Topic: Sin
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The Justice of God
A three-part study defending God’s justice in the Old Testament, from the law that each dies for his own sin, to the conquest of Canaan, to Jonah’s anger at God’s mercy toward Nineveh.
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The Joy of Forgiveness
Psalm 32 shows the blessedness of the one whose sin is covered, the torment of hidden guilt, and the joy that follows honest confession.
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Enduring God’s Holy Discipline
Psalm 3, written as David fled from Absalom, shows a king under God’s discipline for his sin, who still finds that salvation belongs to the Lord.
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A Psalm of Repentance
Psalm 51, David’s prayer after his sin with Bathsheba, teaches true repentance: a broken and contrite heart that God will not despise.
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Illusion
Optical illusions show how easily our senses are fooled. Fallen man is fooled in a deeper way, cut off from reality until he is brought back to God through Christ.
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Homosexuality
A biblical, unflinching look at homosexuality — what Scripture actually says, why arguments for accommodating it don’t hold up, and the gospel hope that no sin is beyond Christ’s power to forgive and transform.
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The Parable of the Self-Righteous Man and the Repentant Sinner
Two men go up to the temple to pray. One trusts in his own righteousness; the other beats his breast and asks for mercy, and only he goes home justified.
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New Year
Every longing for a fresh start is answered in Christ, who alone makes people new and calls them to put off the old self and put on the new.
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The Forgiver, God
God, who alone has the right and authority to forgive sin committed against himself, forgives sinners only through the just satisfaction of Christ’s cross, not by simply overlooking the debt.
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Far as the Curse Is Found
Genesis 3’s curse – on the serpent, on the woman, on marriage itself – and the Christmas hope that Christ came to make his blessings flow ‘far as the curse is found.’
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Parable of the Treasure
The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, worth selling everything to possess, yet sin captivates the heart before Christ ever does.
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The Parable of the Rich Fool
A man builds bigger barns and tells his soul to take its ease, but God calls him a fool. Life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.