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Crucified with Christ!
Tom Pennington's sermon, "Crucified With Christ," from Galatians 2:19-20, emphasizes the core Christian doctrine of justification by faith alone. He sets the stage with Paul's confrontation of Peter, who compromised the gospel by withdrawing from Gentiles due to fear of Judaizers, who insisted on circumcision and Law-keeping for salvation. Pennington explains that Paul's message is clear: salvation is solely "through faith in Christ Jesus," not by "works of the Law." To "die to the Law" (Galatians 2:19) means that believers spiritually participated in Christ's crucifixion. Christ bore the curse and death sentence for our failure to keep the Law, satisfying its demands completely. Consequently, the Law no longer has jurisdiction over us. This spiritual death with Christ results in several transformations: our old self dies, and a new self, a new creation, emerges, empowered by Christ living within. This new life is characterized by "faith in the Son of God," an unwavering, moment-by-moment reliance on Him for both salvation and daily living, acknowledging His personal love and sacrifice. Pennington concludes by urging believers to repudiate all human merit, beware of adding works to the gospel, actively fight against false gospels, and live in constant, personal reliance on Christ.
Lies Christians Believe (Part 3): The Randomness of Everything
Tom Pennington's sermon, "The Randomness of Everything," challenges the widespread cultural lie that life, history, and individual events lack design or purpose. This idea, rooted in naturalism and expressed in popular culture, undermines Christians' confidence in God's character, steals joy in trials, and encourages personal autonomy. Pennington asserts the biblical truth: God is absolutely sovereign, ruling over everything with a wise, eternal plan. His providence meticulously works out this plan in every detail of every life. This includes our birth, circumstances, successes, failures, free decisions, and even seemingly accidental events. God permits and directs the results of sinful choices, using them to accomplish His ultimate purpose: to redeem a people for His Son's glory. For believers, understanding God's sovereignty means submitting to His providence, not assuming personal plans will align with His, and trusting that all things work together for good. This truth fosters a fearless outlook on the future and deep gratitude for God's precise and loving control over every aspect of existence, ensuring nothing happens outside His perfect purpose.
Bible Study for Every Christian (Part 3): Observation
The sermon outlines a systematic, inductive approach to Bible study, primarily focusing on the "observation" stage. It first addresses common challenges, assuring that initial awkwardness, like learning a new habit, will subside with practice, and encourages starting with small, consistent time commitments (15-30 minutes several times weekly). This rigorous study, the speaker insists, is for all Christians. The observation stage involves several critical steps. After recalling prior steps like understanding the big picture, selecting a book, reading its background, multiple readings, identifying paragraphs, and asking questions, new methods are introduced. These include looking up proper nouns (people, places) in Bible dictionaries to grasp contextual details. Crucially, students must analyze grammar using "block diagramming," which visually arranges phrases and clauses to reveal their relationships and the author's intended meaning�a process called exegesis (leading meaning *out* of the text). Following this, a preliminary theme is identified�the paragraph's core message summarized in one sentence. Further steps involve consulting cross-references via study Bibles and concordances to connect the text to broader Scripture, and finally, studying key words. Word studies entail using dictionaries and concordances to explore various senses, connotations, and usages, while carefully avoiding fallacies like the "root fallacy" or imposing personal preferences.
Bible Study for Every Christian (Part 2): Observation
Tom Pennington's "Bible Study for Every Christian Part 2: Observation (Part 1)" emphasizes diligent, accurate biblical study, rejecting allegorical methods in favor of understanding the author's original, singular meaning. He outlines six inductive Bible study steps, focusing this session on Observation (exegesis). This crucial step aims to discover what the original author intended to say by careful analysis. Key to observation is understanding context (historical setting and biblical flow) and content (syntax and words, explored later). Recommended tools include study Bibles, concordances, Bible dictionaries, and topical Bibles, with e-sword.net suggested for free software. The observation process begins by recalling the Bible's big picture: God redeeming a people. Then, choose an appropriate, short, New Testament book and research its background. Read the chosen book multiple times (5-30) in various translations. Identify paragraph and poetry section breaks, as these are the smallest units of unified thought for focused study. Finally, make detailed observations and ask comprehensive questions (Who, What, Where, When, Why, How) of each section. This rigorous, systematic approach, exemplified with Ephesians 2:7, encourages hard work to uncover the deep truths of God's Word, contrasting with a superficial, "fast food" desire for spiritual understanding.
Lies Christians Believe (Part 2): Redefining Morality
Pastor Tom Pennington's sermon, "Redefining Morality, Part 2," challenges the widespread belief, even among Christians, that there are no moral absolutes, but rather, morality is relative. This moral relativism, historically linked to philosophers like Pythagoras and modern evolutionary thought, asserts that right and wrong are subjective, changing with circumstances or individual opinion, and denies any action is intrinsically evil. Pennington argues this lie has severe consequences within the church, leading to the redefinition of sin as medical issues, the reinterpretation of biblical teachings to accommodate sinful behaviors like homosexuality, and the widespread toleration of sin, weakening church discipline and personal accountability. The sermon's biblical teaching affirms that God has revealed an objective, universal, and eternal moral law. This law is founded on God's holy character�His inherent moral purity and complete separateness from evil. God reveals this moral standard through humanity's conscience, the written Word (like the Ten Commandments), and perfectly through the person and life of Jesus Christ. This divine law is objective, applying to all people, cultures, and times, and remains eternal.
Lies Christians Believe (Part 1): No Place for Truth
Pastor Tom Pennington's sermon, "No Place for Truth, Part 1," addresses the cultural lie that "truth is relative," a dangerous idea increasingly permeating both society and the professing church. He notes how figures like George Will and Richard Stengel advocate "embracing uncertainty" and disparage those who claim absolute truth. Pennington traces this back to Post-Modern epistemology, which denies objective truth and universal meaning, in contrast to pre-modern and modern views where truth was considered knowable. This mindset, he argues, leads to lethal consequences within Christianity, such as viewing the Bible as a flexible "trajectory" or mere "narrative" rather than propositional truth. This allows for reinterpreting core doctrines (like women pastors or homosexuality) and promotes the idea that no theological issue is ever truly settled, undermining foundational beliefs. It also shifts emphasis from the mind to feelings, the Bible to experience, and preaching to discussion, fostering inclusivism over biblical exclusivity. In stark contrast, the Bible assumes and teaches that truth is objective, universal, eternal, and propositional, rooted in God's unchanging character and self-expression. Jesus Christ Himself declared, "I am the truth," validating the entirety of God's Word.
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