciples followed Jesus around and just stared at Him. Disciples do the same thing still today. We stare at Him constantly because we’re captured by Him. This is why we live in His word.  - Bob Sorge

If our sins are as high as the mountains, the ocean of His atonement is like Noah's flood, covering the utmost summit. - Spurgeon

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end. - John Bunyan 

At the end of the age, we will see that the Lord of peace is also the Lord of justice. - Kevin DeYoung

Christ should never be presented to the unbeliever as the cherry on top of an already wonderful life. - Paul Washer

2022 Fall

To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: man can do the one, God alone can do the other. —C.H. Spurgeon

Theology 101: Christians can barely run churches and ministries without driving them to ruin. And you want to entrust them with a nation?  - Dr. Michael J. Svigel 

...the apostolic kerygma seems succinctly articulated in Hebrews 9:27–28: 

“And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.” 

Just as there is a twofold apocalyptic “appointment” (Gk. apokeimai) for sinful humanity (death and judgment), so also is there a corresponding twofold apocalyptic “appointment” for the righteous Messiah (sacrifice and salvation). Both assume the basic two-age framework which revolves around the eschatological “Day” (10:25). -John P. Harrigan